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…
ebooks@cambridge 