HSRC Press has made more than 300+ titles freely available online, and our open access catalogue reflects the full breadth of human sciences research on Africa and the Global South.

Education and skills development form the largest strand of the collection, with titles exploring everything from early childhood learning to higher education reform, teacher training, and vocational pathways. Health and wellbeing are equally prominent, with research on HIV/AIDS, disability, orphaned and vulnerable children, and public health policy spanning South Africa and the wider continent.

Democracy, governance, and society is another prominent thread works examining service delivery, social cohesion, inequality, and the unfolding of South Africa’s democratic project sit alongside titles on gender, land, migration, and the fourth industrial revolution.

The collection also reaches across the continent through our AISA titles, covering African politics, development, and international relations, as well as the environment, energy, and climate change.

From biography and history to economics, media, and culture, the range is deliberately wide. HSRC Press believes that scholarship should travel, across disciplines, across borders, and beyond institutional payment gateways. Every title in this catalogue is available free of charge on the website.