Social sciences

Libraries are getting access to thousands of BBC academic titles following an expanded agreement between ProQuest and BBC Learning

 Gale, a library resource provider and a Cengage company, has announced the launch of the final modules of its Early Arabic Printed Books archive for the international higher education market.
 
Early Arabic Printed Books features a number of technological innovations pioneered by Gale to ensure scholars in Arabic-speaking countries and beyond can research the range of content, including interfaces in Arabic and European languages, right-to-left-read navigation of Arabic texts, an embedded Arabic keyboard and newly developed optical character recognition software.

If you’ve paid a recent visit to Taylor & Francis Online you’ll have noticed a very different look and feel for the published articles you’re reading.

Brill has launched Brill Research Perspectives, a new collection of review journals in international law, the humanities, and social sciences

Scopus delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. As the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, Scopus has intuitive tools that allow you to track, analyse and visualise research.

Sage and Expert System have released Sage Recommends, a discovery capability within the Sage Knowledge platform that provides users with links to related Sage content to support academic research

Sage has announced the launch of Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, the official journal of the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management

More than 1,250 formerly out-of-print works from the University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) will be available again for purchase as ebooks and print-on-demand editions

EBSCO Information Services has released Chinese Insight, a full-text database that provides coverage of a wide range of predominantly Chinese-language journals

BioMed Central has announced plans to publish the new innovative journal Research Involvement and Engagement, which aims to publish its first articles in June 2015