If you are a new social sciences Postgraduate student and have missed attending your library welcome session, the slides from all the sessions are now available on our Training Archive.
Take a look to find out about the services we provide and how to find resources for your subject area.
Still have questions? Need some help? Talk to our friendly library staff, who will be happy to help with any queries you may have. Speak to us in person at our Issue Desk or you can contact us via phone (01865 2-71093) or email.
You can also book a research appointment with your subject librarian. They give expert help on how to use particular resources or on locating difficult to find material. Discuss your research topic and literature searching needs with your subject librarian to make the most of researching at Oxford. Find out their contact details via the Subject Librarians webpage.
Build your confidence with the Bodleian iSkills programme, a series of free workshops that empower students, researchers, and staff at the University of Oxford to develop essential skills in discovering, critically evaluating, managing, presenting and sharing information in an evolving digital and physical world.
Workshops taking place in 1st Week Michaelmas Term
Tuesday 14 October
Fundamentals of open access 10:00-11:30 | Online Understand what open access really means — decode the jargon and explore how publishing open can benefit your research.
Foundations of copyright for researchers 11:00-12:30 | Online Understand how copyright affects your research and your rights and responsibilities in an age of open scholarship.
Find out more and book your place via the workshop titles above.
Build your confidence with the Bodleian iSkills programme, a series of free workshops that empower students, researchers, and staff at the University of Oxford to develop essential skills in discovering, critically evaluating, managing, presenting and sharing information in an evolving digital and physical world.
This established programme has been revamped for the new academic year with a thoughtfully crafted timetable of workshops to equip you with the essential information and data skills you need to excel this year and beyond.
Some of the workshops are in person and some online via Teams.
Black Studies Centre consists of scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black Studies, historic indexes, and The Chicago Defender newspaper from 1910-1975. At the heart of Black Studies Centre is Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, consisting of essays that provide an introduction to major topics in Black Studies. Black Studies Centre provides the historical full-text of one of the most influential black newspapers in the United States, The Chicago Defender.
Are you a new Oxford undergraduate? We’ve selected some titles to help you settle into student life and studying in Oxford. You’ll find cookery books, Oxford guides, study tips and more.
The books featured in the display are on loan to us from the Collections Storage Facility (CSF). They are for use in the library only and cannot be borrowed. Do feel free to remove them from the display to look at in the library and then return them there afterwards. The book display can be found around the corner from the Issue Desk in the Social Science Library.
Libraries will play a big part during your time in Oxford, whether providing access to eBooks, eJournals and databases, helping you find books on your reading list or providing you with a place to study.
Getting to grips with the services we provide and finding your way around buildings and collections, can seem dauting at first. We run Library Welcome Sessions and Tours, to provide you with all the key information you need to know, so you can confidently get down to your studies.
Details of your Library Welcome Webinar, where library staff will run through how the Bodleian Libraries can help you, are in your student timetable. Links and times for your sessions will be listed there or you can ask your college for further details.
You can drop in and attend a 30 minute tour of the SSL at any of the times below; no booking required:
Wednesday 8th October – 11.30am, 5pm
Thursday 9th October – 11.30am, 5pm
Friday 10th October – 11.30am, 5pm
Postgraduates
Your Library Welcome sessions are in person and you will have been given details of them by your Department. In most cases, your Library tours will be just after or just before your Welcome session. If you miss your tour, feel free to attend one of the drop in tours listed above.
SOLO is the search and discovery tool for the major collections of Oxford University’s libraries (including the SSL). You can find out all about how to use it in our SOLO Subject Guide.
You can also get assistance with using SOLO via the Bodleian Libraries Live Chat service. During staffed hours (see above) just type your query into the Live Chat box to the right of the screen and a staff member will reply.
Still have questions? Need some help? Talk to our friendly staff, who will be happy to assist with any queries you may have. Speak to us in person at our Issue Desk (as you enter the library) or contact us via phone (01865 2-71903) or via email.
The SSL ‘Book of the Month’ feature highlights a book in our collection that has been chosen by one of our Subject Consultants. This may be a recent addition to our stock or an existing item that we would like to share with you.
October’s Book of the Month was selected by Helen Worrell, Subject Consultant for Anthropology.
McClaurin, Irma (editor)
Black feminist anthropology: theory, politics, praxis, and poetics
25th Anniversary edition
Rutgers University Press, 2024
GN33.8.BLA 2024
Book Overview
In 2001 McClaurin edited a groundbreaking volume that brought together a group of Black feminist Anthropologists to interrogate and evolve the discipline. This 25th Anniversary Edition celebrates this scholarship and provides a new Forward to contextualise these essays and the impact they had on Anthropology.
Reviews
“What is so powerful about these women’s voices is that their theory is based not only on a self-reflexive and autobiographical framework, but it is positioned in a framework that boldly declares its commitment to scholarship, theory-making, and social justice. It is a very important book for anthropology, for feminist studies, for African American studies—and ultimately for all of us.”
Anthropological Quarterly
“Black Feminist Anthropology makes a provocative and important contribution to contemporary Black feminism. For the authors in this book, the premise that scholarship and social justice agendas must inform one another fosters a new anthropology that promises to stimulate new questions for us all.”
Patricia Hill Collins, author of Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice
How can I access it?
We have one lending copy of this book, which is located on our New Books Display Area (around the corner from our Issue Desk). Its shelfmark is GN33.8.BLA 2024.
What would your SSL Book of the Month be? Do you have a favourite book in our collection? If so, we would love to know what it is. Add a comment below or email us.
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