Trial access to Lived Places Publishing ebook collection until July 31st 2023

Update [dated 4th September 2023]. Following feedback during the trial period the Lived Places 2023 ebooks collection has been purchased in perpetuity. Blog post with further details to follow later in September 2023.

We are delighted to announce that Cambridge users now have trial access to the Lived Places Publishing ebook collection until July 31st 2023.

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) is an independent publisher of works in the Humanities and Social Sciences. LPP note in their mission statement that “[their] enterprise is committed to delivering curriculum-ready content that allows students to engage with global author voices exploring the intersection of social identity and place or context.”

Available to Cambridge users are titles in the following subject collections: Forced Migration Studies, Education Studies, Latinx Studies, Black Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Carceral Studies, Queer and LGBT+ Studies and Asian Studies.

Please see below for a sample of titles available:

• Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina
• Students, Teachers, Families, and a Socially Just Education: Rewriting the Grammar of Schooling to Unsettle Identities
• From Sleepless in Seattle to I Seoul You: Korean Gay Men and Cross-cultural Encounters in Transnational Times
• Life Lived Well as a Non-binary and Autistic Mental Health Advocate: Finding a Place of Hope
• Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability: Knowing What is Going On

Notes on using the ebook collection

Cambridge users can access the ebook collection using the Lived Places collection link, which can be found on the A-Z Databases and via the ebook platform list on the ebooks@cambridge LibGuide.

You may see a login page after clicking the link. This login page can be circumvented without creating an account by clicking “Lived Places Publishing” in the top left corner of the screen.

The LPP landing page shows recently published or featured titles. To see a wider selection, users can search by keyword using the search bar at the top of the screen or they can filter by Subject, Collection or Author.

Click the Filter button (orange circle) below the search bar to view filtering options.

Please also note that currently available titles will display “Read” and “Download” icons.

Forthcoming titles will either show a padlock or they will simply be listed without the Read and Download icons. The Lived Places website will soon be updated to make it clearer that these titles are forthcoming and are not yet available.

We are keen to hear your thoughts on this trial ebook collection! Please send feedback or questions to the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk

Suz Edgar

Al Manhal eLibrary: access until 31st January 2022

University of Cambridge registered students and staff now have temporary access to the Al Manhal eLibrary until the 31st of January 2021.

Please let us know what you think about this collection by sending your feedback via the online form.

Two students using a laptop in a library

The Al-Manhal database provides access to thousands of eBooks, Journals, Theses & Dissertations and Reports from and about the Middle East.

Subject Coverage :

Art • Art and Architecture • Business & Economics • Contemporary References • Classical Literature • Educational Science • History, Geography & Biography • Islamic Heritage • Islamic Studies • Language & Literature • Law • Media and Communication • Political Science & International Relations • Science and Technology • Social Sciences

Key features

• Full-text searchable publications

• Languages: Arabic, English, French, and others.

• Personal bookshelves that can be accessed offline through the App (IOS & Android)

• Highlighting, bookmarking, annotating and text-to-speech

• Copy/paste and printing with automatic citations

eBooks Collection

Al Manhal offers over 19,000 of eBooks from the Arab world’s leading publishers, across a diverse range of topics, with more being added every week. The eBook collections are available in the following subject areas:

Example ebook title display on Al Manhal

Journals Collection

Al-Manhal Journals collections include an exclusive selection of over 450 peer-reviewed Journals with over 71,466 articles in English and Arabic languages published in the Arab world in the following subject collections:

Example ejournal title volumes on Al Manhal

Theses & Dissertations Collection

Provides over 9,000 of full-text searchable Theses & Dissertations from the most prominent academic foundations across the Middle East. This collection is comprised of scholarly work from masters’ and Doctoral graduates from all departments of academia and across the full spectrum of research foci.

Reports Collection

This includes a wide range of publications from 2007 onward that includes working papers, research reports, essays, policy briefs, newspaper articles, case studies and conference proceedings from the leading think tanks and research institutes across the Middle East. It is a vital tool for any practitioner or researcher of Middle Eastern affairs. The growing list of over 12,000 publications provides coverage of:

Arab-Israeli affairs • Elections and changes of government across the region • Social issues such as education, healthcare, immigration, refugees and asylum • Wars, treatises, and diplomacy • Military, defense and security • Terrorism and issues of internal security • Legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements

Reading books offline using the App

• Create your personal account on the platform.
• Add the title to your bookshelf using the side-bar tool called ‘Add to Bookshelf’.
• Open the App and choose the ‘Sync with Platform’ option from the side navigation menu.
• Sign in using your Platform credentials, then the Sync will automatically begin!

Al Manhal App

InteLex Dewey collections – temporary access until 14 April

John Dewey, (c) Library of Congress

Academic Rights Press has generously granted University of Cambridge registered staff and students temporary access to their Dewey collections until 14 April 2021.

Three Dewey collections are included on the Intelex Past Masters platform and should be of particular interest to those teaching and researching in HPS, Philosophy, Education, and Psychology:

Dewey: Collected Works (Second Release)

Dewey: Correspondence, I-IV

Dewey: Lectures (2nd Release)

Please tell us what you think of the Dewey collections using the feedback form.  Cambridge had trial access to these collections last year too, and we hope that this year’s repeat trial will demonstrate likely usage for sure.  

 

 

O’Reilly for Higher Education – trial access until *30* April

Cambridge staff and students now have trial access to O’Reilly for Higher Education.  This will be of particular interest for those studying and teaching technology and business.  From O’Reilly promotional material:

“O’Reilly includes tech and business content from more than 250 publishers – along with videos, case studies, expert-curated learning paths and self-assessments on exclusive O’Reilly-produced content from world-renowned innovators and corporate leaders.

“The platform includes more than 35K book titles plus 30K+ hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly’s global conferences and 250 of the world’s best publishers.

“More than 2.25 million professionals in more than 4,000 businesses and government agencies learn with us every day. O’Reilly for Higher Education, complements classroom curriculum, prepares users for future careers, and encourages lifelong learning.”

Titles for the O’Reilly titles are in iDiscover.  Our staff and students can also browse content directly on the O’Reilly website here: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/temporary-access/ (select “University of Cambridge” from the dropdown list).

Please try the site out and send feedback to ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk or to your faculty librarian.  While the trial generously lasts until 20 April, we would be grateful for feedback as soon as possible!

*UPDATED 26/4/21 IN CONNECTION WITH TRIAL EXTENSION*

Miras Maktoob ebook collection – trial access until 24 March

Cambridge staff and students now have temporary access (until 24 March) to this exciting resource via Brill.  The collection contains over 240 volumes in Persian and Arabic “originally published by the Written Heritage Research Institute (Miras Maktoob), a non-governmental organisation in Tehran … on Islamic history and culture in the broadest sense.” (from Brill’s description)

A record for each volume is in iDiscover, but the full list of the collection’s contents can be seen in this spreadsheet: Miras Maktoob listing.

Please send feedback about the collection to ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.  Thank you!

Access to East View eresources extended to the end of September

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/

Al Manhal eLibrary : access until 31st July 2020

University of Cambridge registered students and staff now have temporary access to the Al Manhal eLibrary until the 31st of July 2020.

Please let us know what you think about this collection by sending your feedback via the online form.

Al Manhal offers over 15,000 of ebooks from the Arab world’s leading publishers, across a diverse range of topics, with more being added every week.

Al Manhal ebook collections are available in the following subject areas: • Law • Educational Science • History, Geography & Biography • Social Sciences • Business & Economics • Language & Literature • Islamic Studies • Political Science & International Relations • Media and Communication • Art • Art and Architecture • Contemporary References • Classical Literature • Science and Technology • Heritage

Key features

• Full-text searchable publications

• Languages: Arabic, English, French

• Personal bookshelves that can be accessed offline through the App (IOS & Android)

• Highlighting, bookmarking, annotating and text-to-speech

• Copy/paste and printing with automatic citations

• ebook content matches original print 100%

Journals Collection

Al-Manhal Journals collections include an exclusive selection of over 450 peer-reviewed Journals with over 81,514 articles in English and Arabic languages published in the Arab world in the following subject collections: • Educational Science • Psychology & Philosophy • History, Geography & Biography • Social Sciences • Business & Economics • Language & Literature • Islamic Studies • Islamic Banking & Finance • Political Science & International Relations • Law • Science & Technical • Medical • Media and Communication • Art and Architecture

• Languages: Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Malay & Urdu

Dissertations & Theses Collection

Provides over 9,000 of full-text searchable dissertations from the most prominent academic foundations across the Middle East. This collection is comprised of scholarly work from master’s and Doctoral graduates from all departments of academia and across the full spectrum of research foci.

Reports: Middle East Strategic Studies Online (MESSO)

Middle East Strategic Studies Online (MESSO) is the most comprehensive source for research, intelligence and analysis in Middle East affairs. The database includes a wide range of publications from 2007 onward that includes working papers, research reports, essays, policy briefs, newspaper articles, case studies and conference proceedings from the leading think tanks and research institutes across the Middle East. MESSO is a vital tool for any practitioner or researcher of Middle Eastern affairs. It focuses on political, economic, social and security issues across the region. The growing list of over 10,000 publications provides coverage of:
• Arab-Israeli affairs • Elections and changes of government across the region • Social issues such as education, healthcare, immigration, refugees and asylum • Wars, treatises, and diplomacy • Military, defense and security • Terrorism and issues of internal security • Legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements

Reading books offline using the App

Make sure you have a personal account on Al-Manhal and you are signed in.

• Add your favorite titles to your bookshelf using the side-bar tool called ‘Add to Bookshelf’.

• Download the Al Manhal App on your device from Apple Appstore or Google Play Store.

• From within the app choose ‘Sync with Platform’ option from the side navigation menu.

• Sign in using your Platform credentials, then the Sync will automatically begin!

• All books currently present on your Platform Bookshelf will be listed on the App for you to download any of them.

An online user manual is available from the following link:

https://platform-almanhal-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/Help/UserManual

Russian ebook platforms from MIPP – temporary access

The University of Cambridge has trial access to three Russian ebook platforms through MIPP International until the 1st of June 2020: BiblioPlanet, BiblioRossica, and Non-Fiction Library (Biblioteka Non-fikshn). Together, these give Cambridge staff and students access to over 160,000 ebook titles.

A brief summary of the three platforms can be found on the ejournals blog, in this post, and a slightly fuller exploration is on the European languages across borders blog in this post.

Please tell us what you think of these collections using the feedback form.

From the UL’s Catherine Cooke collection

InteLex Past Masters collections – temporary access

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Academic Rights Press has generously granted University of Cambridge registered staff and students free access to Works, Letters, Writings, Diaries, Lectures, Correspondences, Dialogues, and ‘Oeuvres’ written by the likes of Aquinas, Burney, Dewey, Eliot, Gladstone, Plato, Spencer and Wollstonecraft, until the newly extended date of the 31st of July 2020.

The collections of 21 different authors (including the newly published Kant : Vorlesungen collection) have been activated and are available from the following link (using your Raven login);

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=http://pm.nlx.com/

Photo by Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash

Click on the links below to access the collections;

Anselm of Canterbury: Major Works

Aquinas: Collected Works

Austen, Jane: Complete Works and Letters

Austin, J. L.: Works

Ayer: Writings

Bacon: Letters and Life

Bacon: Major Works

Behn: Works

Bonaventure: Works (Second Release)

Burney: Journals and Letters

Defoe: Works

Dewey: Collected Works (Second Release)

Dewey: Correspondence, I-IV

Dewey: Lectures (2nd Release)

Eliot, George: Complete Works

Gladstone: Diaries

Hobbes: English Works

Kant: Vorlesungen – new addition

Locke: Philosophical Works

Pascal: Oeuvres Complètes

Plato: Collected Dialogues

Plato: Collected Dialogues (Greek)

Plato: Collected Dialogues (Greek and English)

Spencer: Complete Works

Spinoza: Opera

Wollstonecraft: Works

Please tell us what you think of this collection using the feedback form.

BibliU opens up temporary textbook access for the University of Cambridge

BibliU is an e-textbook provider who, together with their partners in the academic publishing community, has opened up a really useful selection of textbook titles for current staff and students at the University of Cambridge. This free access will be enabled until the 30th June 2020. It’s easy to access the textbooks, please click on the link below and you will be taken in to the BibliU platform, after selecting the ‘University of Cambridge’ and via your Raven login.

http://bibliu.com/users/saml/samlCambridge

Two collections are available on BibliU;

“Core eTextbooks” from the following publishers: 
Oxford University Press, SAGE, Elsevier, Pearson, Cengage, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill (selected titles), Bloomsbury, FA Davis, Springer Nature, WW Norton, and Guilford Press. Critical and popular books, such as Oxford Chemistry Primers and key titles for Education students published by SAGE, are included in this collection.

A “Wellness and Study Skills Collection” of titles is also available on the platform.

The titles will be searchable in iDiscover very soon.

A short but helpful YouTube video intended as a quick start guide to BibliU can be accessed from this link. There is also a BibliU App which may be of interest if you wish to download books offline.

Key features of using textbooks on BibliU

• Use on computers, tablets and phones.
• Adjust colours and text size.
• Make notes.
• Download books to use offline.
• Search in a single book or across multiple books.
• Use ‘text to speech’ to read aloud.
• Highlight.
• Favourite your most used books for easy access.

A selection of titles you can find on BibliU are showcased below…

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