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IV-37c: New North American Academic Books on Humanities Subjects, by Discipline, 2009–2013*

Data Source and Other Information

* Books first published in either print or electronic format. Print titles include hardcover and paperback books. The graph includes all categories in the Library of Congress Classification that refer to subject matter or disciplines that are within the humanities as the field is conceptualized for the purposes of the Humanities Indicators. See the supplemental table for details.

Source: Developed from a compilation by Stephen Bosch, University of Arizona, of data provided by Ingram Content Group (Coutts Information Services) and YBP Library Services.

About the Data

The data providers, Ingram Content Group and YBP Library Services, use the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) to sort books by their subject matter. For the LCC categories included by the Humanities Indicators under each of the field and discipline headings used as part of this analysis, please see Supplemental Table IV-12.

Related Indicators

For data on the price of academic humanities titles relative to other fields, see “Trends in the Price of Academic Titles in the Humanities and Other Fields.”

For data on a major consumer of humanities titles, see “Research Libraries.”

For indicators tracking the amount and sources of funding dedicated by U.S. institutions of higher learning to research in the humanities, see “Research and Development Expenditures at Colleges and Universities.”

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