Collections update: Springer Mathematics and Statistics EBA 2025-26

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We are pleased to announce the Springer Mathematics and Statistics EBA has been renewed for another year. This rolling subscription model covers the last four years of publications (2022-2025), providing the most up to date research in Maths and Statistics for students. Over 2,000 DRM-free ebooks and conference proceedings are available through this subscription and records will continue to be added to iDiscover as titles are made available on the platform. A link to the subscribed material can also be accessed through the ebooks@cambridge libguide, under ‘Find ebooks’.

With this being an Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) scheme, Cambridge STEMM Librarians will use the full annual subscription fee to purchase perpetual access to the most popular and useful titles available in this package. Titles from the previous yearly subscription, covering the years 2021-2024, have recently been selected and are now available in perpetuity.

Titles in this subscription cover a range of topics in the disciplines of Mathematics and Statistics and will be of interest to those studying in these areas. Please see below for a selection of new titles, with links to their iDiscover records beneath the images.

• Stochastic Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
• The End(s) of Knowledge
• Stories Behind Theorems: Conversations with Mathematicians
• New Directions in Relevant Logic
• Very First Steps in Random Walks: The Power of Combinatorial Methods and Generating Functions
• Tessellations with Stars and Rosettes: Practical Constructions with Interactive Geometry Software
• Engineering Mathematics by Example: Vol. III, Special Functions and Transformations
• Mathematics and Education in an AI Era: Cognitive Science, Technological, and Semiotic Perspectives

Please do get in touch with us at ebooks@cambridge if you have any questions or would like to know more about the Springer Mathematics and Statistics EBA.

Collections update: Springer Nature Synthesis Collection of Technology 2025

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Thanks to Cambridge University STEMM Libraries the Synthesis 2025 collection has been purchased in perpetuity; this adds to the previously acquired annual collections and coverage now spans publication years 2005-2025.

“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.” [From the publisher’s website.]

Key topics covered in this collection include:

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Computer Architecture
• Human Language Technologies
• Human-Centered Informatics
• Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
• Circuits and Systems
• Mathematics and Statistics

New and emerging research areas include:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Management
• Data Mining
• Human Language Technologies (HLT)
• Human Centered Informatics (HCI)
• Computer Architecture

All title records are available in iDiscover. Please see below for a sample list of titles from the 2025 collection (there are approximately 128 new titles being added). The links will take you directly to the relevant iDiscover record;

• Cathodic Protection of Marine Vessels
• Information Architecture and UX Design : The Integration of Information Spaces
• Smart Water Resource Management : A Practical Introduction
• A Journey into Security Certification From the Cloud to Artificial Intelligence
• Adapting Engineering Education to a Rapidly Changing World
• Fundamentals of Plastics Thermoforming (2nd ed.)
• Physics and Mathematics Behind Wave Dynamics
• On Raising a Digital Human A Personal Evolution
• Just Technology The Quest for a Sustainable Society (2nd ed.)
• Trustworthy Communications and Complete Genealogies Unifying Ancestries for a Genealogical History of the Modern World (3rd ed.)

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: IEEE Princeton University Press STEMM Collection

Cambridge University readers have had access to the Princeton University Press eBooks Library collection hosted on the IEEE Xplore platform as of July 2023. We are pleased to announce that the latest annual collection has recently been added and users now have access to selected STEMM titles published from 1945 through to 2024. All available titles are purchased in perpetuity. The collection includes a wide variety of scientific titles on the cutting edge of research and titles from famous thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. 

The collection can be found directly on the IEEE Xplore platform, the ebooks@cambridge LibGuide, or through individual titles searches on iDiscover.  

Some of the most popular titles include: 

• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger – Marc Levinson 
• “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World – Kelly Chudler; Ellen Ullman
• Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing – Chris Bail
• The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition: How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career – Stephen B. Heard
• Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts – Tristan Needham
• Advanced Classical Electromagnetism – Robert Wald 

For any questions, problems, or content recommendations, please contact the ebooks@cambridge team. 

Ebooks in 2020-21: Technology

This blog post will look at subscriptions, collections and individual ebook titles purchased for and by the School of Technology in the last academic year.

Subscriptions and collections

Over 350 Morgan & Claypool ebooks in Engineering and Computer Science were purchased in 2020-21 with titles available in the following collections:

• Synthesis 1
• Synthesis 2
• Computer & Information Science 2
• Computer & Information Science 3
• Computer & Information Science 10
• plus 6 extra AI & Machine Learning titles that Cambridge didn’t already have access to

The Morgan & Claypool ebooks (or “lectures”) synthesise important research and development topics and are authored by prominent contributors to the respective fields, creating a rich and authoritative resource for students, teachers and researchers. The ebooks are available as PDFs and are fully downloadable and DRM-free. Available titles are searchable in iDiscover, or you can browse on the platform via the collection links listed above.

Following a two-month trial in the spring, we also took out a one year subscription to O’Reilly for Higher Education, an extensive online collection comprising instruction and reference works in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and STEMM, and with a particular strength in Engineering.

From the O’Reilly for Higher Education LibGuide:

“The O’Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes nearly 44,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need.”

You can find more information on ProQuest’s O’Reilly for Higher Education LibGuide here.

Available ebooks from O’Reilly for Higher Education are available in iDiscover. Alternatively, you can search for titles on the platform here.

Title-by-title purchases

Please see below for a small sample of individual ebook titles purchased by the School of Technology in 2020-21. All of these titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.

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• 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
• Assessing Social Impact of Social Enterprises: Does One Size Really Fit All?
• Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers
• Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations
• Fundamentals of queueing theory (5th edition)
• Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
• Leadership by Algorithm: Who Leads and Who Follows in the AI Era?
• Principles of Marketing (18th edition)

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• Bioprocess Engineering Principles
• Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level
• Mechanics of Materials (9th edition)
• Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook (9th Edition)
• Process Industry Economics: Principles, Concepts and Applications
• The Nanobiotechnology Handbook

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• A Concise Introduction to Machine Learning
• Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Introduction Using Java
• Introduction to Deep Learning: From Logical Calculus to Artificial Intelligence
• Introduction to Modern Cryptography (3rd edition)
• Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (3rd Edition)
• Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language

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• Biomechanics of Movement: The Science of Sports, Robotics, and Rehabilitation
• Corporate Sustainability in Practice: A Guide for Strategy Development and Implementation
• Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (10th Edition)
• Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design (4th edition)
• Piling Engineering (3rd edition)
• Sustainability (2nd Edition)
• The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain: A history
• The Machine That Changed the World
• Water Technology: An Introduction for Environmental Scientists and Engineers (3rd Edition)

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• Avatar, Assembled: the social and technical anatomy of digital bodies
• Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics
• Critical code studies
• GPS
• Sustainability principles and practice (3rd edition)
• Your computer is on fire

New subscription to O’Reilly for Higher Education

The ebooks team are delighted to announce that a year-long subscription has been taken out to O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE). University staff and students had access to OHE through a two-month trial in the spring, and the new paid-for access has followed on seamlessly from the trial thanks to flexibility from O’Reilly.

OHE holds titles of interest across the Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences/STEMM board but with a particular strength in technology.

As before, iDiscover holds records for individual titles from O’Reilly. Here is the Raven-authenticated direct link for anyone who would like to explore the ebooks and multimedia material directly on the platform: http://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://go.oreilly.com/university-of-cambridge.

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*

New Morgan and Claypool ebooks

The ebooks@cambridge team is pleased to announce that over 350 new Morgan and Claypool titles have been purchased and are now available to University staff and students, with records in iDiscover.

The new titles are from the following ebook collections (links go straight to title lists on the M&C website):

• Synthesis 1
• Synthesis 2
• Computer & Information Science 2
• Computer & Information Science 3
• Computer & Information Science 10
• plus 6 extra AI & Machine Learning titles that Cambridge didn’t already have access to

These new additions will be of particular interest to Engineering and Computer Science students and researchers.

‘MyCollection’ Maths and Statistics ebooks on SpringerLink

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Cambridge University Libraries is pleased to announce that access has been opened up to Springer Mathematics and Statistics 2015-2020 ebook collections on SpringerLink.

There are currently about 2,700 available titles, and further titles will be added as they are published. Monographs, contributed volumes, handbooks and textbooks in Springer designated sub-disciplines such as Partial Differential Equations, Functional Analysis, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Physics, Topology, Game Theory, Integral Equations, and Engineering Fluid Dynamics are included in these collections.

Records for these DRM-free titles will be loaded into iDiscover over the next few days, and are accessible for unlimited concurrent users, both on and off campus via a Raven login.

These yearly collections will be available in full until the 31st December 2020 in the first instance, at which point some of the most popular titles will be purchased in perpetuity.

Selective titles in Engineering, Computer Science and Architecture have also been purchased in perpetuity and will be searchable in iDiscover very soon.

A taster of available titles are listed below:

• Ockendon – Waves and Compressible Flow
• Fomenko – Homotopical Topology
• Shumway – Time Series Analysis and Its Applications
• Campbell – An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics
• Langtangen – A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (5th ed.)
• Kauffman – Handbook of Sustainable Engineering
• Paar – Understanding Cryptography
• Mordechai – Mathematical Logic for Computer Science

MyCopy Service

University of Cambridge registered users can order their own soft print versions of licensed Springer ebook titles for £24.99 each. You can order directly from each individual ebook title homepage. See https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/products/ebooks/my-copy for further details.

New ebooks – December 2019

Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during December. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.

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• Author Unknown : The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome
• A Family of Gods: the Worship of the Imperial Family in the Latin West
• Arabic literature in a posthuman world : proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Association for Modern Arabic Literature
• Aristotle and Early Christian Thought
• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to the Enlightenment
• Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: the Roles of Powerful Women and Queens
• Creaturely Poetics : Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film
• Family Lexicon
• Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage
• La scrittura infinita di Alberto Arbasino : studi su Fratelli d’Italia
• Luigi Meneghello
• Method and Variation : Narrative in Early Modern French Thought
• Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
• Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England : Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture
• Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings
• Screening Nature : Cinema Beyond the Human
• The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy : History, Politics, Society

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• Climate Psychology
• Data-Driven Learning for the Next Generation: Corpora and DDL for Pre-tertiary
• Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Militant Democracy
• New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law
• Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate
• Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools: Overcoming the Barriers to Effective Practice
• The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000
• The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
• The Judicialization of Politics in Asia
• The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education
• The Storytelling School: (Handbook for Teachers)

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Covers of a selection of Science, Technology and Medicine ebooks purchased in December

• 500 Single Best Answers in Medicine
• Evaluating Training Programs: the Four Levels (3rd ed.)
• Genomics and Molecular Genetics of Plant-Nematode Interactions 
• Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World
• Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health
• Quantum Tunnelling in Condensed Media
• Rhoton’s Atlas of Head, Neck, and Brain : 2D and 3D Images
• The Complete Family Office Handbook : a Guide for Affluent Families and the Advisers who Serve Them
• The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics 

New ebooks – October/November

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that there was no ‘New ebooks’ blogpost last month; the ebooks@cambridge team was just a bit too busy processing the start-of-term flood of requests (all very welcome of course). We are making up for it this month with a double issue for October and November.

As usual, the covers below are just a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection* during October and November. A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, click on the cover images below to access the titles via our authenticated links.

*Titles purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

Arts & Humanities | Humanities & Social Sciences | Business & Management | STEM

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