This resource has changed its name and location to ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Click here to connect to the former History E-Book Project site.

See the description for the new ACLS Humanities E-Book.

The ACLS History E-Book (HEB) Project is an online collection of over 1000 books of high quality in the field of history, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These are works of major importance to historical studies—books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. (See title list.) The History E-Book Project, which launched in September 2002, now adds approximately 250 books annually to the collection, as well as a carefully selected list of new XML titles that have the potential to use web-based technologies to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways.

The History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.

The History E-Book Project 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.

(From the website.)