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Oxford Bibliographies

Annotated bibilographies on many, many topics. Provides introductions to each topic area, and includes guides to introductory works, textbooks, guidebooks, journals, reference works etc., and links to useful websites. A library of authoritative, discipline-focused, online guides to the essential literature in subjects across the humanities and social sciences. Each module is a dynamic bibliographic tool containing a hierarchical body of interwoven entries designed to help students and scholars move through the most important scholarship, commentary, and resources in a specific area of research.

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. 

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Search the Oxford Bibliographies to which Cornell subscribes all together, or try out a few of the individual titles listed below.

  • African Studies
  • American Literature
  • Anthropology
  • Atlantic History
  • Art History
  • Biblical Studies
  • British and Irish Literature
  • Buddhism
  • Chinese Studies
  • Cinema and Media Studies
  • Classics
  • Communication
  • Criminology
  • Hinduism
  • International Relations
  • Islamic Studies
  • Jewish Studies
  • Latin American Studies
  • Latino Studies
  • Linguistics
  • Management
  • Medieval Studies
  • Military History
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Renaissance and Reformation
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Victorian Literature