Research Guides: eBook Collections: Arts and Humanities

General Humanities eBook Collections

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ACLS Humanities EBook This link opens in a new window
An online collection of high quality ebooks in the humanities. The books included have been recommended by scholars as significant contributions to their respective fields.
American Fiction, 1774-1920 This link opens in a new window
Encompasses prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I, including thousands never before available online.
Art and Architecture E-Portal This link opens in a new window A project of Yale University Press, this database is an evolving collection of eBooks that feature important works of scholarship in art and art history! Many are older publications that were initially in print format, but this database of eBooks offers the ability to search images, create citations, highlight, read offline, and more! One perk is the ability to research exhibition catalogs online which are traditionally only in print format.
Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
Contains ebooks, essays, encyclopedias, and images to allow the researcher to explore how clothing has influenced and been influenced by society. Covers a wide range of time periods and cultures.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents. More info here: https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/
The New Oxford Shakespeare This link opens in a new window Presents a new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. The project's scope, depth, and vision provide a platform for the future of Shakespeare studies.
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window Searches across Oxford Handbooks. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.Topics include Archaeology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Sociology.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online This link opens in a new window
Annotated primary texts by writers active between 701 and 1901, plus Roman and Greek authors, including Aristotle, Austen, Bentham, Catullus, Dickens, and Donne through to Plato, Virgil, and Wordsworth.
Past Masters This link opens in a new window Past Masters is a collection of primary source full-text editions in philosophy. The series includes collections in the history of political thought and theory, religious studies, education, German studies, sociology, the history and philosophy of science, economics, and classics. The publisher acquires and develops definitive editions of the full corpora of the seminal figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
An online library of freely accessible eBooks that are not currently protected by copyright in the United States and so in the public domain.