Humanities and social sciences books of ten national disciplinary associations, 2000–2009.

Books are the most important medium of communication in the humanities, a major medium in the social sciences, and a central component of academic library collections. This study examined humanities and social sciences books that won prizes from ten leading United States disciplinary associations between 2000 and 2009. The study extends earlier research for the 1990s. It reports substantial interest by most disciplines in books about subjects classified in other disciplines; dominance of university presses over commercial publishers in prizes won; and, between 2012 and 2014, great growth in library holdings of electronic versions of prizewinners

Design Principles for Electronic Textual Resources: Investigating Users and Uses of Scholarly Information

We describe a project whose goal is to develop a coherent set of principles for the design of electronic textual databases to support scholarly activity, in particular in the humanities. The focus of the project is a series of investigations which aim to understand: the tasks and goals of scholars in the humanities � the behaviors of such scholars in their interactions with texts of all types � the circumstances which lead them to engage in particular text-related behaviors � and, their explicit uses of texts to accomplish their tasks and achieve their goals. We report here on the initial stages of our overall project, describing our methods and presenting preliminary results of a classi cation of scholarly tasks and goals, and of behaviors in interaction with texts and parts of texts, and also suggestions about the relationship between goals and information-seeking activities. 1