Skip to Main Content

E-Books for Visual Arts: ACLS Humanities E-Books

Guide to the many E-Book resources available for art and architecture.

Examples of Art & Architecture items inside ACLS Humanities E-Books

What is ACLS Humanities E-Books?

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-three 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 the literature.

Using ACLS Humanities E-Books

There are a few ways to discover materials inside ACLS Humanities E-Books.  From the home page, you can jump right to browsing the collections or go to the search options.  While ACLS Humanities E-Books only contains electronic books, it does offer some very advanced search features.  There are four main search options: basic, boolean, proximity and bibliographic.