Humanities & Social Sciences
Judith Nollar Ruth Sustaita |
Online Resources (Finding Aids, Encyclopedias, Subject Resources) Quick Links |
HSS Library Locations
Dabney Library Reading Room
Dabney Hall first floor: Humanities reference service, reserves, reference books, HSS current journals.
Dabney Library stacks
Dabney Hall basement: Humanities circulating books (Philosophy, Biography, Art, Music, Literature, History other than U.S.)
Millikan Library Basement
Social Sciences books, including U.S. History, HSS journals backfiles,Chinese & Japanese language Collections
For precise materials location information, check the Library Catalog.
Online Resources
Finding Books, Dissertations, Manuscripts, Pictures, Proceedings, Recordings
- CLAS: Caltech Library catalog
- ArchiveGrid: locate archival collections
- Books in Print
- Caltech Theses
- CODA: Caltech Open Digital Archives
- Dissertation Abstracts Online (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses)
- English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
- Local Libraries
- MELVYL
- National Sound Archive: British Library
- New Materials in the Caltech Library
- Online Archive of California (finding aids)
- Other Library Catalogs
- ProceedingsFirst: papers of conferences worldwide
- UNESCO Publications
- WorldCat
Finding Electronic Full Text Books (see Literature listing also)
- Gallica: Texts from the Bibliotheque National, Paris
- Humanities E-Book Project
- University of California Press eScholarship Editions
Finding Articles
- ArticleFirst (12,500 periodical indexed)
- British Library Newspaper Library
- EconLit
- FirstSearch (collection of book & article indexes)
- Historical Abstracts/America History and Life
- ITER: Bibliography of the Middle Ages
- J-STOR (Full text journal archive)
- Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe (newspapers full text)
- MLA Bibliography
- Philosopher's Index
- Web of Knowledge: HSS citation indexes
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Encyclopedia Americana
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Wordsmyth English Dictionary/Thesaurus (Univ. of Chicago)
- Other CLS recommended Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Subject Specific Links
Humanities
- Classical Myth
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Electronic Resources for Classicists
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- The English Server: arts & humanities gateway
- AH Search: Arts&Humanities Citation Index 1980-
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Caltech Language Resource Site (restricted to Caltech users)
- Caltech's Hixon Writing Center
- Guide to Digital Resources for the Humanities
- Intute: arts & humanities
- Iter: bibliography of the Renaissance
- Library of Latin Texts (Brepols)
- Medieval & Modern Thought Text Digitization Project
- Voice of the Shuttle: humanities research
History and Biography
- The American Colonist's Library: A Treasury of Primary Documents
- American Heritage Virtual Archives Finding Aids
- American Memory
- Biographical directory of the United States Congress
- Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Caltech Archives
- Einstein Papers Project
- Historical Abstracts/America: History and Life
- Historical Statistics of the United States
- Newspaper History: British Library Newspaper Library
- The Making of America (primary sources for 19th Century history)
- Marquis Who's Who on the Web
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Brepols)
- Obituary Index(LAPL for So. Calif.)
- Online Medieval Sources Bibliography
- ORB Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Smithsonian Science Service Historical Image Collection
- Western European Specialists
- World History Archives
Literature: Electronic Texts
- Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
- ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, French texts spanning the 13th to the 20th centuries.
- Bartleby.Com: Texts and Reference Books
- Bibliomania: classic texts, fiction and non-fiction
- Columbia World of Quotations
- Gallica: French literary texts from the BN
- Great Literature Online
- E-Text at University of Virginia
- Humanities E-Book Project
- Internet Public Library
- LIterature ONline (LION): texts and journals
LitFinder: fulltext poems, plays, stories, speeches - Medieval and Classical Online Library: a collection of texts
- Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project (Stanford)
- Perspectives in American Literature: research guide.
- Project Gutenberg
- Religious / Sacred Texts
- Shakespeare: IPL recommended sites
- TEAMS: Middle English Texts
- The William Blake Archive
Literature: Criticism
- Literary Criticism
- Literature Resource Center (formerly Contemporary Literary Criticism)
Literature: Reference
- California Fiction Index (LAPL. No password required)
- English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
- Literature Resource Center (includes former Contemporary Authors)
- Short Story File Index (LAPL)
- The Web Concordances
Philosophy
- EpistemeLinks: electronic texts
- Ethics Updates
- History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Philosopher's Index
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Psychology
- Classics in the History of Psychology
- PsycArticles
- PsychFirst
- Psychological Abstracts; most recent three years
Social Sciences
- Almanac of American Politics username: 823833; password: millikan
- Anthropological Index Online London. Museum of Mankind Library
- Brookings Institution Papers
- CQ Congress Collection
- CQ Researcher Online
- CQ Voting and Elections Collection
- East and Southeast Asia: an annotated directory of internet resources
- EconLit
- Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
- European Union Gateway
- Institute for Quantitative Social Science
- Lexis/Nexis Academic
- Lexis/Nexis Congressional Universe
- Library of Congress Country Studies
- OECD Online
- Rand California: online source for public policy and economics
- Rand's Selected Economics Links
- RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
- SIRS Researcher
- Intute:Social Science
- Supreme Court Research Web Guide
- UCLA Asia Institute
Data Sources
- American Factfinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
- California Economic Indicators
- California Statistical Abstract
- California Statistics - Rand
- Census 2000 (ICPSR data files)
- Counting California
- Current Index to Statistics
- EconData (Guide to U.S. regional economic data + alerting service)
- Economic Policy Institute Datazone
- Economic Statistics Briefing Room - most current U.S. data
- Election 2004 (ICPSR)
- Eurostat (EU)
- The Gallup Organization
- Historical Statistics of the United States
- ICPSR
- International Archive of Education Data
- Lexis/Nexis Statistical Universe
- Lijphart Elections Archive (LEA) (voting data for 60 countries)
- National Center for Educational Statistics
- The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD - Harvard Univ.)
- Social Statistics Briefing Room - most current U.S. data
- The State of the Cities Data System (HUD)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (U. of Michigan)
- U.K. Office for National Statistics
- United Nations Social Indicators
- United Nations Statistics Division
- U.S. Statistical Abstract (complete, .pdf download in sections)
- Dataverse Network Project (open-source quantitative research data)
- Voter Information Services Current data on Congressional voting
Caltech Online Digital Archive (CODA)
Caltech Social Science Working Papers
Papers and Reports on Current Issues:
Jobs and Careers
- Academic 360.com
- Fulbright Grants for US Faculty and Professionals
- Humanities Job Openings: Chronicle of Higher Education
- Social Science Job Openings: Chronicle of Higher Education