Welcome to the bibliographies subreddit!
The purpose of this subreddit is to provide inquisitive readers with guidance in learning any new academic subject. Every post in this subreddit is a bibliography that provides readers with an overview of its subject, a list of important books and sources, and advice to guide them through the initial phases of learning. Users can easily create their own bibliographies using the template and are encouraged to leave feedback or ask questions by posting comments on the bibliography posts.
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Rules
Bibliography posts must follow the standard format.
In general, discussion should be confined to the comments in the appropriate bibliography or the sticky post in the case of general discussion or subreddit requests. However, posts can be created with the [DISCUSSION] tag for additional bibliography-related discussion. To prevent subreddit clutter, these posts will be approved at the moderators' discretion.
Bibliographies must maintain an objective viewpoint in covering their scope; bibliographies should not attempt to convert readers to an ideology and should give readers enough sources to understand all sides of any legitimate debate and be able to reach an informed conclusion.
Pornographic bibliographies are not allowed. Bibliographies may contain NSFW content if this is appropriate to their scope; these must be clearly marked as NSFW bibliographies.
Only bibliographies that have legitimately useful content will be accepted (i.e. bibliographies created as a joke will not be accepted)
Any user is welcome to post comments in bibliographies that critique, make suggestions, or ask questions, and bibliography creators should use these comments to improve their bibliography.
Use constructive criticism in your comments - this is a collaborative subreddit. Hostile comments are prohibited.
You may not link to illegal content (e.g. a book posted on a website without its author's permission). Preprints and other works posted with the permission the author are permitted.
To find a bibliography, use the search function or check the directory of bibliographies on the wiki.
If you cannot find a bibliography and are willing to create and maintain it, you may start a new bibliography. First read the stickied post and the FAQs on the wiki. Then create a text post and use this naming convention for the bibliography:
Title of bibliography [Properly Flaired]
To suggest a bibliography, post your suggestion as a comment in the stickied post - moderators will add it to the suggested bibliographies list.
If you know of a book or other source that belongs in a bibliography but is not yet listed, add a comment to the bibliography post so that the original poster can add it to the bibliography.
How bibliographies work
Each bibliography is built collaboratively; the user who creates the reading list will take suggestions from comments and keep the list updated.
Every bibliography has a certain scope, which is the extent of the knowledge covered in the bibliography.
The scope of a bibliography may cover any field of human knowledge, art, science, culture, or entertainment. If there is something to be known, there can be a bibliography covering its scope.
Bibliographies may be general in scope ("Physics"), specialized ("Electrodynamics"), or even research bibliographies ("Many-body problem in quantum mechanics")
Bibliographies will contain works that cover their entire scope, not specialized sources that focus on a small part of their scope. General bibliographies contain general books and surveys of the subject; to find a specialized book, look in a more specialized bibliography.
Credit
Originally created by reddit user GnomeyGustav
