ACLS Fellows' Publications on HEB

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is proud to feature more than one hundred publications by ACLS Fellows as part of its online collection. These titles are identified by their unique logo and may be searched as a separate series.

A complete list of Fellows' Publications on HEB can be found on our website and on Pinterest.

ACLS supports scholars in the humanities by awarding over $15 million in fellowships annually. Recipients for these highly competitive awards are selected from thousands of applications each year. Fellowships allow these scholars to pursue research that improves our understanding of the world, its cultures and histories.

Read more about ACLS fellows and annual fellowship competitions on the ACLS website.

New on HEB: Miss Yourlovin and From Heads of Household to Heads of State

HEB has just published two more entries in its ongoing Gutenberg-e series. We are happy to offer these new titles, both of which represent recent scholarship in the fields of women's studies and women's history.

Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II by Ann Elizabeth Pfau delves into gender roles and the perception of women among U.S. soldiers during the second world war. What emerges is a conflicted view divided between sentimentality and eroticism, a yearning for domesticity and a mistrust of female independence. The book’s name derives from a B-24 bomber operating in the Mediterranean theater during World War II and the pinup girl that served as its decoration and mascot.

In J. L. McIntosh’s From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession we turn to Tudor England, investigating Mary and Elizabeth Tudor’s reigns during a historical period ostensibly defined by patriarchal dominance. The author argues here that these two monarchs established themselves as authority figures able to wield sovereign power not only because they were the legal heirs to the throne (through the 1544 Act of Succession) but also because, in their preaccession political careers, they already functioned as heads of their own independent households.

These volumes are the XML-formatted counterparts of online editions originally published by Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.

Latest HEB Top Ten Titles (Fall 2013)

Once again HEB is pleased to publish its latest list of the ten most frequently accessed titles in the ACLS Humanities E-Book collection, which now totals close to 4,000 books. These findings cover our most recently processed royalty period for the first half of 2013.

1. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso, 2006)
2. Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press, 2006)
3. McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995)
4. Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973)
5. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton University Press, 1996)
6. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Pantheon, 1993)
7. Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 (Stanford University Press, 1976)
8. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004)
9. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale University Press, 1985)
10. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, 1988)

Frankfurt Book Fair 2013

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) will be attending this year's Frankfurt Book Fair from October 9 to 11. If you will be in Frankfurt as well and are interested in setting up a meeting, please write us at info@hebook.org. We look forward to seeing you there.

HEB Pricing for 2014

ACLS Humanities E-Book is announcing its subscription rates for the upcoming year, effective January 2014. HEB did not increase prices in 2013 due to economic concerns and budgetary constraints among its subscriber base. For 2014, rates will increase approximately 3% over the 2012 rates, despite a 20% increase in the size of the collection over the past two years.

New rates will go into effect on January 1, 2014, and can be found on our website. Institutions that subscribe before this date will receive the 2012-2013 rates for the subscription period. Group discounts and consortia pricing will apply accordingly. For more information, please contact us at subscriptions@hebook.org.

New Titles and MARC Records Released

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is pleased to announce we have just added 327 new titles to our online collection. These titles are automatically available to all subscribers and MARC records may be downloaded for easy integration with library holdings (please see below for instructions).

This brings the grand total of titles in the HEB collection to 3,987. A comprehensive downloadable title list, including ISBN numbers and subject headings, can be found here: http://humanitiesebook.org/the-collection/default.html.

With this latest release, we are increasing HEB’s offerings in American and European History, Biblical Literature, Film and Media Studies and Legal History, among other areas.

Highlights of the release include:

• Dozens of titles recommended by HEB’s newest contributing societies, the American Academy of Religion, the American Society for Environmental History and the World History Association. Please visit our blog to read more about these collaborations.
• Twenty-seven volumes from the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization’s ongoing series Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry (recommended for inclusion by the Association for Jewish Studies). More information about this new HEB series is available here.
• Twenty-six books published by the Medieval Academy of America.
• Forty-six prize-winning books that have received awards from ACLS’s constituent learned societies.

As always, all new additions represent titles of enduring value that have been carefully vetted and recommended by scholars.

MARC Records

MARC records and cataloging data for all titles in the collection are available for download on our website. Subscribers may download either a zip file containing 322 records for our newly released titles or a cumulative zip file containing 3,784 records corresponding to all 3,987 titles now live in the collection. (Note that one record may cover multiple volumes of the same title.)

The files are available for download at: http://humanitiesebook.org/help/for-librarians.html#Anchor-MARC-21683.

New subscribers or those who have not recently updated their MARC records for the collection should download acls1-10.zip (3,784 records corresponding to the 3,987 in rounds 1-10, online as of August 2013).

In order to add MARCs only the latest round of titles, please download the file acls10.zip, which includes 322 records for the 327 books added in August 2013.

If downloading the new records only, please bear in mind that a number of titles are being removed in this round and that you may wish to manually remove the corresponding MARC records from your library catalog. A list of all titles removed from the collection to date, including the 33 books removed in this round, can be found here: http://humanitiesebook.org/help/for-librarians.html#Anchor-Titles-11113.

Records for all HEB titles are also available from WorldCat.

New HEB Website Launches

ACLS Humanities E-Book has just launched a new collection interface that will offer better navigability, including improvements in accessibility for users with disabilities. The revised interface also features a more integrated design, with a consistent appearance and functionality across the entire HEB website. We hope that this will result in a better user experience for our readers.

We're especially pleased to report that most features of the collection now allow for navigation by standard automatic readers and a variety of assistive technologies. The new HEB interface conforms to W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Conformance Level A, which means that the collection meets all Level A Success Criteria and contains no absolute barriers to access. We will continue to periodically review and make improvements to our web interface in an effort to ensure that all users are able to make the most of our resource.