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The Top 10s of 2025 

Posted on January 20, 2026

The Top 10s of 2025 

Posted on January 20, 2026

York University Libraries (YUL) acquires a significant number of electronic resources annually. While formats vary widely — for example, streaming audio and video, and digital archives, to name a few — it is ebooks and ejournals that form most of the Libraries’ ongoing collection building. YUL collects lots of both, so let’s look at some Top 10 lists for 2025! 

Top 10 ebooks used in 2025 

At the top of the list is the venerable OED, available online, with 5,429 unique uses in 2025. “Legacies of violence: history, society, and the state in Sardinia” rounds out the list with 1,478 unique uses. 

  1. Oxford English Dictionary 
  1. Social science : a very short introduction 
  1. Classics of moral and political theory 
  1. Mahmoud 
  1. Crime, deviance, and social control in the 21st century 
  1. Business and society: a critical introduction 
  1. Maternal theory 
  1. A violent history of benevolence : interlocking oppression in the moral economies of social working 
  1. MATLAB : a practical introduction to programming and problem solving (5th edition) 
  1. Legacies of violence : history, society, and the state in Sardinia 

            Top 10 ejournals used in 2025 

            HBR remains a very popular title with 23,608 unique uses in 2025, giving it a commanding first-place position. “Nature” and “Science” remain perennial favourites, as do the seminal Canadian journals “The Canadian historical review” and the “Journal of Canadian studies”.  

            1. Harvard business review 
            1. Nature 
            1. Science 
            1. Psychometrika 
            1. The Lancet 
            1. Journal of the American Chemical Society 
            1. The Canadian historical review 
            1. Science of the total environment 
            1. Journal of business ethics 
            1. Journal of Canadian studies = Revue d'études canadiennes 

                  Special thanks to the members of the Libraries' Content Development & Analysis team for their work in compiling these lists!