Following on from the purchase of the 2020-2022 collection last summer the ebooks team is pleased to announce that the 2023-24 books collection hosted on the CABI Digital Library has now been acquired in perpetuity. Roughly 125 new titles will be included in this purchase, with 80 of those already published online with title records searchable in iDiscover. Further title records will be added to the library catalogue as they are made available.
The titles are all DRM-free and for unlimited concurrent access and they cover topics such as Agriculture, Forestry & Food, Plant Sciences, Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Environmental & Natural Sciences, Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure and more.
This collection will be useful to disciplines within the Biological Sciences, especially for those in Plant Sciences and for those on the Crop Science MPhil course, but they are also of interest more widely across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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.
This newly available collection comprises over 160 Biomedical and Life Sciences reference titles, including encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries and atlases, which provide a great starting resource for any topic-based research. Each reference entry links to its primary and secondary sources, allowing researchers to trace the information trail and further enrich their understanding and knowledge.
Many titles in the collection are also available as living reference works, which are “online first, real-time snapshots (article collections) of a reference work which is in development or is being updated” and provide “the latest and most up-to-date content well in advance of the final printed work.”
The living reference works are fully discoverable and citable with their own unique DOI, and updates undergo a rigorous editorial process before they are accepted for publication on the Springer Nature platform.
Two separate entries for the the reference work Spider Venoms: the static first edition published in 2016, and the updating living edition.
The Biomedical and Life Sciences reference collection is written and curated by internationally renowned and award-winning experts. It will be of interest to many core STEMM disciplines and areas of research, including:
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Toxicology/Toxinology
Cancer Research
Microbiology/Bacteriology
Cell Biology
Bioengineering/Biotechnology
Food Engineering/Food Chemistry
Genetics
Laboratory Medicine/Medical Biology
Virology
Ethnobotany
Plant Physiology and Diseases
Plant Sciences
Animal Sciences
Taxonomic References
Parasitology
Climate Change and the Environment
Biodiversity
Veterinary Sciences
Agriculture
Some of the high impact titles available in this collection include:
The Encyclopedia of Molecular Pharmacology (3rd Edition) is a fully updated version of a classic in the field. It combines the knowledge of classic pharmacology with the more recent approach of the precise analysis of the molecular mechanisms by which drugs exert their effects.
The Encyclopedia of Social Insects is a comprehensive treatise on the social insects of the world and is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI).
TheEncyclopedia of Systems Biology is conceived as a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of systems biology, in particular the investigation of living matter involving a tight coupling of biological experimentation, mathematical modeling and computational analysis and simulation.
Please see below for a sample of some more of the collection’s most popular and frequently cited titles now available to Cambridge University students and researchers. The hyperlinked titles will take you to the relevant reference work on the SpringerLink platform.
Please do get in touch if you have any questions about the Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences reference collection. Email us at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.
We’re delighted to say that Cambridge has acquired permanent access to the CABI Digital Library 2020-22 ebook collections!
CABI (or the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International) is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission (in their own words) “is to improve people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment”.
Their aim is to develop knowledge and solutions for the problems facing us today (climate change, hunger, poverty) and to share knowledge, skills and tools with the people who need it most. You can read more about the organisation on the “About CABI” webpage.
The CABI Digital library was launched in 2022 to house their publications on agriculture, the environment and the applied life sciences. The 2020-22 collections contain 130 DRM-free ebooks covering topics such as Agriculture, Forestry & Food, Plant Sciences, Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Environmental & Natural Sciences, Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure and more.
The collections will be useful to disciplines within the Biological Sciences and the Humanities and Social Sciences; they will be a particular boon to Plant Sciences and the new Crop Science MPhil course starting in 2023-24.
We have given a broad overview of title-by-title ebooks and subscription packages acquired in 2020-21, but we thought it would also be useful to highlight and revisit some of the acquisitions made by individual Schools over the last academic year. To kick us off, this blog post will look at titles acquired by the School of Biological Sciences.
The Anatomy Collection is a particularly useful teaching and learning resource for students of PDN and Medicine, and features key textbooks on Anatomy, Histology, Embryology and Neuroscience, as well as a video library, case studies, and a customisable quizzing tool for exam preparation and self-assessment.
A full list of textbook titles and links is available below. New editions are added when they are published.
Users will need to create a My Health Library personal account via the collection homepage in order to print chapters and to bookmark favourite books, chapters, tables and figures. Please see the blogpost here for further information.
Title-by-title purchases
Here is a small sample of title-by-title ebook purchases in 2020-21 by the School of Biological Sciences. All of these titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.
Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during April and May. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.
Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during March. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.
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.
Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during September. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.
Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during August. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.
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