New ebook collection: Taylor & Francis Asian Studies – Curated collection

The ebooks team are pleased to announce that Cambridge University students and researchers now have access to the Taylor & Francis “Asian Studies – Curated” ebook collection hosted on the Taylor & Francis ebook platform.

The collection includes over 140 research publications spanning disciplines across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and focusing on East, South and Southeast Asia.

The collection includes titles from the following Routledge series: Politics in Asia, Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia, Routledge Studies on China in Transition, Asia’s Transformations, Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies, Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies and Rethinking Southeast Asia.

All ebooks in the collection are DRM-free. The records are now available in iDiscover.

You can find the full selection of available titles on the Taylor & Francis Asian Studies collection page.

Please click here to jump to the sample list of titles.

A sample of titles from the Asian Studies collection

• Activism and Agency in India: Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations
• Chinese Theatre Troupes in Southeast Asia: Touring Diaspora, 1900s—1970s
• Death and Dying in India: Ageing and End-of-Life Care of the Elderly
• Fall-out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection After the Triple Meltdown
• Jakarta: Claiming Spaces and Rights in the City
• Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence
• Midwifery in China (中国助产)
• Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora: Everyday Anti-racism in Australia
• Renewable Energy in East Asia: Towards a new developmentalism
• Secularism, Decolonisation, and the Cold War in South and Southeast Asia
• Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Architecture and Beyond
• Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change
• The Beatles in Japan
• The King and the Making of Modern Thailand
• The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Sustaining Decentralized Protest
• Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto / Sakhalin

New Bloomsbury 2022 Collections

The ebooks team is pleased to announce the acquisition of six Bloomsbury 2022 ebook collections.

The first five of these collections were purchased from the Connell fund, with additional funding from the MMLL Library and ebooks@cambridge for the Film & Media Studies collection. Titles in these collections will be of interest to students and researchers from a wide range of subject areas across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

You can browse the collections on the Bloomsbury website using the authenticated links below:

• Africa, Asia and Latin American Studies 2022 (16 total titles; 4 published so far).
• Art & Visual Culture 2022 (18 total titles; 7 published so far).
• Film & Media Studies 2022 (81 total titles; 18 published so far).
• Politics & International Relations 2022 (53 total titles; 10 published so far).
• Religious Studies 2022 (40 total titles; 12 published so far).

Additionally, the Squire Law Library has purchased Hart Publishing 2022. Cambridge users now have access to the Hart Publishing 2014-22 annual collections.

• Hart Publishing 2022 (151 total titles; 25 published so far).

MARC records for all published titles in these collections are now available in iDiscover; additional records will be loaded into the catalogue as the remaining titles are added to the Bloomsbury Collections platform throughout the year.

Please see below for a small selection of currently available titles from each collection:

Africa, Asia and Latin American Studies 2022

• War, Women, and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone
• Urban Inequality: Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg
• Operation Car Wash: Brazil’s Institutionalized Crime, and The Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History
• Power and Informality in Urban Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives

Art & Visual Culture 2022

• Material Modernity: Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic
• Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties
• Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France
• The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America
• Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design, 1850–1920
• Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square

Film & Media Studies 2022

• Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze: Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought
• Radio’s Legacy in Popular Culture: The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades
• The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinemades
• Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals
• SceneWriting: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters
• City Limits: Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled Times

Politics & International Relations 2022

• Global Health Watch 6: In The Shadow Of The Pandemic
• Georgia’s Foreign Policy in The 21st Century: Challenges for a Small State
• Uncontrollable Women:Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries
• Indigenous Women’s Voices: 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies
• A Vanishing West in the Middle East: The Recent History of U.S.-Europe Cooperation in the Region
• Rethinking Labour’s Past

Religious Studies 2022

• Religious Diversity in Europe: Mediating the Past to the Young
• Buddhism and Waste: The Excess, Discard, and Afterlife of Buddhist Consumption
• Jehovah’s Witnesses: A New Introduction
• African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems: Sacred Words and Holy Realms
• Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age
• Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Hart Publishing 2022

• The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Union: The Impact on Law and Governance
• The Future of Unions and Worker Representation: The Digital Picket Line
• The Criminal Law’s Person
• Three Liability Regimes for Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Actants, Hybrids, Crowds
• Taking Law Seriously: Essays in Honour of Peter Cane
• From Cosmopolitanism to Human Rights

Please contact the ebooks@cambridge team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions about these collections.

Ebooks in 2020-21

As we complete the first full academic year since the pandemic began, we thought that it would be a nice idea to look back at our year (and a bit) in ebooks. The first lockdown in March 2020 saw a huge surge in demand for electronic resources, with a staggering 2230 new title-by-title ebooks purchased by the central ebooks team for teaching and research between March 16th and the close of the financial year at the end of July! (In comparison, 519 new ebooks were purchased during the same period in the previous year.) Thousands of ebooks were also made temporarily available via trial subscriptions.

The 2020-21 academic year has been another exceptional year in terms of expanding ebook access, and the remainder of this blog post will provide a brief overview of the title-by-title ebooks, new ebook platforms, and ebook subcriptions/packages acquired over the past 12 months.

Before going any further, it is worth noting that the past 16 months have involved a huge collaborative effort between the ebooks team, the faculty and departmental libraries, research teams at the UL, and college libraries. There has also been tremendous support provided by colleagues at the UL: the Electronic Collection Management team, Materials Processing, Digital Services, and our fellow Collections and Academic Liaison-ers, who have checked seemingly endless lists of ebooks, have helped with loading records and ebook portfolios, and with purchasing. Such extensive ebooks provision would also not have been possible without additional funds generously released by the Colleges, the University, and the University Library. Thank you to all!

Title-by-title ebook purchases

Between August 2020 and July 2021, 5809 new title-by-title ebooks were purchased by the central ebooks team, by faculty and departmental libraries, and by research collections teams at the UL.

This includes:

• 2676 new ebook titles purchased by the central ebooks team for teaching and learning, with thanks to recommendations from faculty and departmental libraries, college libraries, and Cambridge University students and staff.
• 1892 new ebooks purchased by faculty and departmental libraries (Biological Sciences (research), Business & Management, Classics, Education, English, HPS, Medicine, MMLL, Music, Philosophy and Psychology).
• 1241 new ebooks purchased by research collections teams at the UL.
• 2251 new titles purchased for subjects in the Arts & Humanities.
• 2485 new titles purchased for subjects in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
• 701 new titles purchased for STEMM subjects.
• 57 new French language titles from Amalivre, which you can read more about here.
• 82 new Japanese language titles from KinoDen (Kinokuniya Digital Library).
• 26 new Japanese language titles from Maruzen eBook Library (MeL).
• 30 ebooks of statistics and analysis about the 2001 Ukrainian census from East View (29 in Ukrainian). You can read more about these resources here.
• Cambridge’s first Russian language ebook was also purchased from East View. More information here.
• 2 new Korean language titles from ebook platform BookRail.

Below is a small sample of some of the new title-by-title ebooks acquired 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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• Sezgin Online: volumes 1-9 of Fuat Sezgin’s renowned Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition, particularly for the history of science and technology in the Islamic world.
• Chaucer’s language (2nd edition)
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• Psychopharmacology (2nd edition)
• The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online (partly funded by the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies library)
• The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy
• The Bloomsbury handbook of religion and nature
• The Handbook of Regional Science (2nd extended edition)
• The Oxford companion to the book
• Theories of Race and Racism: a Reader
• Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology

Ebook collections

All titles from the below collections/subscriptions (except Perlego) can be found in iDiscover.

Research (new)

• Access to nearly 10,000 Russian ebooks through a subscription to BiblioRossica’s Leading Russian Scholarly Presses package. Please see this blogpost for more information.
• Brill Online Collections: Schöningh and Fink History: Early Modern and Modern History (2020 collection & 2021 collection).
• Brill Online Collections: Schöningh and Fink Literature and Culture Studies (2020 collection & 2021 collection).
• Permanent access to the Brill Online Miras Maktoob ebook collection, which you can read more about here.

Arts & Humanities

• Permanent access to the Knowledge Unlatched Routledge African Studies Collection (partly funded by UL research budgets).
• Annual subscription to the Art & Architecture ePortal (A&AePortal) (funded in 2020-21 by the Art History and Architecture library). More details about the platform can be found here.
• The Manchester Film Studies 2021 collection (funded by the MMLL Library)
• The Manchester Shakespeare 2021 collection
• Bloomsbury Film and Media Studies 2021 (paid from the Connell fund)

Humanities & Social Sciences

• Manchester Studies in Imperialism (Connell fund)
• Bloomsbury Education Around the World (Connell fund)
• Zed Books Sexuality and Gender Studies Archive (Connell fund)
• Zed Books Sex (Sexuality) and Gender Studies 2017-2020 (Connell fund)
• Annual subscription to Law Trove (partly funded by the Squire Library)
• The International Commercial Law (ICML) ebook module on the Oxford Legal Research Library (OLRL) platform (funded by the Squire Library). This new module complements the other two collections registered Cambridge users have access to on the OLRL platform; Financial and Banking Law and Private International Law. More information can be found here.
• Permanent access to the three John Dewey components on Intelex Past Masters (partly funded by the Whipple Library and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science). Please see this blogpost for more information.
• Taylor & Francis HSS and STEM deep backlist collections

STEMM

• Subscription to ClinicalKey. Please see the blogpost here for more information.
• Subscription to Ovid LWW Health Library – International Anatomy Collection. Please see the blogpost here.
• Subscription to Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine Online (partly funded by the Medical Library)
• A year subscription to ScienceDirect Mathematical Sciences Collection and ScienceDirect All Access. Please see this blog post for more information.
• Permanent access to 350 Morgan & Claypool ebooks in Engineering and Computer Science. Read more here.
• A subscription to O’Reilly for Higher Education, with titles in the Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences/STEMM but with a particular strength in technology.
• Institute of Physics (IOP): EBA for the Concise and Expanding Physics series (releases 4-6) and their 2020 ebook collection. Cambridge also has perpetual access to the Concise and Expanding Physics series (releases 1-3) and AAS-IOP Astronomy (releases 1-2).
• Springer Maths and Statistics EBA 2018-21.

General

• 1000 Perlego accounts until the end of September 2021, which have largely been used for research and for some smaller teaching cohorts. Please see here for more information.
• ProQuest Academic Complete
• EBSCO Academic Collection
• Selected core eTextbooks in 2020-21 from BilbiU, Kortext and Askews & Holts for teaching and learning.

ScienceDirect: All Access & Freedom Collection ebooks

The ebooks team are really pleased to announce that a 12 month subscription has been taken to a collection of around 40,000 scholarly and academic ebook titles, hosted on the ScienceDirect platform. The collection includes textbooks, book series, monographs and major reference works, covering all available subject areas and publication years. As new titles are published online they will be automatically added to the collection. All titles are searchable in iDiscover and they are DRM-free.

Subjects covered on ScienceDirect include;

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Engineering; Physics and Astronomy; Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Mathematics; Medicine and Dentistry; Materials Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Chemistry; Neuroscience; Psychology, Business, Management and Accounting; and Social Sciences.

At the end of the 12 month subscription period we will be able to retain access to a selection of the most popular ebook titles. The title selection process will be overseen by the ebooks@cambridge team and will involve reviewing usage data and consulting with faculty, departmental and college librarians.

Here is the Raven-authenticated link for anyone who would like to explore ebook content directly on the platform: https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.sciencedirect.com

Please let the team know by emailing ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any queries about ebook content on ScienceDirect.

Nearly 30,000 ScienceDirect ebooks : access until the 31st July 2020

University of Cambridge registered students and staff have temporary access to ebook titles included in the following collections on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform; “All Access”, “Freedom Collection 2020” and “Freedom Collection Backlist” ebooks, until the 31st of July 2020.

The books are available from the following link:

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.sciencedirect.com

Please let us know what you think about these collections by sending your feedback via the online form.

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There are nearly 30,000 ebook titles available, spanning a wide range of subjects included in the following ScienceDirect “domains”;

Physical Sciences and Engineering

Life Sciences

Health Sciences

Social Sciences and Humanities

A selection of available titles are shown below.

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Project MUSE – opens up temporary access to scholarly content

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://muse.jhu.edu

Project MUSE is supporting participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on their platform. Their aim is to make it easier to access vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, to help support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide. Most of the free access will last until the 30th June, but different publishers have applied different end dates, so please consult the list from the link below for the most current information.

The free content spans both books and journal titles from currently around 80 publishers. A list of these participating publishers is available from the following link:

https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/

The book titles are searchable in iDiscover from today, but for journal articles please search on Project MUSE directly.

Major participating publishers include:

African Books Collective (all books until 30th June)

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaisaance Studies (all journals until 30th June)

Cornell University Press (all books until 30th June)

Johns Hopkins University Press (all books & journals until 31 May)

MIT Press (all books until 30th June)

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (all journals until 30th June)

Princeton University Press (selected books until 30th June)

Russell Sage Foundation (all books until 30th June)

University of Illinois Press (selected journals until 30th June)

University of Missouri Press (all books until 30th June)

University of Ottawa Press (all books until 30th June)

University of Virginia Press (all books & journals until 30th June)

Utah State University Press (all books until 30th June)

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  A selection of titles from Utah State University Press, The MIT Press, and African Books Collective

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Enhanced access to Peter Lang monographs

The ebooks@cambridge Service and the University Library is pleased to announce that free, perpetual, full-text access is now available to a defined collection of over 1,350 Peter Lang research monographs. These titles were published since 2010 and have been purchased in print by the University Library. Along with their Open Access monographs the total of accessible ebook titles on the Peter Lang platform numbers just over 2,200.

Peter Lang publishes research monographs predominantly in German and English and some other European languages across all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences including;

• Art
• Economics and Management
• Education
• English Language and Literature
• Film and Performance Studies
• German Language and Literature
• History
• International Law
• Linguistics
• Media and Communication
• Music
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Romance Languages and Literature
• Sociology
• Theology

Univesity of Cambridge registered users have access to all titles dispaying a green unlocked padlock and also to those displaying a yellow unlocked padlock icon (the Open Access titles) .

You can access the full text in html or PDF format for reading online or by downloading chapter PDFs. Please click on ‘Expand All’ under the Table of Contents section at the foot of each book page to open up the chapter access. All accessible titles are searchable in iDiscover and are available with unlimited concurrency both on and off campus (via a Raven login for non open access titles).

There is a publisher-supplied user guide with information on searching, browsing, and citing references which you can access from here.

          

           

Please contact the ebooks team on ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions or feedback.

Brill Humanities, Social Sciences 2017, & International Law monographs 2014-2017

The University Library is pleased to announce that access has been purchased in perpetuity to the following 2017 HSS subject collections…

                         

                        

                                            

Asian Studies

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity

Classical Studies

European History and Culture I

European History and Culture II

Language and Linguistics

Literature and Cultural Studies

Middle East and Islamic Studies

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy

Social Sciences

The 2017 collections complement Brill’s HSS 2014, 2015, and 2016 collections, already available to our users on Brill Online and searchable in iDiscover.

The Squire Law Library is also pleased to announce that access has been purchased in perpetuity to the International Law ebook collections, 2014-2017 inclusive.These titles can be also found in iDiscover and currently number 202.

                         

Brill ebooks are available with unlimited concurrency and can be accessed both on and off campus (with a Raven login). You can download  or print chapters from the ebooks in PDF format, or read them online. As new 2017 titles are published, they will be added to the Brill ebooks platform and loaded into iDiscover on a monthly basis.

Please contact the ebooks@cambridge team on ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk with any feedback on Brill ebooks, or if you want to recommend any unowned titles for purchase.

Henry Sidgwick: complete works and selected correspondance

We are pleased to announce that ebooks@cambridge and the Casimir Lewy (Philosophy) Library have purchased access to The complete works and selected correspondance of Henry Sidgwick through the Intelex Past Masters platform.

The online collection contains the complete published works of Henry Sidgwick, including both the First and Seventh editions of The Methods of Ethics. Also included is a substantial body of correspondence, much of it previously unpublished, including the matched correspondence between Sidgwick and Henry Graham Dakyns, available in this collection for the first time in its entirety.

On and off-campus access to this collection is available here. Records for individual items in the collection will be available in LibrarySearch very soon.

Bloomsbury ebooks – purchased collections

Following a recent trial of the Bloomsbury Collections online platform, the ebooks@cambridge Service is pleased to announce that with thanks to the Connell Fund, Cambridge staff and students now have access to 11 ebook collections containing over 400 titles.

Bloomsbury Collections hosts scholarly books from their Academic division, spanning the humanities and social sciences. The benefits of using ebooks on this platform include:

• Instant access to 100s of key works, easily navigable by research topic
• Cite, share and personalize content
• Search full text of titles; filter by date, series or subject
• Browse by subject
• Find the most relevant book chapters quickly and intuitively
• Hyperlinks: find works in the same subject or by the same author; link between text and endnotes or bibliography
• Download and print chapter PDFs without DRM restriction
• Use on your tablet or smartphone

The immediately available collections are:

Ancient History Archive 1983-2012
Ancient Philosophy Archive 1984-2012
Anthropology 2014
Anthropology 2015
Classical Literature Archive 1994-2012
Film & Media Studies 2014
Film & Media Studies 2015
History 2015
Literary Studies 2015

Anthropology 2016 and Theology 2016 collections are now live on the site, and will be searchable in Librarysearch very soon.

All of these activated titles (except for Anthropology 2016 & Theology 2016 – coming soon!) are searchable in LibrarySearch, and registered users can access these ebooks both on and off campus, with a Raven login.

Accessible titles are indicated with the unlocked padlock icon as shown.

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Please contact the ebooks team on ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions or comments.