Collections update and new resource: CABI Digital Library 2025 ebook collection and CABI Cases

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• Collections update: CABI Digital Library 2025 ebook collection
• New resource: CABI Cases

Collections update: CABI Digital Library 2025 ebook collection

Building on previous purchases of both the 2020-2022 and the 2023-2024 collections, we are pleased to announce that thanks to Cambridge University STEMM Libraries the CABI digital library 2025 ebook collection has been purchased in perpetuity. Approximately 80 new titles will be included in this collection, and records will continue to be added to iDiscover as titles are published throughout this year. Available titles can also be searched on the CABI Digital Library.

The new ebooks cover a range of subjects, including agriculture, animal welfare, veterinary and animal sciences, biotechnology, and plant sciences. The collection will be useful for those studying Biological Sciences and particularly Plant Sciences, as well as having wider applicability to the Humanities and Social Sciences. All titles are unlimited access and DRM free.

Please see below for a selection of new titles, with links to their iDiscover records beneath the images.

• Blue-green rehabilitation: urban planning, leisure and tourism in river cities
• Mental health and well-being in animals
• Elephant welfare in global tourism
• Artificial intelligence (AI) in social research
• Soil health and nutrition management
• Dendrobium nobile: research and therapeutic applications
• Genome editing for crop improvement: theory and methodology
• Chalcidoidea of the world

New resource: CABI Cases

We are also pleased to announce that a new resource has been purchased by Cambridge University STEMM Libraries from CABI, called CABI Cases. This is a new product offered by CABI, and access has been purchased for specific year collections across three Cases: ‘CABI Cases: Animal Behaviour and Welfare’ (2022-24); ‘CABI Cases: Animal Science’ (2024); and ‘CABI Cases: Plant Health’ (2023-24). The Cases are composed of case studies covering subjects such as forestry and food, agriculture, veterinary and animal sciences, human health, and much more. In total, we have access to over 110 case studies across the three purchased collections.

As CABI notes, the Cases present “practical, educational case studies” which “support study, research and practice… They are written by leading international practitioners and academics and peer-reviewed to ensure quality.” The case studies will again be of particular interest to disciplines within Biological Sciences and Plant Sciences, and the Humanities and Social Sciences. The collections of Cases noted above have been purchased in perpetuity, and they can be accessed both through iDiscover and the ebooks@cambridge libguide.

Please do get in touch with us at ebooks@cambridge if you have any questions or would like to know more about either the CABI 2025 ebook collection or CABI Cases.

New ebook collection: Springer Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Reference Module (2000-2025)

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Cambridge University Libraries are very pleased to announce that we now have access to the Springer Humanities & Social Sciences Reference Module (2000-2025). Records for all available reference works are now in iDiscover. Cambridge users can also access the collection via the “Springer Humanities & Social Sciences reference collection 2000-2025” entries in the A-Z Databases and on the ebooks@cambridge LibGuide.

This newly available collection comprises around 635 Humanities and Social 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.

Some 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 reference work The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing; the published (completed) first edition published in 2022, and the updating living edition.

The Humanities & Social Sciences Reference Module is written and curated by internationally renowned and award-winning experts. It will be of interest to many HSS disciplines and areas of research, including:

• Archaeology
• Business and Management
• Economics
• Education
• History
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Social Sciences

Some of the most popular works with Cambridge users are listed below (click on the title hyperlinks to lead through to the iDiscover record for each book).

• Encylopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior
• Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science
• Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
• Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development
• Encyclopedia of Austism Spectrum Disorders
• The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing
• Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
• Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management

A selection of recently published titles are shown below;

• Handbook of Disability
• Encyclopedia of Global Justice
• The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Policy and Law
• The Palgrave Handbook of Cybersecurity and Energy Transitions
• The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
• The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies

Please do get in touch with the ebooks team if you have any questions about the Springer Humanities & Social Sciences Reference Module.

Collections update: ACLS Humanities Ebooks Renewal 2025

The ebooks@cambridge team are pleased to announce that we’ve renewed our subscription with ACLS Humanities Ebooks (ACLS HEB) for 2025. This year, over 190 diverse new titles have been added to ACLS HEB’s collection, contributing to their stated mission of providing access to scholarship ‘featuring marginalised voices and overlooked subject areas’. Records for all the new titles are available on iDiscover, and can be browsed on the open-source Fulcrum platform.

The ACLS HEB scholar-curated collection specialises in the inclusion of foundational backlist titles which are otherwise out-of-print or inaccessible in ebook format. Titles focus on subjects across the humanities and social sciences, and are chosen to be the most useful in their respective fields. There are over 6,300 unlimited-user access titles included in the collection, and approximately 180 new titles are added each year. To access the full list of new titles for 2025, please click on this link.

Here is a selection of recently added titles which showcase the range of ebooks available. A list of the selected titles, as well as hyperlinks to their contents on the Fulcrum platform, can be found below the images.

• Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon
• Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging
• Ball Don’t Lie!: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball
• Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema
• Reading the Fire: The Traditional Indian Literatures of America
• Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia
• Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens
• Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America

Please note, if you’re accessing the titles off-campus, you will need to click the ‘log in’ button which pops up next to the statement ‘please try to log in with your institution’. Next, select University of Cambridge as your institution, then enter your Raven username and password.

If you have any questions or would like to know more about the collection please do get in touch with the ebooks@cambridge team.

Open Access monographs: MIT Press Direct To Open 2025

The University of Cambridge continues to support MIT Press’s Direct To Open (D2O) for 2025. Cambridge University Libraries originally signed up for the scheme in 2022 and this was renewed for a further 12 months at the end of 2024. Our support, along with over 300 other participating libraries is enabling MIT to publish all 80 books earmarked for this model as Open Access over the coming year.

The 2025 titles will begin publishing in February and a title list of all D2O published books including the Spring/Summer 2025 is now available.

As a participating institution we continue to have access to @ 2,300 ebooks from the MIT Press backlist for the period of the subscription in titles ranging across all disciplines. Records for the backlist collection as well as for all the Open Access titles can be searched for in iDiscover. Newly published title records are added regularly.

The publisher states; “Launched in 2021, D2O is an innovative sustainable framework for open access monographs that shifts publishing from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. D2O’s particular advantage is that it enables [MIT] to provide open access to its entire list of scholarly books at scale, embargo-free, during each funding cycle….all MIT Press monograph authors have the opportunity for their work to be published open access with equal support to traditionally underserved and underfunded disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.”

Key statistics

• 321 – number of open access books funded through D2O to date
• 659,453 – total # of times published D2O books have been read on the MIT Press platform
• 12.74% / 54.78% / 32.48% – % of humanities/social sciences/STEM in D2O

Recently published D2O titles include;

• Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
• Macroeconomic Modeling: The Cowles Commission Approach
• Playframes: How Do We Know We Are Playing?
• Toy Theory: Technology and Imagination in Play
• Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie
• Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation
• The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
• The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832
• A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future

You can click on this link to browse all the D2O published titles on the MIT ebooks platform.

Please do get in touch with the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Collections update: CABI Digital Library – 2023-2024 ebook collections

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.

Please also see below for a sample of titles from the 2023-24 CABI ebook collection. Please click here to jump straight to a sample list of CABI ebooks.

Sample list of 23-24 CABI ebooks

Please note that the titles below link directly to the corresponding ebooks in the CABI Digital Library.

• Sustainable Events Management
• Emerging Voices for Animals in Tourism
• Parasitoid Wasps of South East Asia
• Students’ Dictionary of Zoo and Aquarium Studies
• Invasive Species and Global Climate Change, 2nd Edition
• Managing Microorganisms
• Infection Control in Small Animal Clinical Practice
• The Politics of Religious Tourism
• Breed Differences in Dog Behavior: Why Tails Wag Differently

Please do get in touch with the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions about CABI Digital Library.

Collections Highlight: Translated Texts for Historians E-Library

University of Cambridge users have access to over 90 texts from the early historical period, available through the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians E-Library collection.

The Translated Texts for Historians ebook collection contains translated texts of the late antiquity and early medieval period, translated by leading scholars. According to Liverpool University Press, the collection “makes available historical sources from A.D. 300–800 translated into English, in many cases for the first time.” Books included in the collection have been translated from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Mandaic, and many other languages. The lives of saints, popes, bishops, kings and other important figures in early Christianity are featured. Titles from the collection should be of use to those studying the Classics, Divinity, History, and other related subjects. 

The entire collection of translated monographs can be found directly on the Liverpool University Press website, through the ebooks LibGuide, or via subject searches on iDiscover. More content will be added to the collection each year until 2028 in the first instance, covering ebook volumes published through Liverpool University Press until July 31st, 2026. Please note that there is an 18 month publisher-imposed embargo on the access to newly published content.

Some of the most popular titles include: 

• The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire
• Jordanes: Romana and Getica
• Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Martyrs
• The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon
• Chronicon Paschale 284-628
• Orosius: Seven Books of History against the Pagans

For any questions or if you encounter any access or linking problems, please contact the ebooks@cambridge team. 

New ebook collection: CABI Digital Library (2020-22 ebook collections)

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.

The records are now available in iDiscover. Please also see below for a sample of titles from the CABI ebook collection. Please click here to jump straight to a sample list of CABI ebooks.

Sample list of CABI ebooks

Please note that the titles below link directly to the corresponding ebooks in the CABI Digital Library.

• Applied crop physiology: understanding the fundamentals of grain crop management
• A tale of a man, a worm and a snail: the schistosomiasis control initiative
• Feline Reproduction
• Festival and Event Tourism: Building Resilience and Promoting Sustainability
• Food Industry 4.0: Unlocking Advancement Opportunities in the Food Manufacturing Sector
• Gene flow: monitoring, modeling and mitigation
• Plant Omics: Advances in Big Data Biology
• Presenting science concisely
• Transforming tertiary agricultural education in Africa

Please do get in touch with the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions about CABI Digital Library.

Lived Places Publishing – permanent access to 2023 ebook collection

Following a successful trial in the summer, we are very pleased to announce that Cambridge users now have permanent access to the Lived Places Publishing 2023 ebook Collection on the Lived Places Publishing ebook platform.

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) is an independent publisher of works in the Humanities and Social Sciences. A note on the LLP website explains the nature and purpose of their collections:

Lived Places publishes course readings that focus on lived experiences in the context of place. We provide an ever-growing list of interdisciplinary and subject-based collections in topics across academic curriculum – such as Black Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies, and Queer and LGBT+ Studies. Our hope is our books will help educators introduce a topic and engage students through stories, multiple voices, and the experiences of people around the world.

The LPP landing page shows recently published or featured titles. To see a wider selection, users can search by keyword using the search bar at the top of the screen or they can filter by Subject, Collection or Author.

Click the Filter button (orange circle) below the search bar to view filtering options.

Available to Cambridge users are titles in the following subject collections: Forced Migration Studies, Education Studies, Latinx Studies, Black Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Carceral Studies, Queer and LGBT+ Studies and Asian Studies.

The records are available in iDiscover, with more to be added throughout the rest of the year as new titles are published. Please see below for a list of recently added titles:

• Multiracial Experience: One Man’s Search for Race, Identity, and Family
• Creative Resistance: The Social Justice Practices of Monirah, Halleh, and Diala
• Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand: One Foot Out of the Closet
• (Re)constructing Memory, Place, and Identity in Twentieth Century Houston: A Memoir on Family and Being Mexican American in Space City USA
• Tse Tsan Tai (1872–1938): An Australian-Cantonese Opinion Maker in British Hong Kong

Please contact the ebooks team if you have any questions about the Lived Places ebook collection. Contact us at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Trial access to Lived Places Publishing ebook collection until July 31st 2023

Update [dated 4th September 2023]. Following feedback during the trial period the Lived Places 2023 ebooks collection has been purchased in perpetuity. Blog post with further details to follow later in September 2023.

We are delighted to announce that Cambridge users now have trial access to the Lived Places Publishing ebook collection until July 31st 2023.

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) is an independent publisher of works in the Humanities and Social Sciences. LPP note in their mission statement that “[their] enterprise is committed to delivering curriculum-ready content that allows students to engage with global author voices exploring the intersection of social identity and place or context.”

Available to Cambridge users are titles in the following subject collections: Forced Migration Studies, Education Studies, Latinx Studies, Black Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Carceral Studies, Queer and LGBT+ Studies and Asian Studies.

Please see below for a sample of titles available:

• Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina
• Students, Teachers, Families, and a Socially Just Education: Rewriting the Grammar of Schooling to Unsettle Identities
• From Sleepless in Seattle to I Seoul You: Korean Gay Men and Cross-cultural Encounters in Transnational Times
• Life Lived Well as a Non-binary and Autistic Mental Health Advocate: Finding a Place of Hope
• Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability: Knowing What is Going On

Notes on using the ebook collection

Cambridge users can access the ebook collection using the Lived Places collection link, which can be found on the A-Z Databases and via the ebook platform list on the ebooks@cambridge LibGuide.

You may see a login page after clicking the link. This login page can be circumvented without creating an account by clicking “Lived Places Publishing” in the top left corner of the screen.

The LPP landing page shows recently published or featured titles. To see a wider selection, users can search by keyword using the search bar at the top of the screen or they can filter by Subject, Collection or Author.

Click the Filter button (orange circle) below the search bar to view filtering options.

Please also note that currently available titles will display “Read” and “Download” icons.

Forthcoming titles will either show a padlock or they will simply be listed without the Read and Download icons. The Lived Places website will soon be updated to make it clearer that these titles are forthcoming and are not yet available.

We are keen to hear your thoughts on this trial ebook collection! Please send feedback or questions to the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk

Suz Edgar

New: Intelex Past Masters, Works of Foucault

The ebooks team is happy to let you know that Cambridge users now have access to a new module on Intelex Past Masters. Cambridge users already had access to a growing collection of authors on the platform, including works by John Dewey, Martin Luther, George Eliot, Hegel and more.

Access now includes Les Œuvres de Michel Foucault

Les Oeuvres consists of Foucault’s works in the original French published by Éditions Gallimard between 1963 and 1984. Students and researchers can view Foucault’s nine major works, including Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison) and his multi-volume work Histoire de la sexualité (The History of Sexuality).

A record for these collected works is now in iDiscover. Please do contact us at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions.