What is Digital Humanities?: Digital Humanities Resources
This guide aims to provide you with a brief overview of what Digital Humanities is all about and how libraries can help in digital humanities initiatives.
Want to know more about Digital Humanities? The Library got you covered! Here are some of the resources available in the library to help you in your digital humanities research. These includes books, journals, databases and open access resources.
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over one hundred journals, and searchable references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
AnthroSource is an online portal connecting more than 30 journals published by the American Anthropological Association. NU Library subscription offers access that covers the 2011-2015 issues.
Established in 1997, JSTOR is the largest provider of archived academic information. JSTOR provides both breadth of coverage spanning across 50 disciplines but what is even more important and rare, it tries to have complete runs of journals preserving journal pages exactly the way they looked when they were published. Overall, we are subscribed to 10 collections that include 1,358 titles and over 35,330,000 of scanned pages in PDF format. All journals archived by JSTOR were published at different times but the first content starts from 1665.
We have access to the following collections: Jstor Archive Collection Arts&Sciences Life sciences (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX)
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress. Includes 2.7 million searchable citations and 1.2 million full text dissertations available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Searchable together with other ProQuest databases. For advanced students and professors in any area.
SocINDEX is a sociology research database, with over two million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. SocINDEX has full text articles from more than 860 journals, as well as full text for more than 830 books and over 16,800 conference papers. Searchable together with other EbscoHost databases.
Web of Science is a database for scientific literature, while Web of Knowledge is a research and citation database that lets you search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. This provides access to the world's leading citation databases, including an Analyze Tool, and over 100 years of comprehensive backfile and citation data. Both can be accessed here, and good for general science use.
A digital collection of fossils and artifacts from our animal and human ancestors, as well as ancient stone tools. Artifacts from East Africa. Download models for 3-D printing and join the forum.
40000 full text articles on computational linguistics and natural language processing in the open access database. Browse for articles and find conference proceedings.
The OLH publishing platform supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, as well as hosting its own multidisciplinary journal.
All the academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review and the scholarship showcases some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs).
Cogent OA, part of Taylor & Francis, publishes a series of fully electronic, open access mega journals across all major branches of medicine, science, social science, humanities and the arts.
Cogent OA journals are run by prestigious editorial boards and have a strong focus on constructive peer review, rapid publication, and the universal dissemination of our authors’ work.
It is a multilingual, independent and interdisciplinary publication founded in 2011 that pays special attention to literary, linguistic, educational, philosophical and hypermedia studies.
A refereed academic journal that serves as an Open Access area for formal scholarly activity and as a resource for researchers in the Digital Humanities. It is published for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations under the direction of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) by the Open Library of the Humanities.
Digithum applies a relational perspective in the analysis of processes of inclusion and social exclusion, subjective experiences, social ties, cultural heritage and cultural production and consumption.
Frontiers in Digital Humanities publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research from Digital History to Big Data, providing a community platform for the Humanities in the digital age. Field Chief Editor, Frederic Kaplan, at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international experts. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics and the public worldwide.
This peer-reviewed e-journal is devoted to the study and reformulation of received philological and philosophical ideas of writing and reading in the Digital Era. It is part of the Directory of Open Access Journals.
The Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities is concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities, with tools provided by computing such as data visualisation, information retrieval, statistics, text mining by publishing scholarly work beyond the traditional humanities.
The Journal of Digital Humanities (ISSN 2165-6673) is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features scholarship, tools, and conversations produced, identified, and tracked by members of the digital humanities community through Digital Humanities Now.
Reviews in Digital Humanities, edited by Dr. Jennifer Guiliano and Dr. Roopika Risam, is the pilot of a peer-reviewed journal and project registry that facilitates scholarly evaluation and dissemination of digital humanities work and its outputs.