This subject guide serves as a starting point for your search for scholarly resources in the area of Humanities & Social Sciences. Resources listed here include those accessible through our library and on the web. It enables you to access from one point various resources such as books, e-journals, e-databases, theses and other web-based resources. (Please remember that this is not an exhaustive list. You will find many additional resources in the library, such as Reference Books).
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Resources Available at the Central Library
E-Journals
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- 291
- 14th Century English Mystics Newsletter
- 19th-Century Music
- 4OR
- 4S Review
- A.I.H.P. Notes
- AA Files
- AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik
- AATSEEL Journal
- AAUP Bulletin
- ABA Journal
- ABA Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law
- ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law
- Ábaco
- Aboriginal History
- ACA Newsletter
- Academe
- Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Academy of Management Perspectives
- Acadiensis
- Accountability in Research
- Accounting Research Journal
- Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
- Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum)
- Acta Analytica
- Acta Classica
- Acta Criminologica
- Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Acta Linguistica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Acta Linguistica Academica
- Acta Linguistica Hungarica
- Acta Musicologica
- Acta Oeconomica
- Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Acta Sociologica
- Acta Turistica
- Administrative Law Bulletin
- Administrative Law Review
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Administrative Theory & Praxis
- Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
- Advances in Autism
- Advances in Mental Health
- Advances in Sex Research
- Advocate of Peace through Justice
- AEA Papers and Proceedings
- AEA Papers and Proceedings
- Aegyptus
- Aequatoria
- Aevum
- Afers Internacionals
- Africa Development / Afrique et Développement
- Africa Spectrum
- Africa Today
- Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
- Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente
- African Affairs
- African American Review
- African Arts
- African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review
- African Economic History
- African Economic History Review
- African Historical Studies
- African Issues
- African Journal of Political Economy / Revue Africaine d'Economie Politique
- African Journal of Political Science / Revue Africaine de Science Politique
- African Journal of Reproductive Health / La Revue Africaine de la Santé Reproductive
- African Languages and Cultures
- African Languages and Cultures. Supplement
- African Music
- African Review of Money Finance and Banking
- African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie
- African Studies Bulletin
- African Studies Review
- Afro-Hispanic Review
- Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry
- Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity
- Agni
- Agricultural History
- Agricultural History Society Papers
- Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant
- AJAS
- AJIL Unbound
- AJS Review
- ALA Bulletin
- Al-'Arabiyya
- Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies
- Alei Sefer: Studies in Bibliography
- Aleph
- Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
- All Ireland Review
- Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
- Ambit
- American Academy Notes
- American Advocate of Peace
- American Annals of the Deaf
- American Anthropologist
- American Antiquity
- American Art
- American Art Illustrated
- American Art News
- American Bar Association Journal
- American Bar Foundation Research Journal
- American Catholic Studies
- American Economic Association Quarterly
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
- American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
- American Economic Review
- American Economic Review: Insights
- American Educational Research Journal
- American Ethnologist
- American Humor
- American Imago
- American Indian Law Review
- American Indian Quarterly
- American Jewish Historical Quarterly
- American Jewish History
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- American Journal of Archaeology
- American Journal of Chinese Studies
- American Journal of Education
- American Journal of Irish Studies
- American Journal of Mathematical & Management Sciences
- American Journal of Numismatics (1897-1919)
- American Journal of Numismatics (1989-2017)
- American Journal of Political Science
- American Journal of Sociology
- American Journal of Sociology
- American Journal of Theology & Philosophy
- American Law and Economics Review
- American Libraries
- American Literary History
- American Literary Realism
- American Literary Realism
- American Literature
- American Marketing Journal
- American Music
- American Music Teacher
- American Periodicals
- American Philosophical Quarterly
- American Political Thought
- American Presbyterians
- American Quarterly
- American Scientist
- American Secondary Education
- American Sociological Review
- American Speech
- American Studies
- American Studies International
- Amerikastudien / American Studies
- Amtliche Berichte aus den Königlichen Kunstsammlungen
- Amtliche Berichte aus den Preuszischen Kunstsammlungen
- Anabases
- Analecta Hibernica
- Anales de la literatura española contemporánea
- Anales de la narrativa española contemporánea
- Anales de la novela de posguerra
- Análise Social
- Analysis
- Anatolian Studies
- Ancient Mesoamerica
- Ancient Society
- Anglican and Episcopal History
- Anglo-Saxon England
- Angol Filológiai Tanulmányok / Hungarian Studies in English
- Animal Biotechnology
- Annalen der Philosophie
- Annalen der Philosophie und philosophischen Kritik
- Annales de Géographie
- Annales de la Société d'ethnographie française
- Annales de l'inséé
- Annales d'Économie et de Statistique
- Annales d'histoire économique et sociale
- Annales d'histoire sociale
- Annales historiques de la Révolution française
- Annales révolutionnaires
- Annales sociologiques. Série A. Sociologie générale
- Annales sociologiques. Série B. Sociologie religieuse
- Annales sociologiques. Série C. Sociologie juridique et morale
- Annales sociologiques. Série D. Sociologie économique
- Annales sociologiques. Série E. Morphologie sociale, langage, technologie, esthétique
- Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales
- Annali della R. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia
- Annali della R. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Filosofia e Filologia
- Annali della R. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Lettere, Storia e Filosofia
- Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia
- Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Lettere, Storia e Filosofia
- Annali di Economia
- Annali di scienze politiche
- Annali d'Italianistica
- Annals of Dyslexia
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers
- Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
- Annuaire-Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de France
- Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California
- Annual Report of the Dante Society, with Accompanying Papers
- Annual Reports of the Dante Society
- Annual Review of Anthropology
- Annual Review of Anthropology
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
- Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
- Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
- Annual Review of Law and Social Science
- Annual Review of Linguistics
- Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
- Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Annual Review of Political Science
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Annual Review of Sociology
- ANQ : A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews
- Anthropologica
- Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Anthropological Linguistics
- Anthropological Quarterly
- Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures
- Anthropologie
- Anthropologischer Anzeiger
- Anthropology & Education Quarterly
- Anthropology Design Series
- Anthropology Leaflet
- Anthropology Now
- Anthropology Today
- Anthropology, Memoirs
- Anthropos
- Antike Kunst
- Antike Welt
- Antipodes
- Antitrust Law Journal
- APLA
- APLA Newsletter
- Appalachian Journal
- Applied Anthropology
- Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
- APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology
- AQ: Australian Quarterly
- Aquaculture Economics & Management
- Arabica
- Arbeit und Recht
- Archaeologia Austriaca
- Archaeological Method and Theory
- Archaeological Reports
- Archaeology
- Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania
- Archaeology in Oceania
- Archaeology Ireland
- Archaeology of Eastern North America
- Archäologie in Deutschland
- Archeologia Classica
- Architectural Engineering and Design Management
- Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
- Archiv für Rechts- und Wirtschaftsphilosophie
- Archiv für Religionspsychologie / Archive for the Psychology of Religion
- Archival Issues
- Archives de Philosophie
- Archives de sciences sociales des religions
- Archives de sociologie des religions
- Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age
- Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science
- Archivio di Filosofia
- Archivio Storico Italiano
- Archivum Historiae Pontificiae
- Arethusa
- Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics
- Arizona and the West
- Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
- Arms Control Today
- Ars Islamica
- Ars Orientalis
- Arthurian Interpretations
- Arthuriana
- Artibus et Historiae
- Arts Asiatiques
- Arts et traditions populaires
- ASEAN Economic Bulletin
- Asia Journal
- Asian Affairs: An American Review
- Asian Education and Development Studies
- Asian Ethnology
- Asian Folklore Studies
- Asian Journal of Social Science
- Asian Perspective
- Asian Review of Accounting
- Asian Social Work and Policy Review
- Asian Survey
- Aslib Journal of Information Management
- Atlantis
- Audio Visual Communication Review
- Aula
- Aula-Historia Social
- Australasian Historical Archaeology
- Australasian Journal of American Studies
- Australasian Journal of Engineering Education
- Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
- Australian Archaeology
- Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology
- Austrian Studies
- AV Communication Review
- Avian Pathology
- Ayer
- B.B.A.A. Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana
- Background
- Background on World Politics
- Béaloideas
- Before I Forget...: Journal of the Poyntzpass and District Local History Society
- Behavior and Philosophy
- Behavioral Disorders
- Behaviorism
- Behaviour & Information Technology
- Beit Mikra: Journal for the Study of the Bible and Its World
- Belfagor
- Berkeley Journal of Sociology
- Beyond Behavior
- Biblica
- Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes
- Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
- Biennial Review of Anthropology
- Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
- Bioacoustics - The International Journal of Animal Sound and its Recording
- Biography
- Biological Rhythm Research
- Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews
- Bird Study
- Black American Literature Forum
- Black Camera
- Black Women, Gender + Families
- Blackfriars
- BMS: Bulletin of Sociological Methodology / Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique
- Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana (1937-1948)
- Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana (1973-1979)
- Boletín de Antropología Americana
- Book History
- Books Abroad
- Boom: A Journal of California
- boundary 2
- Bridges
- Brigham Young University Studies
- Britannia
- British Educational Research Journal
- British Food Journal
- British Journal for the History of Mathematics
- British Journal of Educational Studies
- British Journal of Political Science
- British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
- Brookings Papers on Education Policy
- Brookings Trade Forum
- Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs
- Bruniana & Campanelliana
- Buddhist-Christian Studies
- Built Environment
- Bulletin de la Société de
- Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
- Bulletin d'études orientales
- Bulletin of Latin American Research
- Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors
- Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
- Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
- Business & Professional Ethics Journal
- Business Ethics Quarterly
- Bustan: The Middle East Book Review
- BYU Studies Quarterly
- Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz
- Cahiers du Monde russe
- Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure
- Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie
- Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
- Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- Chance
- China Agricultural Economic Review
- China Finance Review International
- Christianity and Literature
- Church History
- Church History and Religious Culture
- CIM Journal
- Cinéaste
- Cinema Journal
- Cinémas d'Amérique Latine
- Cités
- City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action
- CLA Journal
- Classical Antiquity
- Classical Philology
- Climate and Development
- CoDesign
- Collection and Curation, prev. Collection Building
- Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
- Combustion Theory and Modelling
- Comparative Literature
- Conjunctions
- Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
- Contemporary Literature
- Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
- Creative Nonfiction
- Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía
- Critical Inquiry
- Critical Philosophy of Race
- Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
- Critical Survey
- Criticism
- CrossCurrents
- Dalhousie French Studies
- Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society
- Data Technologies and Applications prev. Program
- Development Policy Review
- Diacritics
- Dialectica
- Diderot Studies
- Digital Library Perspectives
- Disaster Prevention and Management
- Discourse
- Dispositio
- Drugs and Alcohol Today
- Econometric Reviews
- Econometrica
- Economica
- Ecoscience
- Edith Wharton Review
- EDPACS: The EDP Audit, Control, and Security Newsletter
- Education + Training
- Egitto e Vicino Oriente
- El Ciervo
- Emotion Review
- Emu - Austral Ornithology
- Engineering Management Journal
- Engineering Studies
- English Teaching: Practice & Critique
- Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
- Environmental Forensics
- Environmental Hazards
- Environmental Technology Reviews
- Ergonomics
- Erkenntnis
- ES: Processes & Impacts
- ES: Water Research & Technology
- Esprit
- ETC: A Review of General Semantics
- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
- Ethics
- Ethics and the Environment
- European Journal of Engineering Education
- European journal of English Studies
- European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering
- European Journal of Information Systems
- Fairy Tale Review
- Fire Technology
- Folklore
- Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
- Franciscan Studies
- Francofonia
- French Forum
- Gender & Society
- George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies
- Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication prev. Library Review
- Glotta
- Gnomon
- Grand Street
- Gregorianum
- Grial
- Harvard Review
- Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
- Hermathena
- Hermes
- Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning
- History News
- History of Education Review
- History of Philosophy Quarterly
- History of Religions
- HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
- Housing, Care and Support
- Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal
- Human Dimensions of Wildlife
- Human Ecology
- Human Relations
- Human Studies
- Humanistica Lovaniensia
- Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS)
- Huntington Library Quarterly
- Hydrological Sciences Journal
- Hypatia
- IEEE Engineering Management Review
- IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje
- IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
- IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics
- IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
- IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Education
- IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
- IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
- IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
- Illinois Classical Studies
- Illness, Crisis & Loss
- Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
- Indian Growth and Development Review
- Indian Literature
- Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
- International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
- International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies
- International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
- International Journal of Accounting & Information Management
- International Journal of Comparative Education and Development
- International Journal of Crashworthiness
- International Journal of Development Issues
- International Journal of Educational Management
- International Journal of Emergency Services
- International Journal of Energy Sector Management
- International Journal of Environmental Health Research
- International Journal of Ethics and Systems prev. Humanomics
- International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education
- International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
- International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
- International Journal of Green Energy
- International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
- International Journal of Health Governance
- International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare
- International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
- International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
- International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
- International Journal of Managerial Finance
- International Journal of Manpower
- International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education
- International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
- International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment
- International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing
- International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics
- International Journal of Phytoremediation
- International Journal of Production Research
- International Journal of Public Leadership
- International Journal of Public Sector Management
- International Journal of Rail Transportation
- International Journal of River Basin Management
- International Journal of Social Economics
- International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
- International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
- International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
- International Journal of Sustainable Energy
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
- International Journal of Ventilation
- International Social Science Journal
- Internet Research
- Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
- Irrigation and Drainage Systems
- Italianistica: Rivista di letteratura italiana
- Italica
- Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics
- James Joyce Broadsheet
- James Joyce Quarterly
- Journal for Multicultural Education
- Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
- Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies
- Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research
- Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
- Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics
- Journal of Applied Accounting Research
- Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics
- Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
- Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
- Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
- Journal of Business Analytics
- Journal of Children's Services
- Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies
- Journal of Criminal Psychology
- Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Journal of Elementary Science Education
- Journal of Enterprise Information Management
- Journal of Financial Economic Policy
- Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
- Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting
- Journal of Human Values
- Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
- Journal of Intellectual Capital
- Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
- Journal of International Education in Business
- Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research
- Journal of Knowledge Management
- Journal of Mental Health
- Journal of Popular Film and Television
- Journal of Post Colonial Writing
- La Bibliofilía
- L'Actualité de l'histoire
- L'Année épigraphique
- L'Année sociologique
- L'Antiquité Classique
- Les Études philosophiques
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Minerva
- New Media & Society
- Osiris
- Philosophy of Science
- Psychology and Developing Societies
- Records Management Journal
- Science Education
- Science Scope
- Social Studies of Science
- Society & Natural Resources
- Sociological Forum
- Sociological Inquiry
- Sociology of Education
- Stress and Health
- Synthese
- Technology and Culture
- The Academy of Management Executive
- The Academy of Management Executive (1993-2005)
- The Academy of Management Journal
- The Academy of Management Review
- The Accounting Historians Journal
- The Accounting Review
- The Advocate of Peace
- The African Archaeological Review
- The African Music Society Newsletter
- The Agni Review
- The Agricultural History Review
- The American Advocate of Peace and Arbitration
- The American Archivist
- The American Art Journal
- The American Catholic Historical Researches
- The American Catholic Sociological Review
- The American College Bulletin
- The American Economic Review
- The American Economist
- The American Historical Magazine
- The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly
- The American Historical Review
- The American Jewish Year Book
- The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts
- The American Journal of Comparative Law
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- The American Journal of International Law
- The American Journal of Legal History
- The American Journal of Philology
- The American Journal of Psychology
- The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures
- The American Journal of Theology
- The American Magazine of Art
- The American Poetry Review
- The American Political Science Review
- The American Review of Soviet and Eastern European Foreign Trade
- The American Scholar
- The American Sociologist
- The Analysts Journal
- The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- The Annals of the Hitotsubashi Academy
- The Annual of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem
- The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
- The Annual of the British School at Athens
- The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics
- The Antioch Review
- The Arthur Miller Journal
- The Arthur Miller Society Newsletter
- The Artist: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts, Crafts and Industries
- The Athenian Agora
- The Australian Quarterly
- The Baffler
- The Bangladesh Development Studies
- The Bell Journal of Economics
- The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science
- The Biblical Archaeologist
- The Black Scholar
- The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- The British Journal of Social Work
- The British Journal of Sociology
- The British Journal of Sociology
- The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes
- The Brookings Bulletin
- The Brookings Review
- The Brown Journal of World Affairs
- The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
- The Business History Review
- The Classical Journal
- The Classical Quarterly
- The Comparatist
- The Concord Saunterer
- The Conradian
- The Cormac McCarthy Journal
- The Edgar Allan Poe Review
- The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
- The Georgia Review
- The Harvard Theological Review
- The Hudson Review
- The Iowa Review
- The Journal of Adult Protection
- The Journal of Geology
- The New Atlantis
- Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
- Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science Online
- Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
- Transportation Letters (The International Journal of Transportation Research)
- Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
E-Databases
Books
The Central Library uses Universal Decimal Classification system to classify books.
A call number is a number used to identify and locate books in the library. It includes the Classification number, the Author Code (first three letters of the Author’s name), and the book's Accession number (serial number).
For example-> Economics : theory and practice by Welch, Patrick J.
330 is the Class Number for Humanities & Social Science
WEL-E is the Book Number
22392 is the Accession Number
The library has a sizable collection of books and reading material on biology. These books are classified under the following Class Numbers:
- 101 Philosophy
- 159 Psychology
- 165 Epistemology
- 2 Religion
- 301 Sociology
- 330 Economics
- 336 Indian Financial System
Note: To locate the books on Humanities & Social Sciences, please search the Library Web OPAC page.
OER – Open Educational Resources (Freely Available)
E-Journals
E-Books
ETD Resources (e-Thesis)
- Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (NDLTD)
- Shodhganga : a reservoir of Indian Thesis
- World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository
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