ACLS Humanities E-Book

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Collection of 2.200 full-text ebooks in the Humanities

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Description:

The ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Humanities Ebooks contains a collection of over 2,200 full text titles within the fields of Humanities. The selected titles are recommended by publishers, scholars and librarians of the discipline.

The ebooks are either XML-encoded titles or scanned page-image versions. This database also provides access to reviews of works in the collection either in full text or through links to other databases.

Subject areas include:

Area Studies:
- Australasian/Oceanian
- Byzantine
- Canadian
- Caribbean
- Jewish Studies
- Native Peoples of the Americas
- Women’s Studies
Historical Studies:
- African
- American
- Asian
- Comparative/World
- Eastern European/Russian
- Economic
- European
- Latin American
- Law
- Medicine
- Methods/Theory
- Middle East
- Science/Technology
Other fields include:
- Archaeology
- Art and Architectural History
- Dance and Performance History
- Film and Media Studies
- Folklore
- Literature
- Musicology
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Religion
- Sociology

Special HEB Series:

American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum
Collected Writings of Walt Whitman
College Art Association Monographs
Gutenberg-e
John Harvard Library
Records of Civilization

Features:

Proximity search
XML-encoded titles have hypertext links and search features
Some XML titles have enhanced media features: illustrations, charts, sound and video

Maximum users:

Unlimited

Vendor:

ACLS

Provided by:

UMKC

Description updated:

June 9, 2009 -- FEN

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