Robbins Library Notes

Good morning! There’s a new online clearinghouse for the humanities that is being sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Network.

The new clearinghouse is named the Humanities Research Network (HRN), and, according to the press release, the hope is that HRN will “become a comprehensive online resource for research in humanities, providing scholars with access to current work in their field and facilitating research and scholarship.” At present, the directors of the HRN Philosophy Research Network are Lawrence Becker (Hollins University) and Brie Gertler (University of Virginia).

HRN, like the Social Sciences Research Network, posts drafts of works-in-progress, along with finished papers, all of which can be downloaded for free. Furthermore, the coverage of philosophical topics is quite broad, which should suit the interests of many in the department. (To view the expandable taxonomy of topics, please go to http://ssrn.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/browse.) Finally, there is simply a lot of great stuff on this network, as well as the Social Sciences Research Network– I’ve been poking around the site this morning, and have found several items of interest which I’m planning on looking into in the near future.

More information can be found in this press release, as well as in this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education (Harvard ID and PIN required to access it.)

I’ll also post this link in the blogroll.

Please let me know if you have any questions.