If you need help with accessing or using any of these eBook databases, contact your Academic Subject Librarian
For more subject specific guidance, visit the relevant Library Subject guide.
The following eBook databases are particularly relevant for College of Arts students. All the databases provide full-text access. Please see the individual database descriptions below for more information about access and content.
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Books in this collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Project Muse provides full-text, high quality articles for the humanities and social sciences from over 120 publishers
Click on the eBook databases for an overview or introduction to a particular humanities subject or theme.
Comprehensive and accessible essays covering literature and classics, philosophy, religion and culture, and music. Includes useful reference material, chronologies and reading lists.
Oxford Handbooks are a series of books covering Classical Studies, Law, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion which provide students with authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. They offer a critical examination of the progress and direction of debates as well as a foundation for study and research.
Each Oxford Handbook offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research. Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in the discipline give critical examination of the progress and direction of debates, providing scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives.
From economics and politics to literature and philosophy, you can discover more than 1,000 Oxford Handbooks on a wide range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and law. With new books and articles published online every month, you can be certain that you are accessing the most current information you need for your research.
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The eBook databases in the column below provide you with full-text online access to a wide range of texts (histories, poetry, plays, letters and more) from a range of places and time periods.
The library subscribes to a full collection of digitised English and European books dating from the very beginning of printing to the end of the eighteenth century.
The Patrologia Latina and Acta Sanctorum contain a wide range of texts in Latin.