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Humanities

Here are entered works on the branches of learning regarded as having a cultural character, including literature, the arts, history, philosophy, religion, etc.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Learning and scholarship

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• Humanities -- Abstracting and indexing
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• Humanities -- China
• Humanities -- Computer network resources
• Humanities -- Congresses
• Humanities -- Digital libraries
• Humanities -- Electronic information resources
• Humanities -- Forecasting
• Humanities -- History
• Humanities -- Interactive multimedia
• Humanities -- Louisiana
• Humanities -- Methodology
• Humanities -- Periodicals
• Humanities -- Philosophy
• Humanities -- Research
• Humanities -- Social aspects
• Humanities -- Study and teaching
• Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Humanities -- Technological innovations
• Humanities -- United States
• Humanities -- Zimbabwe
• Arts
• Digital humanities
• Information storage and retrieval systems -- Humanities
• Philosophy
• Science and the humanities
• Subject headings -- Humanities

• Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014), by Martin Paul Eve (PDF files with commentary at cambridge.org)
• The Humanities in American Life: Report of the Commission on the Humanities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), by Commission on the Humanities (HTML at UC Press)
• Indiana University Humanities Series (partial serial archives)

• Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, by Eugene Garfield (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Samuel Presner, and Jeffrey T. Schnapp (PDF at MIT Press)

• Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by John W. White and Heather Gilbert
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF with commentary at Purdue
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2011), by Alison Babeau (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Samuel Presner, and Jeffrey T. Schnapp (PDF at MIT Press)
• Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006), by American Council of Learned Societies (PDF with commentary at acls.org)
• Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by John W. White and Heather Gilbert
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF with commentary at Purdue
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Australian Humanities Review (1996-) (full serial archives)
• Humanities (published by NEH; issue content online 1997-) (partial serial archives)
• Inflexions (2008-) (full serial archives)
• Oklahoma Humanities (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Humanities Council, 2008-) (full serial archives)
• Culture Machine (1999-) (full serial archives)
• Studies in Arts and Humanities (2015-) (full serial archives)
• Thought (Fordham University quarterly, 1926-1992) (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings of the British Academy (partial serial archives)
• Daedalus (partial serial archives)
• The Northwest Missouri State College Studies (partial serial archives)
• Forum (University of Houston) (partial serial archives)
• The Durham University Journal (partial serial archives)
• Queen's Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• Hermathena (partial serial archives)
• The Director (1807) (full serial archives)
• The Intercollegiate Review (full serial archives)
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (full serial archives)
• Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (partial serial archives)

• Terror, Theory and the Humanities (2012), ed. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)
• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Hegel and the Sciences of Spirit (Geisteswissenschaften) (published as a supplement to Brolly, November 2023), by Mădălin Onu (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Sidonie Smith (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gregory L. Ulmer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), ed. by Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier (HTML with commentary at CUNY)
• Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Pedagogy (c2012), ed. by Brett D. Hirsch (multiple formats with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)

• Debates in the Digital Humanities (enhanced electronic edition, 2013), ed. by Matthew K. Gold (Javascript-dependent HTML at CUNY)

• Vox Populi: Essays in the History of an Idea (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by George Boas (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Memorie: Studi dal Vero (in Italian; Rome: Forzani, 1901), by Guglielmo De Sanctis
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some pages may be washed out
• Mémoires: Collection in 8o (Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts) (partial serial archives)

• From Digital to Distant Diplomatics: Digital Diplomatics 2022 (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, c2025), ed. by Daniel Luger and Georg Vogeler (PDF and EPub files at V&R eLibrary)
• Intelligent Computing for Cultural Heritage: Global Achievements and China's Innovations (London and New York: Routledge, c2025), ed. by Xiaoguang Wang, Marcia Lei Zeng, Jin Gao, and Ke Zhao
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
• People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), ed. by Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier (HTML with commentary at CUNY)
• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2018), ed. by Elizabeth M. Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont (HTML with commentary at CUNY)
• Digital Sound Studies (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), ed. by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien (PDF at oapen.org)
• Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Patrik Svensson (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by John W. White and Heather Gilbert
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF with commentary at Purdue
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• Debates in the Digital Humanities (enhanced electronic edition, 2013), ed. by Matthew K. Gold (Javascript-dependent HTML at CUNY)
• A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), ed. by Susan Schreibman, Raymond George Siemens, and John Unsworth (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
• Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), ed. by Koraljka Golub and Ying-Hsang Liu
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
• Documentary Making for Digital Humanists (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Darren R. Reid and Brett Sanders (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History (Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing, 2018), ed. by E. Thomas Ewing and Katherine Randall (multiple formats with commentary at VT Publishing)
• Interdisciplining Digital Humanities (2014), by Julie Thompson Klein (HTML at digitalculture.org)
• Language, Migration and Multilingualism in the Age of Digital Humanities (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023), ed. by Ignacio Andrés Soria, Sandra Issel-Dombert, and Laura Morgenthaler García (PDF and EPub with commentary at De Gruyter)
• The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, c2022), by Martin Paul Eve (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2022), by Ian Milligan (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge)
• Introduction to Cultural Analytics and Python (c2021), by Melanie Walsh (interactive illustrated HTML at github.io)
• Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Jennifer Edmond (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices (New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2021), ed. by Dene Grigar and James Christopher O'Sullivan (PDF with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
• Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), ed. by Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Jim Ridolfo (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, ed. by Kenneth M. Price and Raymond George Siemens (HTML at mla.org)

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