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• Indiana University Social Science Series (partial serial archives)
• Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law (partial serial archives)
• The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science (partial serial archives)
• The Challenge of Facts, and Other Essays (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; et al, 1914), by William Graham Sumner, ed. by Albert Galloway Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley
  • Volume I (Robespierre; Carlyle; Byron; Macaulay; Emerson): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Vauvenargugs; Turgot; Condorcet; Joseph de Maistre): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (On Popular Culture; The Death of Mr. Mill; Mr. Mill's Autobiography; The Life of George Eliot; On Pattison's Memoirs; Harriet Martineau; W. R. Greg: A Sketch; France in the Eighteenth Century; The Expansion of England; Auguste Comte): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A New Calendar of Great Men; John Stuart Mill: An Annversary; Lecky on Democracy; A Historical Romance; Democracy and Reaction; Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org
• Democracy and Social Ethics (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Jane Addams
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Harvard
• Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (double issue only one published; mostly in German; Paris, 1844), ed. by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx (multiple formats at Google)
• Essays on Important Subjects (London: A. Millar, 1755), by John Trenchard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1922), by Max Weber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hints Toward Reforms, in Lectures, Addresses, and Other Writings, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
• The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men Versus the Man: A Correspondence Between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H. L. Mencken, Individualist (New York: H. Holt, 1910), by Robert Rives La Monte and H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations From Early Historic Time to the Present (New York: Woodhull, Claflin and Co., 1871), by Victoria C. Woodhull (page images at Harvard)
• Practical Moral and Political Economy: or, The Government, Religion, and Institutions Most Conducive to Individual Happiness and to National Power (London: E. Wilson, 1828), by T. R. Edmonds
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Principia: or, Basis of Social Science (second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1876), by Robert Joseph Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Social Statics, Abridged and Revised; Together With The Man Versus the State (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Herbert Spencer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social Statics: or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed (London: J. Chapman, 1851), by Herbert Spencer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Square Deal (Allendale, NJ: The Allendale Press, c1906), by Theodore Roosevelt, ed. by Horace Markley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• African and European Addresses (1910), by Theodore Roosevelt, contrib. by Lawrence F. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1924), by Max Weber, contrib. by Marianne Weber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mankind in the Making, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True System of Human Society (1854), by Adin Ballou (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social and Philosophical Studies (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., c1906), by Paul Lafargue, trans. by Charles H. Kerr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of Walter Bagehot (with memoirs by Hutton; 5 volumes; Hartford, CT: Travelers Insurance Co., 1889), by Walter Bagehot, ed. by Forrest Morgan, contrib. by Richard Holt Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Creative Experience (originally published 1924), by Mary Parker Follett (page images at Toronto)
• Social Rights and Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies (2 volumes; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Leslie Stephen
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text

• Foreign Social Science Bibliographies (full serial archives)

• Conducting Research Surveys via E-Mail and the Web (2002), by Matthias Schonlau, Ronald D. Fricker, and Marc N. Elliott (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Introduction to Cultural Analytics and Python (c2021), by Melanie Walsh (interactive illustrated HTML at github.io)

• 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)

• The Encyclopedia of Social Reform: Including Political Economy, Political Science, Sociology, and Statistics, Covering Anarchism, Charities, Civil Service, Currency, Land and Legislation Reform, Penology, Socialism, Social Purity, Trades Unions, Woman Suffrage, Etc. (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1897), ed. by William Dwight Porter Bliss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform: Including All Social-Reform Movements and Activities, and the Economic, Industrial, and Sociological Facts and Statistics of All Countries and All Social Subjects (new edition; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1908), ed. by William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph M. Binder
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• From Albert Salomon: Essays on Social Thinkers (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2019), by Albert Salomon, ed. by Duffy Graham and Robert Jackall (PDF at Tennessee)

• Correlation and Causality (revised electronic edition, 2004), by David A. Kenny (PDF at davidakenny.net)

• Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (c2013), by Gabriele Bammer (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Introduction to Finite Mathematics (second and third published editions, with an electronic fourth edition in preparation), by John G. Kemeny, J. Laurie Snell, and Gerald Luther Thompson (PDF files at Dartmouth)

• In the Fire of the Heart (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1906), by Ralph Waldo Trine (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Threefold State: The True Aspect of the Social Question (London: Allen and Unwin, c1920), by Rudolf Steiner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Looking Forward: Outlines for Discussion and Action (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1937), by Harry W. Laidler, contrib. by Dirk J. Struik, Joel Seidman, Charles A. Engvall, John Martindale, and Robert O. Menaker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies (partial serial archives)
• ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (2002-) (full serial archives)
• Culture Machine (1999-) (full serial archives)
• Mens en Maatschappij (in Dutch) (partial serial archives)
• Reason (full serial archives)
• The Public Interest (1965-2005) (full serial archives)
• Annual Review of Law and Social Science (partial serial archives)
• Daedalus (partial serial archives)
• İstanbul İktisat Dergisi (parial serial archives)
• Limn (2010-) (full serial archives)
• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (partial serial archives)
• Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (partial serial archives)
• Social Analysis (partial serial archives)
• Studies in Arts and Humanities (2015-) (full serial archives)
• The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (partial serial archives)
• American Journal of Sociology (partial serial archives)
• Zambezia (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings of the British Academy (partial serial archives)
• Social Research (partial serial archives)
• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (partial serial archives)
• American Behavioral Scientist (partial serial archives)
• Political Research: Organization and Design (partial serial archives)
• New Statesman (partial serial archives)
• Political Science Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (full serial archives)
• The American Journal of Politics (full serial archives)
• Social Scientist (partial serial archives)
• The Yale Review (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences Morales et Politiques (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Ekonomisk Tidskrift (partial serial archives)
• Queen's Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• The American Magazine of Civics (partial serial archives)
• De Economist (partial serial archives)
• Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Social Forces (partial serial archives)
• Anales de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencas Sociales (journal published by Universidad de Buenos Aires, in Spanish; 1902-1919) (full serial archives)
• The Journal of Social Forces (full serial archives)

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