ACLS

The American Council of Learned Societies was established in 1919 to represent the United States within the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) (International Union of Academies) “to encourage cooperation in the advancement of studies through collaborative research and publications in those branches of learning promoted by the academies and institutions represented in the UAI-philology, archaeology, history, the moral, political and social sciences.” The ACLS has represented the nation in the UAI with distinction for more than 80 years. Membership in the American Council of Learned Societies is restricted to organizations. Membership now totals nearly 70 societies.

The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its constitution, is to “advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the Humanities and the related social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.”

Humanities E-Book:
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of over 3,300 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These titles are offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. These are works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in literature.

HEB, which launched in September 2002, now adds approximately 500 books annually to the collection, including a carefully selected list of new XML titles that have the potential to use new media to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways. Titles now include monographs, collected essays and primary sources.