Collections update: Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences EBA 2025-26

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Completing the Springer EBA trilogy, we are also pleased to announce that the Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences EBA has been renewed for another year. As with both the Springer Mathematics and Statistics EBA, and Springer Engineering EBA, this rolling subscription model provides access to the last four years of publications (2022-2025). The Biomedical and Lifesciences EBA makes available over 2,900 DRM-free ebooks and conference proceedings, covering subjects such as: agriculture, plant sciences, biotechnology, and food science.

A link filtering for subscribed material can be accessed via the ebooks@cambridge libguide, under ‘Find ebooks’. Records to titles can also be found on iDiscover, with new texts added as they are published. As an Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) scheme, the full annual subscription fee will be used by Cambridge STEMM librarians to purchase perpetual access to the most popular titles. Titles from the previous yearly subscription, covering the years 2021-2024, have recently been selected and are now available in perpetuity.

Please see below for a selection of new titles, with links to their iDiscover records beneath the images.

• Blood: The Science, History, and Mysteries of Life’s Vital Flow
• Wildlife in the Natural Garden: A Journey of Discovery
• Wetland Ecosystems: Conservation Strategies, Policy Management and Applications
• Artificial Intelligence in Human Health and Diseases
• Medical Genetics and Law: An International Perspective
• Can Potatoes Feed the World?
• Exercise Brain Stimulation for Cognitive Function and Mental Health
• Ice Cream

Further details about our other EBA renewals can be found in our Springer Mathematics and Statistics EBA blogpost, and the Springer Engineering EBA blogpost. Please do get in touch with us at ebooks@cambridge if you have any questions or would like to know more about the Springer EBAs.

Collections update: Springer STEMM EBAs 2024-25 & Springer Synthesis 2024

Renewal: Biomedical & Life Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics & Statistics EBAs

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We are pleased to announce that we have renewed our three popular Springer ebook EBA subscriptions (Biomedical & Life Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics & Statistics) for another year. This “rolling” subscription model covers the four most recent years (2021-24, over 8,600 titles), so that Cambridge users will always have access to the most up-to-date research, conference publications and teaching works in these collections, including new content as it’s published through the rest of 2024. All available title records are searchable in iDiscover.

These subscriptions are also Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) schemes, which means that Cambridge STEMM Librarians use the full annual subscription fees to purchase perpetual access to the most popular and useful titles from the subscriptions. Subject Librarians selected 155 titles from our previous years subscription and these are now permanently owned outright. Please see below for examples of recently purchased ebooks across the three subject areas. The titles are hyperlinked and will take you to the relevant book on the SpringerLink platform.

• Lectin in Host Defense Against Microbial Infections
• The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
• The Art of Theoretical Biology
• Environment, Climate, Plant and Vegetation Growth
• New World Tarantulas
• Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
• Engineering Assets and Public Infrastructures in the Age of Digitalization
• Future Trends in Biomedical and Health Informatics and Cybersecurity in Medical Devices
• Advances in Ergonomics in Design
• Wood & Fire Safety: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Wood & Fire Safety 2020
• Algebraic Geometry I: Schemes
• Explorations in Complex Functions
• Geometric Analysis: In Honor of Gang Tian’s 60th Birthday
• Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fundamentals, Research and Applications
• Galois Cohomology and Class Field Theory

Purchase: Springer Synthesis Collection of Technology 2024

The Synthesis 2024 collection has been purchased in perpetuity; this adds to the previously purchased annual collections and coverage now spans publication years 2005-2024.

To quote from the publishers’ website;

“The Synthesis Collection of Technology provides coverage of leading edge topics across the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Books in this collection are based on techniques, reviews and course notes and defined as “lectures”. These are short, focused books, consisting of around 75-150 pages, bridging the gap between a journal article and an average book. These books tend to have rapid development cycles, publishing research on hot topics as soon as these emerge. Besides emerging topics, Synthesis books also contain principles, fundamentals, methods, models and applications containing practical, accessible information on recent innovations in fast-moving research areas.”

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All records are available in iDiscover. Please see below for a sample list of titles from the 2024 collection (there are approximately 115 new titles being added). The links will take you directly to the relevant ebook on SpringerLink:

• The Traveling Salesman Problem
• The Future of Long Covid: A Threatcasting Approach
• AI Chatbots: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Artificial Intelligence in Vision-Based Structural Health Monitoring
• The Role of Fuels in Transforming Energy End-Use in Buildings and Industrial Processes
• Lifelong and Continual Learning Dialogue Systems
• Scaling Up: How Data Curation Can Help Address Key Issues in Qualitative Data Reuse and Big Social Research
• Quality and Lean Six Sigma for Engineering Technicians

As ever, please do get in touch with the ebooks team if you have any questions about any Springer ebook content. Or, indeed, anything at all related to ebooks! We’re always very happy to help. Write to: ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk