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: McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering renewal

Cambridge University STEMM Libraries have renewed McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering collection for 25/26. AccessEngineering is an engineering reference and teaching platform that delivers interdisciplinary engineering content integrated with analytical teaching and learning tools.For an overview about what the collection offers, please click on this link.

Engineering subject areas covered are; Aerospace, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer Science,Electrical, Energy, Engineering Management, Environmental, Industrial, Materials and Mechanical. Title records are searchable in iDiscover and new content is added to the platform through the subscription period.

Users can access engineering textbooks such as…
◦ Construction Planning, Equipment and Methods
◦ Water and Wastewater Engineering
◦ Energy Systems Engineering
◦ Design of Wood Structures
◦ Introduction to the Finite Element Method
◦ Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals

Users can also find Schaum’s Outlines, the study support guides for students on the platform, along with landmark reference texts such as Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, and Marks’
Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers.

With AccessEngineering, you can utilise;

• Spreadsheet calculators – to model engineering calculations
• Graphs and tables – for easier analysis of data
• DataVis™ Material Properties – to compare properties across different materials and evaluate multiple properties simultaneously
• Case studies – for real world examples of biomedical and other engineering applications
• Videos – offering step-by-step solutions to engineering problems.
• Solution walkthroughs – to review comprehensive step-by-step explanations of engineering problems
• Course outline – to browse content by subject, industry, course, or codes & standards

Some more recently published titles are linked to below;

• Mitigating bias in machine learning
• Steel, Concrete, and Composite Design of Tall and Supertall Buildings
• Aircraft basic science, 9th edition
• Advanced Mechanical Vibration: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
• 2024 International Building Code Illustrated Handbook

This page has video tutorials, a comprehensive LibGuide and other user guides providing step-by-step instructions on how to use AccessEngineering’s personalised research tools. If you have any queries about AccessEngineering then please get in touch with the ebooks team.

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: Institute of Physics (IOP) ebooks collections 2023-2025

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Cambridge University STEMM Libraries are pleased to announce that access is now available to a further 330 IOP published ebook titles (2023-2025) hosted on the IOPscience platform. Subjects covered include astronomy and astrophysics, biomedical engineering, environment and energy, medical physics and biophysics and quantam science.

The annual collections include partner series titles published within AAS-IOP Astronomy, Biophysical Society-IOP Series and IPEM-IOP Series in Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

IOP ebooks allow unlimited concurrent usage and are available on and off campus with an institutional login (formerly known as Raven). The titles are published in full text on the web, PDF, and EPUB formats, and can be downloaded or read online. All published title records are searchable in iDiscover and new records will be added as more 2025 content becomes available.

User may be interested to know that IOPscience has an Accessibility Statement which includes a list of recently implemented accessibility updates as well as being transparent about the parts of the site which are less accessible. The statement also says that users of the site should be able to do the following;

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

Please see below for a selection of titles newly added to the library’s collection. Note: clicking on the hyperlinked titles will take you to the relevant record in iDiscover.

• Viral Diseases: History and new developments in diagnostics and therapeutics
• Handbook of Exact Solutions to the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
• Artificial Intelligence: A tool for effective diagnostics
• Physics of Cancer: Cellular mechanisms to foster or fight cancer
• Polarization and Directional Effects in the Radiation from Plasmas
• Two-dimensional Valleytronic Materials
• Theory of Electromagnetic Pulses
• Emerging Trends in Artificial Intelligence: Integrating theories and practice

Please email the ebooks@cambridge team if you have any feedback on these new collections.

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: 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. 

New resource: Knovel Engineering Data and Technical References to Solve Engineering Problems

We are pleased to announce that over 4,000 Engineering titles are now available through four ebook collections on the Knovel platform, published by Elsevier. The four academic collections are Aerospace Radar Technology, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering & Construction Materials, and Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering. There are direct links to each collection through the new and improved A-Z Databases LibGuide and individual titles are available through the library catalogue, iDiscover.  

Screenshot of the Knovel platform home page, displaying the Material Property Search, Interactive Graphs, Property Table Data, and Equations functionality.

According to the Knovel Quick Start Guide, “Knovel is an engineering decision-support solution enabling engineers to solve problems faster. With powerful search and interactive analytical tools, engineers can confidently find answers to technical questions through best practice insights, validated equations and materials and substances data from more than 160 providers.” The Knovel Technical References provide engineering titles, materials property data, insights and tools from the professional world that can support student’s research and development. 

The collections include titles from popular publishers such as Wiley, De Gruyter, Springer, various university presses and Elsevier. These handbooks, conference proceedings, and other volumes cover aircraft, spacecraft, radar manufacture and operation, chemical processes, product development, structural engineering, hydraulics, and much more. More than 700 companies from a wide range of engineering industries (such as Aerospace and defense, Chemicals, Energy, Engineering design and construction, Equipment manufacturing) subscribe to the content, demonstrating the platform’s practical applications.

Material Property Search for “silver”

In addition to ebooks, Knovel has the following functions: Material Property Search, Interactive Graphs, Property Table Data, and Equations. Material Property Search allows you to search for materials or substances by their common name, CAS Registry number, molecular formula, and more. Interactive Graphs and Property Table Data allow you to interact with and extract data from graphs and tables found on the platform. In a similar manner, the Equations function pulls out vetted and functional equations referenced in the literature and produces an interactive equation. Another integrated feature is the Engineering Newsfeed, featuring the latest in engineering news and announcements, which appears on the lower half of the Homepage screen, next to your latest Search queries and a regularly updated Information panel. 

Users of the Knovel Technical References have the option to create a My Knovel account, which enables you to save and organise content, search queries, tables, equations, and alerts. My Knovel allows you to view all your past searches and activities, including those you might not have saved to make it easier to track your research activity and it enables you to share selected content and searches with other Knovel users.

If you have any questions or issues with access, please contact the ebooks@cambridge team. 

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