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Open Library of Humanities

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Overview:: The Open Library of Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, open to submissions from researchers working in any humanities discipline in any language. The journal is published as a continuous volume throughout the year. The journal is funded by an international library consortium and has no charges to authors or readers. The Open Library of Humanities is digitally perserved in the CLOCKSS archive.
Type of Material:: Open (Access) Journal-Articles.
Recommended Uses:: Out-of-class resources to locate humanities articles about a research topic.
Technical Requirements:: PDF/HTML.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: Instructors could use this website to teach students about locating scholarly resources in the humanities. Sociology instructors could use it to locate resources outside the discipline about subtopics in sociology (e.g., LGBTQ, bodies, activism, media).
Target Student Population:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional, Humanities.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: None.

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Strengths:: Content is good quality and well presented.
Concerns:: As a Humanities journal, the sociological import might not be at first apparent.

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Strengths:: Students will gain familiarity with researching in open access journals, and learn to navigate information. The search button works well. The coverage of topics is diverse.
Concerns:: This resource is well designed and of use for humanities students. While sociology students could use it to get an outside-the-discipline perspective, I'm unsure that this is particularly useful to students who are just learning the sociological perspective. The instructor must design all the teaching aspects.

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Strengths:: The website's layout was designed well. It is organized and clear. Links appear to work. The website is easy to navigate. Very intuitive interface that will engage students with journal research options. And keyword search is possible and works well.
Concerns:: The only issue is that it has not been around very long so there are not many issues.

Other Issues and Comments:: Good quality resource joining humanities with social science, and more specifically sociological concerns.
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