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American Council of Learned Societies
Humanities E-Book
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December 16, 2011
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Background
• ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of over 3,300
books of high quality in the Humanities.
• Accessed through institutional and individual subscriptions.
• It offers over 1 million pages and 80,000 images.
• Includes monographs, primary source materials, digital archives,
collections of essays, and databases.
• HEB was launched in September 2002 with a grant from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation. It became self-sufficient in April 2005 and is a
not-for-profit scholarly publishing venture.
• In June 2007, the ACLS History E-Book Project became
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Background
HEB’s collection covers all major Humanities areas including:
History: African, American, Art & Architecture, Asian,
Australasian/Oceanian, Byzantine, Canadian, Caribbean,
Comparative/World, Eastern European/Russian, Economic, European,
Latin American, Law, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Middle East, Native
Peoples of the Americas, Science/Technology.
Humanities & Social Sciences: Anthropology, Archaeology,
Bibliographic Studies, Film & Media Studies, Folklore, Jewish
Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Music/Musicology, Performance
Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Sociology, Women’s
Studies.
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Partners
HEB’s partners include:
• 23 Scholarly Societies in the Humanities (which recommend books in
their respective subject areas).
• Over 100 contributing publishers (which provide HEB with the
selected books for digital publication).
• MPublishing and Digital Library Production Service at the University
of Michigan (which provides the technological backend for HEB’s ebooks).
• 670 subscribing libraries and consortia.
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Participating Learned Societies
• African Studies Association
• American Academy of Religion
• American Folklore Society
• American Historical Association
• American Musicological Association
• American Society for Environmental History
• American Society for Legal History
• American Sociological Association
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Participating Learned Societies
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• Association for Asian Studies
• The Bibliographical Society of America
• College Art Association
• History of Science Society
• Latin American Studies Association
• Linguistic Society of America
• Middle East Studies Association
• Modern Language Association
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Participating Learned Societies
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• Organization of American Historians
• Renaissance Society of American
• Rhetoric Society of America
• Society for the History of Technology
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• Society of Dance History Scholars
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• 3,300 titles currently online.
• Hundreds of titles are being added each year.
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books encoded in XML.
• A total of 89 XML titles are now available online or in
development.
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Collection criteria:
• Quality and usefulness for teaching and research.
• Works that remain vital to scholars and advanced
students.
• Works that are frequently cited in the literature.
• Selected based on the quality and longevity of the
works.
• Form part of a scholarly network of titles.
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Quality of selections guaranteed:
• Books are recommended by individual scholars and committees of
participating learned societies.
• Prize-winning titles are included (America and National Book Awards,
Jackson-Turner, Atlantic, Toynbee, Haskins, Bancroft, Pulitzer,
Marraro, Parkman, Beveridge, Curti, Breasted, Fairbank, Del Rey,
Gershoy, Hourani, Dexter, Hacker, Baxter Adams, Beer, Birdsall,
Corey, etc.)
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• The collection includes titles from fields across the
Humanities.
• Both in- and out-of-print titles are available.
• Publication dates range from 1820s to 2011.
• HEB allows libraries to easily add 3,300 titles to their
collection at once (as well as several hundred additional
titles per year).
• For users who also want a physical copy, over 400 HEB
titles are now available in various Print-on-Demand
formats.
• HEB is also in the process of converting several hundred
titles from the collection for use with handheld devices.
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Fields in Humanities
HISTORY
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
AFRICAN
ANTHROPOLOGY
AMERICAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
ART & ARCHITECTURE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC STUDIES
ASIAN
FILM & MEDIA STUDIES
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN
FOLKLORE
BYZANTINE
JEWISH STUDIES
CANADIAN
LINGUISTICS
CARIBBEAN
LITERARY STUDIES
COMPARATIVE/WORLD
MUSIC/MUSICOLOGY
EASTERN EUROPEAN/RUSSIAN
PERFORMANCE STUDIES
ECONOMIC
PHILOSOPHY
EUROPEAN
POLITICAL SCIENCE
LATIN AMERICAN
RELIGION
LAW
SOCIOLOGY
MEDICINE
METHODS/THEORY
MIDDLE EAST
NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
WOMEN’S STUDIES
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As part of its role as a portal to the best digital scholarship in the humanities, HEB also makes available
several important online series in cooperation with publishers and learned societies. These can be searched
either as distinct series on our search page or by individual title within the HEB collection. HEB currently
offers the following series:
AHA’s Guide to Historical Literature
ASA’s Rose Series in Sociology
Cambridge University Press (multiple series)
Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum
Collected Writings of Walt Whitman
College Art Association Monographs
English Institute Publications
Fordham University Press: American Philosophy
Fordham University Press: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Gutenberg-e
John Harvard Library
Records of Civilization
Society of Biblical Literature: Writings from the Ancient World
Society of Biblical Literature: Writings from the Greco-Roman World
Transformation of the Classical Heritage
Works of Henry Steele Commager
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• Page-image format e-books to be added to the collection are scanned
off site by the University of Michigan’s MPublishing Division. Cradle
scanning is performed on rare books, we also convert PDFs provided
by the publishers.
• Page-image titles are presented using tiff-to-gif technology, viewable
with standard web browsers online.
• Underlying the page images is the OCR text (99.99% accurate), which
is used for searching.
• In response to user feedback, HEB recently began offering new
viewing options: 1) page image (the default option), 2) OCR text,
which shows highlighted search terms and allows for access by screen
readers for the visually impaired, and 3) PDF, to facilitate printing (3
pages at a time allowed).
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XML Format E-Books
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Most XML books in the HEB collection are derived from a preexisting print
version. Select other titles in the collection are “born digital” and do not have
a print counterpart.
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In contrast to page-image books that are image-based, XML books are textbased. The books are encoded in XML, but are dynamically transformed into
HTML for standard web-browser viewing when accessed online.
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Titles are numbered by paragraph for ease of scholarly citation; those books
with print counterparts also include print page numbers for reference.
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White Papers
HEB has produced three White Papers to date studying various aspects of
the digital humanities and e-book development. The full text of each
White Paper is available on HEB’s website via the links below.
• HEB White Paper No. 1: Report on Technology Development and
Production Workflow for XML Encoded E-Books [for the ACLS
History E-Book Project]
• HEB White Paper No. 2: ACLS Humanities E-Book XML Conversion
Experiment: Report on Workflow, Costs, and User Preferences
• HEB White Paper No. 3: Handheld E-Book Readers and Scholarship:
Report and Reader Survey
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e-books for courses on e-reserve, rather than
requiring students to purchase print books.
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Over 670 libraries and consortia subscribe to HEB including:
•Research Universities: Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc.
•State Systems: California State University, Kansas Regents, Ohiolink, the University of
Texas
•Public Libraries: NYPL Research Libraries
•Smaller Libraries: Bryn Mawr, Mt. St. Mary’s, Lyon College, York College, Folger
Shakespeare; numerous secondary-school libraries
•Non-U.S. Libraries: American University in Cairo, Central European in Budapest, Soka
University (Tokyo), University of Singapore, JISC Consortium (UK), etc.
•Consortia: ACA, Cal State, CIC, Danish Research, JISC, NAAL, NELINET, NERL,
OCLC, PALINET, WALDO, etc.
•Annual subscription is priced on a sliding-scale based on size of institution (FTE / Carnegie ratings) or
population.
•Prices range from $490 (small college, etc.) to $3,425 (large research university, etc.).
•Discounts are available for consortia.
•Individual subscriptions are available through ACLS’s constituent learned societies ($35/year).
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