Research Guides: Social Sciences : Books and EBooks

Recommended EBook Databases

You can search for EBooks directly in EBook databases. Two EBook databases with social sciences titles are Ebook Central and Electronic Book Center (EBC) Collections.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A collection of almost 150,000 EBooks on business, computer science/IT, humanities, nursing/allied health, and more. Additional functionality such as bookmarking, note taking and printing/copying features are available by creating an Ebook Central account. Contains single use, multi-use and unlimited use titles.
Electronic Book Center This link opens in a new window
Thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Contains content from Chadwyck-Healey, Oxford Scholarship Online, Wiley, Springer, Sage, ABC-CLIO, and Oxford Reference. Unlimited use titles with no digital rights management.
Elsevier Evidence-Based Selection (EBS) e-books This link opens in a new window
E-books in subjects including earth and planetary sciences, engineering and computing, life and biological sciences, medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
Routledge Handbooks This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date overviews of classic and current research across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Engineering, and Built Environment from Routledge and CRC Press.

Social Science EBooks

Advancing Human Rights by Michael Mintrom
ISBN: 9781922633286
Publication Date: 2022-07-01
American Criminal Justice by Frederick T. Davis
ISBN: 9781108493208
Publication Date: 2019-07-25
The Social Psychology of Gender by Laurie A. Rudman; Peter Glick
ISBN: 9781462546848
Publication Date: 2021-07-01
Visual Sociology by Dennis Zuev; Gary Bratchford
ISBN: 9783030545093
Publication Date: 2021-01-05

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