LibGuides: Databases & Resources: Humanities & Social Sciences

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Publicly Available Resources - Humanities

ERIC (free) This link opens in a new window
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. ERIC is also available via EBSCO.
Making of America (MoA) This link opens in a new window
Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Subjects include education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
Oxford Text Archive This link opens in a new window
A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources, from the Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford.
Perseus Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Classics-related materials including ancient texts and translations, secondary sources, maps, and images.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Over 60,000 free eBooks (available to read online or download EPUBs or Kindle eBooks). Includes classic literature and other sources in the public domain.
SSRN - Humanities This link opens in a new window
Find research in the Humanities. SSRN's eLibrary provides access to research from multiple specialized networks. Most papers are available to download.

Humanities Commons
Repository of open access scholarship and teaching materials in the humanities.
Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
OLH publishes open access scholarship in peer-reviewed academic journals across all humanities disciplines.

JSTOR

CSM does not have a subscription to JSTOR, a database that includes more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Use this database to search for materials to request via Interlibrary Loan (ILL), use "free reads" with a personal account, and find additional open access content.

JSTOR (Home Page)
Browse or search JSTOR's collections including journals, books, images, documents, reports, and more.
Personal Accounts on JSTOR
Learn how to register for a personal account and use your "free reads".
Open Access on JSTOR
Open Access journals, eBooks, images and media, research reports, community collections, and JSTOR Daily publications.
JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Daily is an online publication that provides scholarly context (historical, scientific, literary, political, and otherwise) for current events. Articles also include links to free, publicly accessible research for additional reading.

Publicly Available Resources - Social Sciences

SSRN - Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Find research in the Social Sciences. SSRN's eLibrary provides access to research from multiple specialized networks. Most papers are available to download.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Virtual library (created by the Office of Justice Programs) of criminal justice information to support research, policy, and program development. Includes bibliographic information and abstracts for more than 230,000 collection resources and 80,000 online materials.
Brookings Institution
D.C.-based nonprofit public policy organization that conducts research related to societal problems at the local, national, and global level.
Urban Institute
Nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity.
Pew Charitable Trusts
Global nongovernmental organization that funds data-driven, nonpartisan, and evidence-based research to improve public policy. Browse by topic or project.