Humanities, social sciences

Compilation of new acquisitions and electronic resources on the subjects of humanities and social sciences

New acquisitions

List of titles on the subjects (last and current month)

Journals

List of titles on the subjects

Digital textbooks

List of titles on the subjects

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

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

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

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