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)
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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.