UPDATE: As of 2022/23, we are no longer subscribed to Perlego.
Cambridge staff and students now have temporary access via HathiTrust to over quarter of a million ebooks! Our colleagues in Electronic Collection Management have written a blog post about this: HathiTrust ETAS collection access now available – Electronic Collection Management (wordpress.com)
Good news – East View have generously extended trial access for Cambridge staff and students to the Rossiiskaia gazeta and Novaia gazeta ejournal backfiles and to the Essential Russian Classics eBook Collection until 30 September 2020.
For more information about these resources, please see this blog post which dates from when they first became available to us: https://europeancollections.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/extra-russian-eresources-now-available/
In March, JSTOR worked with their publisher partners to open up 35,000+ scholarly monograph titles to academic library communities to support the sudden shift to remote teaching, learning, and researching. Further information about this initial scheme is available from this blog post published in April. While this initiative was originally due to end on the 30th June, many of these participating publishers have now agreed to extend access until the 31st of August. More than 32,000 front list and back list titles from 48 publishers will be included in this second tranche. You can download a title list from this link.
Participating publishers include:
Title records will appear in iDiscover soon. You can also search the JSTOR platform to find the temporary titles alongside our owned ebook and ejournal collections.
Guest post by Jo Milton, University of Cambridge Medical Library.
Bookshelf is one of the key features of ClinicalKey Student. With this facility you are able to
Bookshelf is usable through a browser or can be downloaded via an app to various devices (Android, IoS, Windows 10+ and Mac Desktop / Laptop) for offline access.
NOTE: When using Bookshelf for the first time you need to be in a book chapter before you click the ‘Launch Bookshelf’ link. After this you can access Bookshelf from the ‘Bookshelf’ link at the top of the screen or from within a book chapter.
To use the Bookshelf facility search for a title and select a chapter and click on the Launch Bookshelf button;
Select a chapter.
The icons on the left hand side of the column enable features such as notebook, flashcards or view images associated with each chapter. Tooltips display when you hover over an icon.
Example of highlighted text and copying of citation.
At the bottom of the screen – options include adding bookmarks, fast highlighting and reading aloud of the text.
By clicking on the Bookshelf link from the main screen you can view all the books on Your Shelf and see your notes etc.
For more information view Launching the Bookshelf this one-minute video demonstrates the steps to launch Bookshelf for the first time and the different access points to the Bookshelf.
Bookshelf can also be used offline via an app.
There are two types of Bookshelf apps:
For more information on the Bookshelf app please view this page
Please let us have your feedback on this feature and ClinicalKey Student. Trial access is until 31st August 2020. The platform can be accessed from the following link;
https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.clinicalkey.com/student/login
You send your feedback using this feedback form.
University of Cambridge registered students and staff have temporary access to ebook titles included in the following collections on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform; “All Access”, “Freedom Collection 2020” and “Freedom Collection Backlist” ebooks, until the 31st of July 2020.
The books are available from the following link:
https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.sciencedirect.com
Please let us know what you think about these collections by sending your feedback via the online form.
There are nearly 30,000 ebook titles available, spanning a wide range of subjects included in the following ScienceDirect “domains”;
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Social Sciences and Humanities
A selection of available titles are shown below.
All about driving from Boston to Niagara Falls, Canada and back
Special Collections and Archives at Queens' College - University of Cambridge, UK
language collections at the University of Cambridge
about more than the Music Collections at CB3
A library for librarians
The news blog for the University of Cambridge, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry Library
Sociology and Land Economy collections at the University of Cambridge
ejournals & databases : news, advice and updates on new content from the ejournals & databases team for Cambridge University
Borrowing e-books from your library is great - and we want to make it even better.
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