HEB Announces Individual Subscription Offer

HEB is now pleased to make individual subscriptions available through standing membership in any of the 70 ACLS constituent societies.

The subscription offers unlimited access to 2,200 cross-searchable, full-text titles across the humanities and related social sciences. Titles have been selected and peer reviewed by ACLS constituent learned societies for their continued value in teaching and research, and approximately 500 titles are being added each year.

The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from the 1880s through 2009. Titles link to publishers’ websites and to online reviews in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other sites. Individual subscriptions are USD $35.00 for a twelve-month subscription.

Individual subscriptions are ideal for those whose school might not yet have an institutional subscription to HEB or for individual members of a learned society who might not be affiliated with a subscribing institution.

For more information on individual subscription to Humanities E-Book, please visit the Individual Subscription page and review the Terms.

To make a purchase online via our secure server, please visit Online Purchase.

An HEB Perspective on Google Books

HEB Co-Director Ron Musto reflects on the Google Books project and its impact on historical scholarship in "Google Books Mutilates the Printed Past," in the June 12, 2009 issue of The Chronicle Review. Please visit http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i39/39b00401.htm for full article.

AHA Highlights Spring 2009 HEB News

From the American Historical Association's AHA Today, "What We're Reading: April 30, 2009 Edition": 

As this month rounds up, we round up too, with links to recent rankings and winners, current events, and articles on a variety of topics.

Our colleagues at ACLS Humanities E-Book reflect on ten years (extending back to when they were History E-Book) and speculate that "[t]he print monograph and journal…are succumbing to the pressures of the economic crisis."

Please visit AHA Today for full article.

Spring 2009 HEB News Published

The new issue of the HEB News (Vol. 3, No. 2) is now available for download as a PDF and will also be emailed to subscribers. This issue brings some reflections on HEB's tenth year and addresses the current situation in humanities publishing. It also lists HEB's Top Ten Books and our new XML titles. 

HEB to Attend SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting

ACLS Humanities E-Book will be exhibiting at the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) Annual Membership Meeting from May 14-15, 2009 in Atlanta, GA. Please see http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events/SOLINET-Annual-Membership-Meeting.aspx

for more information.

New White Paper and XML Backlist Experiment

HEB’s new White Paper is now available. It details our findings in the XML Backlist Experiment, as well as what we've learned about comparative workflow, schedule, and costs. Please see the XML Backlist Experiment page for a summary of the survey results. The White Paper is available as a free PDF download on our site or as an attractively bound paperback for a $10 purchase on Amazon.

HEB Responds to Stan Katz on Digital Humanities

http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/katz/the-fate-of-the-humanities-article#c015956

(Post by Ron Musto and Eileen Gardiner, ACLS Humanities E-Book, The Chronicle Review, March 26, 2009.)