Saturday 1 September 2007

American Council of Learned Societies eBooks

ULS now subscribes to the ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection - an online collection of over 1500 books "of high quality" in the humanities. Member of Learned Societies worked together to choose the books. Fields currently covered include: Area Studies in Australasian/Oceanian, Byzantine, Canadian, Caribbean, Native Peoples, and Women's Studies. Historical Studies include African, American, Asian, Comparative/World, Eastern European/Russian, Economic, European, Latin American, Legal, Methods/Theory, Middle East, and Science/Technology. HEB also encompasses the fields of Art History, Literature, Political Science, and Religion. Forthcoming fields include Archaeology, History of Medicine, and History of Philosophy.
The collection . Searching and browsing are easy, and although this is not a legal database, searching for Law or Legal pulls up titles that may be of interest to law faculty, for example: Islamic law in the modern world (1959); African women & the law: historical perspectives (1984); Lawyers against labor : from individual rights to corporate liberalism (1995).
More info about the HEB database is available on the ACLS website.

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