Compilation of new acquisitions and electronic resources on the subjects of humanities and social sciences
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New acquisitions
List of titles on the subjects (last and current month)
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Journals
List of titles on the subjects
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Digital textbooks
List of titles on the subjects
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Databases
A selection of the main databases
- Web of Science – Comprehensive bibliography for journal articles on the humanities and social and natural sciences; includes the Science Citation Index Expanded – Further information
- SciVerse Scopus – Interdisciplinary, the most comprehensive bibliographic database with respect to number of journals covered, particular focus on non-anglophone literature, enables citation analyses and includes unique author-ID's – Further information
- Philosopher’s Index – Specialist literature from all areas of philosophy from 1940 onwards, part of the OVID database – Further information
- Sociological Abstracts – Part of the ProQuest platform – Further information
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) – Specialist literature from all areas of art history from 1973 to 2007
- International Bibliography of the History of Art (IBA) – Specialist literature from all areas of art history from 2008, continuation of the BHA database
- PsyndexPlus – Psychological literature in German and English from 1977 onwards by authors from German-speaking countries, also describes psychological testing procedures – Further information
- MLA International Bibliography – Specialist literature on language and literature from 1926 onwards
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) – Part of the ProQuest platform
- Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) – Part of the ProQuest platform
Additional databases
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Reference works
Selection of the main reference works
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online – English-language general encyclopaedia with various search functions
- Brockhaus-Duden – German-language general encyclopaedia, lexicons from various fields, German spelling rules
- Oxford Reference Online – Collection of general and subject-specific English-language lexicons and dictionaries
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Lexicon on philosophy, continuously updated
- Encyclopedia of Sociology – Lexicon on sociology (Macmillan Reference)
- Oxford Art Online – Portal with English-language lexicons on the study of art, includes Grove Art Online
- SIKART – Lexicon and database on art in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein
- A Dictionary of Psychology – Lexicon on psychology (Oxford University Press)
- Historical Lexicon of Switzerland – Comprehensive reference work on the history of Switzerland in German, French and Italian
Additional reference works
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Specialist information
- Philosophy Pages (by Dieter Köhler) – Portal with annotated references to global data sources on philosophy
- Swiss Sociological Association (SGS) – Scientific association representing the interests of Swiss sociology at national and international level
- Photo Foundation Switzerland (formerly the Swiss Foundation for Photography) – Archive and collection on the history of Swiss photography, public specialist library affiliated to the Museum of Photography in Winterthur
- International Center of Photography (ICP) – Museum and training centre for photography (New York) with a comprehensive collection on the history of photography
- BIS (Bibliothek Information Schweiz) – National Swiss specialist association for librarianship and information science
