This guide is intended as a starting point into some of the social science and humanities titles and series on the Scholars Portal Books platforms. The goal is to help those who typically use print monographs and therefore may not be familiar with the breadth and scope of some of our ebook collections.
Tips
- Not every school subscribes to every collection, but we have mostly suggested collections with a large number of subscribing schools.
- Where there are particular series, we have linked directly to them. Where there is more general coverage, we have linked to a general or keyword search, and encourage you to explore keyword and series in the right hand column.
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- Anthropology & archaeology
- Commerce & finance
- Economics
- Education
- Gender, family & sexuality studies
- Geography
- History
- American history
- Canadian history
- International relations
- Language and literature
- Livres en français
- Canadian Literature
- American literature
- Linguistics
- Law
- Library science
- Media studies
- Music
- Philosophy
- Political science
- Psychology
- Race, ethnic & area studies
- Indigenous studies
- Religious studies
- Sociology
- Statistics
Anthropology & archaeology
Publishers to try: Duke, Oxford, Springer (archaeology), Springer (anthropology), University of California Press (UPSO)
Notable series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology (Springer), Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation (Springer), SpringerBriefs in Anthropology, SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, One World Archaeology (Routledge)
Commerce & finance
Publishers to try: Palgrave, Springer, Wiley, Edward Elgar
Notable series: Studies in banking and financial institutions (Palgrave), SpringerBriefs in Business, Management for Professionals (Springer), Contributions to Management Science (Springer), Routledge international studies in money and banking, Springer Finance
Economics
Notable series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report (Chicago-UPSO, Chicago-Direct here), Carleton Library series (MQUP), Palgrave Studies in Economic History (Springer), International political economy series (Springer), Routledge frontiers of political economy, SpringerBriefs in Economics, WIDER Studies in Development Economics (Oxford)
Education
Publishers to try: Université du Québec, Oxford
Notable series: SpringerBriefs in Education (Springer), Technical & Vocational Education (Springer)
Gender, family & sexuality studies
Publishers to try: Canadian University Presses, Duke, Palgrave, SAGE, APA
Notable series: Studies in gender and history (UTP), Studies in childhood and family in Canada (WLU), Palgrave studies in gender and education (Springer), Crossroads of Knowledge (Springer), Advances in gender research (Emerald), Genders and Sexualities in History (Palgrave/Springer), Understanding Families (SAGE)
Geography
Publishers to try: Springer, Oxford
Notable series: Carleton Library series (MQUP), Nature, history, society (UBC), Urban landscape perspectives (Springer), SpringerBriefs in Geography, The Urban Book Series (Springer), Routledge studies in human geography
History
Publishers to try: Brill, Routledge, Cambridge, Oxford, McGill-Queen’s University Press
Notable series: Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History (Brill); Studies in gender and history (UTP), Nature, history, society (UBC), Studies in cultural and intellectual history (Palgrave), Routledge revivals, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Oxford Historical Monographs, Studies in the history of ideas (MQUP), Studies in the history of medicine, health and society (MQUP)
American history
Publishers to try: University of Chicago Press, Palgrave, Routledge, Oxford
Notable series: Historical studies of urban America (Chicago), American beginnings, 1500-1900 (Chicago), Studies in American popular history and culture (Routledge), Critical moments in American history (Routledge), Studies in African American history and culture (Routledge), American beginnings 1500-1900 (Chicago)
Canadian history
Publishers to try: Cambridge Oxford, UTP, MQUP, UBC, Laval
Notable series: Carleton Library series (MQUP), Studies in Canadian military history (UBC) McGill-Queen’s native and northern series
International relations
Publishers to try: Edward Elgar, Palgrave, Springer, Cambridge
Notable series: International political economy series (Palgrave), Cambridge studies in international relations, Routledge advances in international relations and global politics
Language and literature
Publishers to try: Duke, Palgrave, Routledge, Oxford, Cambridge
Notable series: Studies in book and print culture (UTP), Routledge classics, Routledge library editions, Cambridge studies in linguistics, ESL & applied linguistics (Routledge), Studies in English language (Cambridge), Literary criticism and theory (Routledge), Cambridge companions to literature, Studies in major literary authors (Routledge), Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Livres en français
Publishers to try: Université de Montréal, Presses de l’Université Laval, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Notable series: Espace littéraire (Université de Montréal)
Canadian Literature
Publishers to try: University of Toronto Press, University of Ottawa Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, MQUP, Laval
Notable series: Hugh MacLennan poetry series (MQUP), Canadian literature collection (UOP), Laurier Poetry Series (WLU), The Robert Kroetsch Series (University of Alberta), Reappraisals (UOP), TransCanada Series (WLU)
American literature
Publishers to try: Cambridge, Routledge, Oxford, Duke
Notable series: Phoenix poets (Chicago), Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, New Americanists (Duke), Routledge transnational perspective on American literature, The American Novel (Cambridge)
Linguistics
Oxford (via CRKN)
Law
Publishers to try: Oxford, Springer, Brill, Ontario Legislative Assembly collection, University of Toronto Press.
Notable series: Law and society series (UBC), Cambridge Studies in Law and Society, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (Springer), Law and Philosophy Library (Springer), SpringerBriefs in Law
Library science
Publishers to try: Springer, Emerald
Notable series: Studies in book and print culture (UTP), Advances in librarianship (Emerald), Information Science and Knowledge Management (Springer), Routledge studies in library and information science
Media studies
Publishers to try: Palgrave, SAGE, Duke
Notable series: Film and media studies series (WLU), Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Music
Publishers to try: Oxford, Springer, Cambridge, Princeton
Notable series: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology (Chicago), Ashgate popular and folk music series (Routledge), SOAS musicology series (Routledge), Cambridge music handbooks
Philosophy
Publishers to try: University of Chicago Press, Brill, Cambridge
Notable series: Chicago studies in practices of meaning (Chicago), Studies in the history of ideas (MQUP), Studies in the history of medicine, health and society (MQUP), Philosophica (UOP), Cambridge studies in philosophy, Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
Political science
Publishers to try: Edward Elgar, Palgrave, Routledge, Princeton University Press
Notable series: Chicago studies in American politics (Chicago), Carleton Library series (MQUP), Queen’s policy studies series (MQUP), Governance series (UOP), Studies in European Union politics (Palgrave), Routledge frontiers of political economy, SpringerBriefs in political science, Routledge innovations in political theory, Cambridge Studies in comparative politics
Psychology
Publishers to try: PsycBooks (APA), Routledge, Springer, Cambridge
Notable series: APA handbooks in psychology, Prentice-Hall psychology series, SpringerBriefs in Psychology, Psychology revivals, Routledge modular psychology, Studies in emotion and social interaction (Cambridge) Treatments that work (Oxford)
Race, ethnic & area studies
Publishers to try: Duke, Taylor & Francis, Oxford, Canadian University Presses
Notable series: Contemporary Chinese studies (UBC), Transcultural research (Springer), Routledge Jewish studies Series, Race and American culture (Oxford), Studies in African American history and culture (Routledge), Contemporary French and Francophone cultures, New Caribbean studies (Springer)
Indigenous studies
Publishers to try: Purich Publishing (UBC), Duke University Press (Latin & South America), University of Regina (language)
Notable series: Native and northern series (MQUP), Indigenous studies series (WLU), Indigenous peoples and politics (Routledge)
Religious studies
Publishers: Brill, Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton (UPSO)
Notable series: Studies and Texts (Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies), Buddhism and modernity (Chicago), Studies on the texts of the Desert of Judah (Brill), Society for New Testament studies monograph series (Cambridge), Routledge studies in religion, Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine, McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of religion
Sociology
Publishers to try: Routledge, Springer, Taylor & Francis
Notable series: Handbooks of sociology and social research (Springer) Routledge advances in sociology, Cambridge Cultural Social Studies, International library of sociology (Routledge),
Statistics
Publishers to try: Springer, Wiley (direct)
Notable series:SpringerBriefs in Statistics, Springer Series in Statistics