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 Engineering EBA 2025-2026

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Further to our renewal of the Springer Mathematics and Statistics EBA, we are pleased to announce that the Springer Engineering EBA has also been renewed for another year. This rolling subscription model covers the last four years of publication (2022-2025), presenting the latest research for Engineering students. This subscription provides access to over 6,000 DRM-free ebooks and conference proceedings, with topics covering areas such as mechanical engineering, building construction and design, and computational intelligence.

A link to subscribed material can be found on the ebooks@cambridge libguide, under ‘Find ebooks’. Records will also continue to be added to iDiscover as titles are published. As this is 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, showcasing the breadth of material available, with links to their iDiscover records beneath the images.

• AI on the Edge with Security: Foundations and Practices
• LegalTech and Legal-AI in Business: Major and Promising Sectors of Economy
• Integrated Bioeletrochemical-Constructed Wetland System for Future Sustainable Wastewater Treatment
• Urban Coasts in Socio-ecological Transition: A Methodological Framework to Support Planning and Management of the City-Sea Interface
• Spiritual Artificial Intelligence (SAI): Towards a New Horizon
• Advances in Data-driven Computing and Intelligent Systems: Selected Papers from ADCIS 2024, Volume 1
• Quatum Nonlinear Function Obfuscation Theory and Application
• Cellular Radio Access Networks: RF Fundamentals and Protocols

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

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: Bloomsbury Collections EBA 2025-26

The ebooks@cambridge team is pleased to announce the launch of an evidence-based acquisitions (EBA) scheme for titles hosted on the Bloomsbury Collections platform. This is the second EBA scheme Cambridge University Libraries have offered for Bloomsbury published ebooks (the first scheme ran during the 2023-24 academic year). This new scheme allows us to open up unlimited concurrent and DRM-free access to over 4500 titles. The content opened up for access cover many 2024-2025 published subject collections as well as thousands of older publications included in archive collections across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Frontlist subjects include Archaeology, Architecture, Arts and Visual Culture, Asia Studies, Classical Studies, Creative Writing, Design, Education, Film and Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Middle East, Music and Sound, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Religious Studies and Theology. Backlist titles cover African Studies, Biblical Studies, Cultural Studies, Development and Economics, Drama and Performance, Fashion, Gender and Sexuality, and Latin American Studies and also reflect the frontlist subjects mentioned previously.

These titles are searchable in iDiscover until the end of July 2026, when a selection of 45-50 popular titles will be permanently purchased.

Please see below for a glimpse of what’s available in this new scheme. The iDiscover links are displayed above the relevant book jacket illustrations.

If you have any questions, please do get in touch with the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

• Power and Authority in Afghanistan: Rethinking Politics, Intervention and Rule
• Brand Lady Gaga: A Story of Branding in Music
• Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence : An Introduction to AI for Architects
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• China resurrected : a modern geopolitical history
• Esotericism in Western Culture: Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge
• Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations
• Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy

New ebook collections: Bloomsbury Subject Collections EBA 2021-2023

The ebooks@cambridge team is pleased to announce the launch of a new evidence-based (EBA) scheme which has allowed us to open up unlimited DRM-free access to around 1,850 extra titles on the Bloomsbury Collections platform. All titles published (and to be published) 2021-2023 in the following subject collections are included;

Africa, Asia and Latin American Studies; Art & Visual Culture; Biblical Studies; Classical Studies & Archaeology; Design; Education; Fashion; Film & Media Studies; History; Linguistics; Literary Studies; Middle East; Music & Sound Studies; Philosophy; Politics & International Relations; Religious Studies; and Theology.

These titles will be searchable in iDiscover until the end of July 2024, when a selection of around 55 of the most popular books, chosen in consultation with your faculty and College librarians, will be permanently purchased.

This is a fantastic new ebooks scheme which opens up a greater breadth of Bloomsbury ebooks for students in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences than ever before. This EBA scheme adds to previously purchased selective subject, archive and special collections as well as individually purchased titles, for all of which title records are searchable in iDiscover.

Please see below for a glimpse of the titles available in these new collections. Click here to skip to the list of iDiscover links.

If you have any questions, please do get in touch with the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk

Africa, Asia and Latin America Studies

Politics & International Relations

Design

Biblical Studies

Art & Visual Culture

Education

Architecture

Literary Studies

Classical Studies & Archaeology

Film & Media Studies

Middle East

Music & Sound Studies

Philosophy

Religious Studies

Theology

Linguistics

Literary Studies

History

List of iDiscover links

• Ghana: a Political and Social History
• A Nation in Crisis: Division, Conflict and Capitalism in the United Kingdom
• After Universal Design: the disability design revolution
• Before there was a Bible: Authorities in early Christianity
• Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation: the Everyday Textures of Feminist Activism
• The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education: an agenda for transformational change
• The Color of Modernism: paints, pigments, and the transformation of modern architecture in 1920s Germany
• Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: imagining futures and dreaming hope in literature and media
• Music: Antiquity and Its Legacy
• American Disaster Movies of the 1970s: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity
• Fada’i Guerrilla Praxis in Iran (1970–1979): Narratives and Reflections on Everyday Life
• Radiophilia
• Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology: Contemporary Readings
• Religion and inequality in Africa
• The persistence of evil: a cultural, literary and theological analysis
• Music, Dance & Translation
• Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics: a Union of Contraries
• Laughter and awkwardness in late medieval England: social discomfort in the literature of the Middle Ages

De Gruyter EBA: renewed for 2024

The UL’s evidence-based (EBA) scheme with De Gruyter has been renewed for another calendar year, taking it through to the end of 2024. Funded jointly by the UL’s Collection and Academic Liaison (from the English and German budgets), it will give Cambridge readers unlimited, DRM-free access to approximately 120,500 titles. As well as the various De Gruyter imprints, there are nearly thirty partner presses who participate in the EBA, including Edinburgh University Press, Gorgias Press, and Princeton University Press, among others. Records for titles are loaded monthly by the ebooks@cambridge team.

The EBA has now been running since 2016. With each renewal, we pay a deposit, and at the end of the period of the agreement, we are given the usage statistics and can select titles up to the value of the deposit, which we will then own in perpetuity, regardless of whether or not we continue with the EBA. Each year, we are generally able to purchase between 700 and 800 titles for permanent access.

This selection process normally takes place at the start of the year, so we will be selecting titles based on 2023 usage in January or February of 2024. If there are any titles you would like to recommend for permanent access, please do get in touch with the English Collections team (engcc@lib.cam.ac.uk).

Oxford Scholarship Online and Oxford Handbooks Online: renewed for 2023-24

I’m pleased to be able to say that the UL has renewed its evidence-based acquisition scheme (EBA) with Oxford Scholarship Online for another year, taking it to the end of June 2024. The scheme is quite straightforward: we pay a deposit upfront to Oxford University Press, and thousands of OUP ebooks are made available to us (unlimited and DRM-free) on the Oxford Academic platform, with new titles being added every month. At the end of the twelve-month period of the agreement, we use the deposit to purchase titles for perpetual access. This year, the EBA is being funded by the UL’s Collections and Academic Liaison, with the Squire Law Library paying for the Law module of the scheme. As we have agreed the EBA for another year, our access to all the unowned content will continue seamlessly.

We have also purchased the 2023 updates for all of the Oxford Handbooks Online. Like OSO, the OHO platform is updated monthly, with new chapters being uploaded; the print edition of each handbook is only issued once it is complete, so our OHO access means that we have the most up-to-date access to the content.

A selection of some of the most heavily used titles on the Oxford Scholarship Online platform over the past twelve months can be seen below (click here to skip to the list of iDiscover links). If you have any questions about either resource, please do get in touch with the English Collections team (engcc@lib.cam.ac.uk).

• Amazons, Savages, And Machiavels : Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology
• Antimony, Gold, And Jupiter’s Wolf : How the Elements Were Named
• Catholics And Treason : Martyrology, Memory, and Politics in the Post-Reformation
• Collaborative Insights : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course
• Cooperating With The Colossus : A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
• Dante, Artist Of Gesture
• Human-Centered AI
• The Image Of God : The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning
• La Nijinska : Choreographer of the Modern
• On Revolutions : Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World
• Plutarch’s Cities
• W. S. Graham : The Poem as Art Object

De Gruyter EBA renewal (2023)

I’m pleased to announce that the UL’s evidence-based (EBA) scheme with De Gruyter has been renewed for another calendar year. Funded jointly by the UL English and German budgets, it will give Cambridge readers access to approximately 114,500 titles in 2023. As well as the various De Gruyter imprints, there are nearly thirty partner presses (chiefly US-based) who participate in the EBA, such as Harvard, New York, and Texas University Press. A new partner press is Berghahn Books, whose content has started to be added to the platform (and appearing in iDiscover).

The EBA has now been running since 2016. With each renewal, we pay a deposit, and at the end of the period of the agreement, we are given the usage statistics and can select titles up to the value of the deposit, which we will then own in perpetuity, regardless of whether or not we continue with the EBA. Each year, we are generally able to purchase between 700 and 800 titles, all with unlimited and DRM-free access.

We will soon be starting this selection process for the past calendar year. A handful of titles purchased based on 2021 usage can be seen below (click here to skip to the list of iDiscover links). If you have any questions about the De Gruyter EBA, please do get in touch with the English Collections team (engcc@lib.cam.ac.uk).

• Bibliophilos : Books and Learning in the Byzantine World
• Distant Shores : Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier
• The Form of Love : Poetry’s Quarrel with Philosophy
• Genesis and Validity : The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History
• Hans Sachs : Ein Handbuch
• Der Heilige Georg : Mittelhochdeutscher Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar und Materialien zur Stofftradition
• Histories of Racial Capitalism
• Mies van der Rohe Barcelona-Pavillon : Hundert Texte seit 1929
• Troubling Topics, Sacred Texts : Readings in Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an

De Gruyter EBA: renewed for 2022

I’m pleased to announce that the UL’s evidence-based (EBA) scheme with De Gruyter has been renewed for another calendar year. Funded jointly by the UL English and German budgets, it gives Cambridge readers access to approximately 92,000 titles. These are made up of the the outputs of the various De Gruyter imprints, as well as 23 (mainly US-based) partner presses who participate in the EBA, including Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard University Press; Edinburgh University Press is one of the most recent additions to the partner press list, and their content should start to appear on the De Gruyter platform (and in iDiscover) in 2022.

The EBA has now been running since 2016. With each renewal, we pay a deposit, and at the end of the period of the agreement, we are given the usage statistics and can select titles up to the value of the deposit, which we will then own in perpetuity, regardless of whether or not we continue with the EBA. Each year, we generally purchase somewhere in the region of 750-800 titles, across a variety of subject areas.

We will soon be starting this selection process for the past calendar year. A handful of titles purchased based on 2020 usage can be seen below.

• Close-Ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas
• A Velvet Empire : French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
• China und Asiens maritime Achse im Mittelalter : Konzepte, Wahrnehmungen, offene Fragen
• Composite Architecture : Building and Design with Carbon Fiber and FRPs
• Die Polis als Sieger : Kriegsdenkmäler im archaisch-klassischen Griechenland
• Geschichte und Dichtung : Die Ästhetisierung historischen Denkens von Winckelmann bis Fontane
• Greeks, Books and Libraries in Renaissance Venice
• Heavenly Fatherland : German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire
• Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropas. 1, Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ; Band 1: Herrschaft und Politik in Südosteuropa von der römischen Antike bis 1300
• Middle Assyrian Seal Motifs from Tell Fekheriye (Syria)
• Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World
• Stefan George – Ernst Morwitz : Briefwechsel (1905-1933)
• The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England : Moving Media, Tactical Publics
• The Buddhist Self : On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman
• Warten auf Godot? : Intellektuelle seit den 1960er Jahren

If you have any questions about the EBA, please do get in touch with the English Collections team (engcc@lib.cam.ac.uk).

Oxford Scholarship Online EBA: titles purchased for 2021

The UL has had an evidence-based acquisition scheme with Oxford University Press, using their Oxford Scholarship Online platform, since 2015. Each year, we pay a deposit, and are granted access to titles on OSO in subject areas in the arts and humanities; at the end of the term of the agreement, we then use the deposit to select a number of ebooks for outright purchase.

We renewed this scheme over the summer, and will continue to have access to the EBA titles on Oxford Scholarship Online until at least the end of next June. We’ve now finished our selection of ebooks to buy with last year’s deposit, and we have been able to purchase 150 in total. Thanks go to all the faculty and departmental librarians who sent in suggestions of titles which it would be particularly useful to own in perpetuity! A selection of recent (2020 and 2021) ebooks to which we now have permanent, unlimited and DRM-free access can be seen below.

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• Alexander Pope in the Making
• Bearing Witness While Black : African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism
• Born to Write : Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France
• Classicisms in the Black Atlantic
• Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics : Knowledges and Epistemes
• Guru Gobind Singh, 1666-1708 : Master of the White Hawk
• Imperialism and the Developing World : How Britain and the United Sates Shaped the Global Periphery
• Maya in the Bhagavata Purana : Human Suffering and Divine Play
• Pascal : Reasoning and Belief

New titles are added to the OSO platform each month, so the number of titles we can access keeps growing. If you have any questions about the scheme, please get in touch with the English Collections team (engcc@lib.cam.ac.uk).