Click here to connect to the ACLS Humanities E-Book.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. HEB is an online collection of books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These are works of major importance, from 250 publishers, that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.

The HEB has eight major goals:

1. Encourage historians to plan and write e-books.
2. Encourage scholarly presses to experiment with, to consider the issues involved in, and to develop in-house expertise for, electronic publishing.
3. Streamline production and reduce costs.
4. Develop infrastructure for archiving scholarly texts for the long term.
5. Work with others to ensure that the commercialization of intellectual materials does not hinder the exercise of scholarly communication and fair use.
6. Work closely with scholarly journals and learned societies to ensure that history e-books are properly reviewed and promoted.
7. Encourage libraries to purchase and make widely available historical works of high quality within their emerging e-collections.
8. Actively encourage the acceptance of e-books within the historical profession for the purposes of hiring, tenure, promotion, and related professional concerns.

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All books are listed in TOPCAT, with a link to the online book.

Searchable and browseable. No additional software is needed.

Formerly known as the History E-Book Project.

A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web.

To link directly to an e-book in this database, use the permanent URL listed at the bottom of the page for the book. Example:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04250.0001.001

Remember to add the proxy prefix for off-campus access: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=

Example:

http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04250.0001.001