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.
University of Cambridge registered students and staff now have temporary access to the Al Manhal eLibrary until the 31st of July 2020.
Please let us know what you think about this collection by sending your feedback via the online form.
Al Manhal offers over 15,000 of ebooks from the Arab world’s leading publishers, across a diverse range of topics, with more being added every week.
Al Manhal ebook collections are available in the following subject areas: • Law • Educational Science • History, Geography & Biography • Social Sciences • Business & Economics • Language & Literature • Islamic Studies • Political Science & International Relations • Media and Communication • Art • Art and Architecture • Contemporary References • Classical Literature • Science and Technology • Heritage
Key features
• Full-text searchable publications
• Languages: Arabic, English, French
• Personal bookshelves that can be accessed offline through the App (IOS & Android)
• Highlighting, bookmarking, annotating and text-to-speech
• Copy/paste and printing with automatic citations
• ebook content matches original print 100%
Journals Collection
Al-Manhal Journals collections include an exclusive selection of over 450 peer-reviewed Journals with over 81,514 articles in English and Arabic languages published in the Arab world in the following subject collections: • Educational Science • Psychology & Philosophy • History, Geography & Biography • Social Sciences • Business & Economics • Language & Literature • Islamic Studies • Islamic Banking & Finance • Political Science & International Relations • Law • Science & Technical • Medical • Media and Communication • Art and Architecture
Provides over 9,000 of full-text searchable dissertations from the most prominent academic foundations across the Middle East. This collection is comprised of scholarly work from master’s and Doctoral graduates from all departments of academia and across the full spectrum of research foci.
Reports: Middle East Strategic Studies Online (MESSO)
Middle East Strategic Studies Online (MESSO) is the most comprehensive source for research, intelligence and analysis in Middle East affairs. The database includes a wide range of publications from 2007 onward that includes working papers, research reports, essays, policy briefs, newspaper articles, case studies and conference proceedings from the leading think tanks and research institutes across the Middle East. MESSO is a vital tool for any practitioner or researcher of Middle Eastern affairs. It focuses on political, economic, social and security issues across the region. The growing list of over 10,000 publications provides coverage of: • Arab-Israeli affairs • Elections and changes of government across the region • Social issues such as education, healthcare, immigration, refugees and asylum • Wars, treatises, and diplomacy • Military, defense and security • Terrorism and issues of internal security • Legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements
Reading books offline using the App
Make sure you have a personal account on Al-Manhal and you are signed in.
• Add your favorite titles to your bookshelf using the side-bar tool called ‘Add to Bookshelf’.
• Download the Al Manhal App on your device from Apple Appstore or Google Play Store.
• From within the app choose ‘Sync with Platform’ option from the side navigation menu.
• Sign in using your Platform credentials, then the Sync will automatically begin!
• All books currently present on your Platform Bookshelf will be listed on the App for you to download any of them.
An online user manual is available from the following link:
Kortext, a UK based eTextbook provider, have joined with Jisc, the UK’s not for profit education and research services provider, to launch the Free Student eTextbook Programme (FSTP). Cambridge University Libraries have registered with this scheme, and your library staff are busy liaising with Kortext to develop a growing and bespoke collection of textbooks which University of Cambridge registered students and staff can access online until the 31st of July 2020.
Textbook titles published by key academic publishers including Pearson, Cengage, Taylor & Francis, John Wiley & Sons, Macmillan Education, SAGE Publishing, McGraw Hill Education, Oxford University Press, Elsevier and many others will be included in this collection. The titles are available for unlimited concurrent use and there are no restrictions on how many titles you can consult and keep on your Kortext bookshelf.
At the moment the available bespoke collection is relatively small, but it will soon increase in size and scope, to include titles from prestigious academic series such as Oxford World’s Classics, Blackstone’s Statutes, and many many more of Cambridge’s most popular reading list titles.
To access all of the available titles, please click on the link below which will take you to an alphabetically arranged title list;
If you find a book you are interested in, click once on the appropriate hyperlink and then click on the link that appears above the link box. If it’s your first time logging in to Kortext this will take you to the page shown below, where you will need to type Cambridge in the box asking for the name of your organisation. You will then have the option to select University of Cambridge.
You will be taken via your Raven login to the following form where you can create a personal account on Kortext. If you already have a Kortext account then you can opt to sign in rather than register a new account. Please ensure you use your @cam email address to create your account.
After you’ve signed up you will be able to access the full text of the book. Once inside a book, you can search for key terms, add highlights and bookmarks, print a number of pages, create personal notes and insert links to other content as well as collaborating with your peers. Once you you have consulted a title, it will remain on your own personalised bookshelf until the 30th June 2020.
A small selection of textbook titles from those which are available now are displayed below. More titles will be added on a regular basis so please keep revisiting the title list to check for updates in your subject. Unfortunately it won’t be possible to make available title records searchable in iDiscover.
VitalSource is an education technology solutions provider committed to helping education partners create, deliver, and distribute affordable, accessible, and impactful learning experiences worldwide. To assist students during the COVID-19 lockdown the publishers listed below are offering free access to ebooks across all subjects, on the VitalSource platform until the 30th of June 2020. It’s important to note that there is a limit of 7 ebook title downloads per user, so choose your titles carefully.
American Psychological Association
McGraw Hill
Bloomsbury Academic
Kogan Page
Bristol University Press
Pearson
Cengage
Springer Nature
Edward Elgar
Taylor and Francis
Elsevier
Wiley
Macmillan International Higher Ed.
WW Norton
Publishers offering temporary free ebook access
To sign up for an account on VitalSource Helps, click on the link below and register for an account, using your university @cam email address.
You will need to verify your email address by clicking the “confirm your email” link in the automatic email that VitalSource will send you. Once you are logged in you can “Explore”; search for book titles in the search bar, browse which titles are most popular or have been most recently added to the platform. The platform will present “top picks” based on your previous title searches.
Once you have selected a title you are interested to read, click on the cover to “borrow” it until the 30th June. The title is then added to your library for you to read online. There are various functionalities included in the online reader to help you navigate the content, search within the books, make notes or highlights, print, share, cite, a read aloud feature, and the ability to create flashcards to help with revision.
General guidance and answers to frequently asked questions on using books on VitalSource can be found from this link.
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