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 

Collections update: Synthesis Collection of Technology

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The ebook collection formerly known as Morgan & Claypool has a new online home on SpringerLink under the name Synthesis Collection of Technology!

Cambridge users have access to 1200+ DRM-free Engineering, Computing and Mathematics ebooks in this collection. This includes titles that were previously in the Morgan & Claypool Synthesis, Computer & Information Science, and AI & Machine Learning collections (2005-2021) as well as new ebook collections purchased in 2022 and 2023.

Users can filter by Discipline, Subdiscipline from the menu bar on the left of the screen under Refine Your Search.

All records are available in iDiscover. Please see below for a sample list of titles from the 2023 collection. The links will take you directly to the relevant ebook on SpringerLink:

• Robotic Micromanipulation of Zebrafish Larva
• Ethical Tech Startup Guide
• Photobiomodulation for the Brain
• Periodic Motions to Chaos in a Spring-Pendulum System
• An Introduction to Programming Languages: Simultaneous Learning in Multiple Coding Environments
• Toward Robots That Reason: Logic, Probability & Causal Laws
• Monte Carlo Simulations Using Microsoft EXCEL®
• Keywords In and Out of Context
• Descriptive Statistics for Scientists and Engineers
• Essential Perturbation Methods

Please contact the ebooks team if you have any questions about the Synthesis Collection of Technology on SpringerLink. Contact us as ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Springer EBA updates – includes new Engineering subscription for 2023-24!

Renewal: Mathematics & Statistics and Biomedical & Life Sciences EBAs

We are pleased to announce that we have renewed our two popular Springer ebook subscriptions (Mathematics & Statistics and Biomedical & Life Sciences) for another year. This “rolling” subscription model covers the four most recent years (2020-23), 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 is published through the rest of 2023.

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 are currently selecting titles from our previous year’s subscription, which covered the years 2019-22. 

New: Springer Engineering EBA

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We are delighted to announce that we have recently added yet another subscription to our Springer EBA bow with the Springer Engineering collection! Over 5000 DRM-free Springer Engineering books and conference proceedings in the 2020-23 collections have now been opened up to Cambridge users. More new content will be made available throughout the rest of 2023 as it is published.

Please note that selected reference works are not included and will display as Preview Only, but the subscription covers the vast majority of recently published Engineering books available on the SpringerLink platform with a wealth of titles to suit a range of subdisciplines, including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Applications, Agriculture, Machine Learning, Biotechnology, Industrial and Production Engineering, Engineering Design, and many more. 

Users can filter by Content Type (Book, Chapter, Conference Proceeding, and Conference Paper), Discipline, Subdiscipline and Language via the menu bar on the left of the webpage.

The catalogue records are now available in iDiscover. More records will be added on a regular basis as newly published 2023 content becomes available on the Springer platform.

Please also see below for an example of recent works available through this new subscription. The titles are hyperlinked and will take you to the relevant book on the SpringerLink platform.

• Fundamentals of Railway Design
• Designing with the Wind: Climate-Derived Architecture
• Photonic Crystal and Its Applications for Next Generation Systems
• Processing-in-Memory for AI: From Circuits to Systems
• High Performance and Power Efficient Electrocardiogram Detectors

We hope that Cambridge Engineers will find this subscription a valuable addition to our existing Springer access.  

In Technology news, we can also let you know that the Morgan & Claypool purchased collections in Computer Science and Engineering have a new home now on SpringerLink, as part of the Springer Synthesis Collection of Technology collection. A separate blogpost about these collections will follow soon. 

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

New resource: McGraw Hill’s AccessEngineering

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Calling all Cambridge Engineers! Cambridge now has a one year subscription to McGraw Hill’s AccessEngineering platform until the end of July 2024.

This multi-format reference and teaching platform provides access to over 900 interdisciplinary engineering titles! Students can also make use of handy interactive learning tools, such as as data visualisation (DataVis), spreadsheets, videos, graphs & tables, solution walkthroughs, case studies and tutorials.

Students and researchers can read titles covering a wide range of subjects – from Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Environmental Engineering to Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering and many more.

The 900+ ebooks are all searchable in iDiscover and include handbooks, textbooks and reference works. Available collections also include Schaum’s Outlines, Makerspace, Code Commentary, Business Skills and Exam Prep.

Users can also browse the platform to find relevant content. You can browse by learning tool (Videos, DataVis, Spreadsheets, etc.) or you can filter by Subject, Industry, Course Outline, and Codes & Standards Commentary.

We hope that you will find a wealth of useful research and teaching resources contained within this AccessEngineering subscription.

Please do get in touch with the ebooks team if you would like any further information. You can write to us at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk