Collections update: Springer STEMM EBAs 2024-25 & Springer Synthesis 2024

Renewal: Biomedical & Life Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics & Statistics EBAs

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We are pleased to announce that we have renewed our three popular Springer ebook EBA subscriptions (Biomedical & Life Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics & Statistics) for another year. This “rolling” subscription model covers the four most recent years (2021-24, over 8,600 titles), so that Cambridge users will always have access to the most up-to-date research, conference publications and teaching works in these collections, including new content as it’s published through the rest of 2024. All available title records are searchable in iDiscover.

These subscriptions are also Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) schemes, which means that Cambridge STEMM Librarians use the full annual subscription fees to purchase perpetual access to the most popular and useful titles from the subscriptions. Subject Librarians selected 155 titles from our previous years subscription and these are now permanently owned outright. Please see below for examples of recently purchased ebooks across the three subject areas. The titles are hyperlinked and will take you to the relevant book on the SpringerLink platform.

• Lectin in Host Defense Against Microbial Infections
• The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
• The Art of Theoretical Biology
• Environment, Climate, Plant and Vegetation Growth
• New World Tarantulas
• Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
• Engineering Assets and Public Infrastructures in the Age of Digitalization
• Future Trends in Biomedical and Health Informatics and Cybersecurity in Medical Devices
• Advances in Ergonomics in Design
• Wood & Fire Safety: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Wood & Fire Safety 2020
• Algebraic Geometry I: Schemes
• Explorations in Complex Functions
• Geometric Analysis: In Honor of Gang Tian’s 60th Birthday
• Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fundamentals, Research and Applications
• Galois Cohomology and Class Field Theory

Purchase: Springer Synthesis Collection of Technology 2024

The Synthesis 2024 collection has been purchased in perpetuity; this adds to the previously purchased annual collections and coverage now spans publication years 2005-2024.

To quote from the publishers’ website;

“The Synthesis Collection of Technology provides coverage of leading edge topics across the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Books in this collection are based on techniques, reviews and course notes and defined as “lectures”. These are short, focused books, consisting of around 75-150 pages, bridging the gap between a journal article and an average book. These books tend to have rapid development cycles, publishing research on hot topics as soon as these emerge. Besides emerging topics, Synthesis books also contain principles, fundamentals, methods, models and applications containing practical, accessible information on recent innovations in fast-moving research areas.”

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All records are available in iDiscover. Please see below for a sample list of titles from the 2024 collection (there are approximately 115 new titles being added). The links will take you directly to the relevant ebook on SpringerLink:

• The Traveling Salesman Problem
• The Future of Long Covid: A Threatcasting Approach
• AI Chatbots: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Artificial Intelligence in Vision-Based Structural Health Monitoring
• The Role of Fuels in Transforming Energy End-Use in Buildings and Industrial Processes
• Lifelong and Continual Learning Dialogue Systems
• Scaling Up: How Data Curation Can Help Address Key Issues in Qualitative Data Reuse and Big Social Research
• Quality and Lean Six Sigma for Engineering Technicians

As ever, please do get in touch with the ebooks team if you have any questions about any Springer ebook content. Or, indeed, anything at all related to ebooks! We’re always very happy to help. Write to: ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk 

New ebook collection: Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences Reference collection (2001-2024)

We are delighted to announce that Cambridge University now has access to the highly in-demand Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences Reference module (2001-2024), complementing our existing access to selected annual Springer Biomedical and Life Science ebook collections. Records for all available reference works are now in iDiscover. Cambridge users can also access the collection via the “Springer Biomedical & Life Sciences reference collection 2001-2024” entry in the A-Z Databases.

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)

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

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).

Encyclopedia of Systems Biology

The Encyclopedia 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.

• Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
• Encyclopedia of Biophysics
• Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience (2nd edition)
• Evolutionary Developmental Biology
• Neuroscience in the 21st Century
• Handbook of Cancer and Immunology (living edition – the projected publication date of the completed/static first edition is 2025)
• Encyclopedic Reference of Genomics and Proteomics in Molecular Medicine
• Handbook of Paleoanthropology
• The Prokaryotes: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea

Browse the rest of the collection via the Springer Biomedical & Life Sciences reference collection entry in the A-Z Databases.

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.

Springer Link ebooks: hints, tips and known issues

The ebooks team has recently received queries about ebooks on Springer Link, so we have created a blog post with details about known issues and some advice.

We will update this blog post to reflect any changes or new information. This blog post will also be linked in the Springer entry under Platform Hints and Tips on the ebooks@Cambridge LibGuide.

You can click on the section headings below to jump to a specific section of the blog post:

• Availability of ebook titles on Springer Link
• Checking if Cambridge has access to a book on Springer Link
• Checking if you are logged in on the Springer Link platform
• Logging in to the Springer Link platform
• Application Error when logging in on Springer Link

Availability of ebook titles on Springer Link

We know that many of our users browse the Springer Link platform in search of content. Cambridge has access to a large number of ebooks on the platform through ebook collections, as well as a small selection of individually purchased Springer and Palgrave Macmillan titles.

Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to purchase access to all ebook titles hosted on Springer Link. We recommend searching for available ebook titles in iDiscover using the Cambridge Libraries Collections search, as we add records for all of our subscribed and purchased titles. You may also find that a Springer or Palgrave Macmillan title is available on a different ebook platform, such as EBSCOhost, Ebook Central or VLeBooks.

If you require access to any titles not already available in our collections, please do make a recommendation through our Online recommendation form, and the request will go to the relevant acquisitions team for consideration.

If you just need a chapter (and a title is not available in our collections in print or as an ebook), then it may also be possible to request access to the chapter through the Request a Digital Copy service via iDiscover. More information can be found on the Request a Digital Copy LibGuide. Alternatively, Inter-Library Loans might be able to help.

If you are not able to visit the library, Scan and Deliver may also be an option if we hold a print copy in Cambridge University Libraries.

Checking if Cambridge has access to a book on Springer Link

As mentioned, the best way to check if we have access to an ebook is by searching in iDiscover, especially as we might have access to a title through a different ebook provider.

However, you can also check access on Springer Link if you happen to find an interesting book when browsing the website.

A book that is accessible to Cambridge users will display a Download book PDF or a Download book EPUB link at the top of the right sidebar.

You will also see the text “Access provided by University of Cambridge” at the top of the Table of Contents.

A book that is not accessible to Cambridge users will display an “Access via your institution” link at the top of the right sidebar, even if you are already logged in.

Above the Table of Contents, you will also see the following text: “This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.”

Again, this text displays if you are not logged in, or if you are logged in but Cambridge does not have access.

The wording is a bit confusing, as it does seem to suggest that you are not logged in, even though you might be. The next section explains how to check if you are already logged in.

Checking if you are logged in on the Springer Link platform

You can check if you are logged in to the Springer Link platform at the foot of the webpage.

You should see a list of items, starting with “JISC Journal Usage Statistics Portal”. The list will include the text “University of Cambridge (2000188110)”.

If you are not logged in, it will simply show your IP address and say, “Not affiliated”.

Logging in to the Springer Link platform

There are a few different ways that Cambridge users can be authenticated on the platform:

• You should automatically be recognised as a Cambridge user if you are on campus and using the Cambridge network (eduroam for Cambridge students and staff).
• iDiscover records for ebook titles will automatically direct you via your Raven login if you are off campus.
• The Springer Link link on the A-Z Databases or Ebooks LibGuide A-Z is also configured to send users via their Raven login when they are accessing e-resources remotely.
• You can log in on the platform with your Raven credentials by clicking “Access via your institution” and searching for “University of Cambridge” under “Find your institution”.

Application Error when logging in on Springer Link

You might see an Application Error message when logging in on the platform through “Access via your institution“:

This error can occur if your web browser has remembered a previous login in the form of a cookie stored on your browser. The cookie may skip parts of the login process, which can make logging in quicker, but for security reasons Springer block these kinds of logins after a period of time, resulting in this Application Error.

You can resolve the error by clearing your browser cache and logging in again. This website has more information on how to clear your cache and cookies. You can also trying using a different browser, or incognito or private browsing.

Alternatively, you can try logging in through a different route. (See section “Logging in to the Springer Link platform”.)

Please ignore the instructions in the error message advising you to simply try again without clearing your cache, as you may end up going round in circles.

Please do get in touch if you have any ebook questions. Write to us at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Please contact ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk with questions about Springer ejournals.

Collections update: Synthesis Collection of Technology

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The ebook collection formerly known as Morgan & Claypool has a new online home on SpringerLink under the name Synthesis Collection of Technology!

Cambridge users have access to 1200+ DRM-free Engineering, Computing and Mathematics ebooks in this collection. This includes titles that were previously in the Morgan & Claypool Synthesis, Computer & Information Science, and AI & Machine Learning collections (2005-2021) as well as new ebook collections purchased in 2022 and 2023.

Users can filter by Discipline, Subdiscipline from the menu bar on the left of the screen under Refine Your Search.

All records are available in iDiscover. Please see below for a sample list of titles from the 2023 collection. The links will take you directly to the relevant ebook on SpringerLink:

• Robotic Micromanipulation of Zebrafish Larva
• Ethical Tech Startup Guide
• Photobiomodulation for the Brain
• Periodic Motions to Chaos in a Spring-Pendulum System
• An Introduction to Programming Languages: Simultaneous Learning in Multiple Coding Environments
• Toward Robots That Reason: Logic, Probability & Causal Laws
• Monte Carlo Simulations Using Microsoft EXCEL®
• Keywords In and Out of Context
• Descriptive Statistics for Scientists and Engineers
• Essential Perturbation Methods

Please contact the ebooks team if you have any questions about the Synthesis Collection of Technology on SpringerLink. Contact us as ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Springer EBA updates – includes new Engineering subscription for 2023-24!

Renewal: Mathematics & Statistics and Biomedical & Life Sciences EBAs

We are pleased to announce that we have renewed our two popular Springer ebook subscriptions (Mathematics & Statistics and Biomedical & Life Sciences) for another year. This “rolling” subscription model covers the four most recent years (2020-23), so that Cambridge users will always have access to the most up-to-date research, conference publications and teaching works in these collections, including new content as it is published through the rest of 2023.

These subscriptions are also Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) schemes, which means that Cambridge STEMM Librarians use the full annual subscription fees to purchase perpetual access to the most popular and useful titles from the subscriptions. Subject Librarians are currently selecting titles from our previous year’s subscription, which covered the years 2019-22. 

New: Springer Engineering EBA

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We are delighted to announce that we have recently added yet another subscription to our Springer EBA bow with the Springer Engineering collection! Over 5000 DRM-free Springer Engineering books and conference proceedings in the 2020-23 collections have now been opened up to Cambridge users. More new content will be made available throughout the rest of 2023 as it is published.

Please note that selected reference works are not included and will display as Preview Only, but the subscription covers the vast majority of recently published Engineering books available on the SpringerLink platform with a wealth of titles to suit a range of subdisciplines, including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Applications, Agriculture, Machine Learning, Biotechnology, Industrial and Production Engineering, Engineering Design, and many more. 

Users can filter by Content Type (Book, Chapter, Conference Proceeding, and Conference Paper), Discipline, Subdiscipline and Language via the menu bar on the left of the webpage.

The catalogue records are now available in iDiscover. More records will be added on a regular basis as newly published 2023 content becomes available on the Springer platform.

Please also see below for an example of recent works available through this new subscription. The titles are hyperlinked and will take you to the relevant book on the SpringerLink platform.

• Fundamentals of Railway Design
• Designing with the Wind: Climate-Derived Architecture
• Photonic Crystal and Its Applications for Next Generation Systems
• Processing-in-Memory for AI: From Circuits to Systems
• High Performance and Power Efficient Electrocardiogram Detectors

We hope that Cambridge Engineers will find this subscription a valuable addition to our existing Springer access.  

In Technology news, we can also let you know that the Morgan & Claypool purchased collections in Computer Science and Engineering have a new home now on SpringerLink, as part of the Springer Synthesis Collection of Technology collection. A separate blogpost about these collections will follow soon. 

As ever, please do get in touch with the ebooks team if you have any questions about the new Engineering collection, or any other Springer content. Or, indeed, anything at all related to ebooks! We’re always very happy to help. Write to: ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk 

‘MyCollection’ Maths and Statistics ebooks on SpringerLink

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Cambridge University Libraries is pleased to announce that access has been opened up to Springer Mathematics and Statistics 2015-2020 ebook collections on SpringerLink.

There are currently about 2,700 available titles, and further titles will be added as they are published. Monographs, contributed volumes, handbooks and textbooks in Springer designated sub-disciplines such as Partial Differential Equations, Functional Analysis, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Physics, Topology, Game Theory, Integral Equations, and Engineering Fluid Dynamics are included in these collections.

Records for these DRM-free titles will be loaded into iDiscover over the next few days, and are accessible for unlimited concurrent users, both on and off campus via a Raven login.

These yearly collections will be available in full until the 31st December 2020 in the first instance, at which point some of the most popular titles will be purchased in perpetuity.

Selective titles in Engineering, Computer Science and Architecture have also been purchased in perpetuity and will be searchable in iDiscover very soon.

A taster of available titles are listed below:

• Ockendon – Waves and Compressible Flow
• Fomenko – Homotopical Topology
• Shumway – Time Series Analysis and Its Applications
• Campbell – An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics
• Langtangen – A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (5th ed.)
• Kauffman – Handbook of Sustainable Engineering
• Paar – Understanding Cryptography
• Mordechai – Mathematical Logic for Computer Science

MyCopy Service

University of Cambridge registered users can order their own soft print versions of licensed Springer ebook titles for £24.99 each. You can order directly from each individual ebook title homepage. See https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/products/ebooks/my-copy for further details.

SpringerLink textbooks – temporary access during COVID-19

The University of Cambridge has temporary access to 407 Springer Nature textbook titles on the SpringerLink platform, until at least the 31st of July 2020. The full text of these titles are available now and will be searchable in iDiscover from 10am on Friday the 10th April, using a Raven login.

Some popular and award winning titles include…

Managing Sustainable Business : an executive education case and textbook edited by Gilbert G. Lenssen & N. Craig Smith

Neural Networks and Deep Learning : a textbook by Charu C. Aggarwal

Modeling Life : the mathematics of biological systems edited by Alan Garfinkel, Jane Shevtsov, & Yina Guo

Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences : a practical introduction with examples in SPSS and Stata by Daniel Stockemer

Introduction to Formal Philosophy edited by Sven Ove Hansson & Vincent F. Hendricks

Motivation and Action edited by Jutta Heckhausen & Heinz Heckhausen

The analysis bit…

Broken down into STMM and HSS titles, the quantities and academic level of the temporarily available titles across the subjects are illustrated below;

A list of available titles can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet from the following link:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4

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Access to Biomedical and Life Sciences ebooks on SpringerLink continues

The Moore Library is pleased to announce the continued access to the popular Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences ebook collections on the SpringerLink platform. As of the 1st March, titles published so far in 2018 have been opened up for University of Cambridge users; this means that access is now available to all titles published from 2015 – 2018 inclusive.

There are currently 1,898 available titles and further titles will be added as they are published during 2018. Monograhs, contributed volumes, handbooks and selected encyclopaedias in Springer designated sub-disciplines such as Animal Models, Cell Biology, Human Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Plant Sciences are includes in these collections.

The full text of these titles can be found and accessed from iDiscover, and are accessible for unlimited concurrent users, both on and off campus via a Raven login.

These collections will be available in full until the end of February 2019, at which point the most popular titles will be purchased in perpetuity.

A selection of recently published titles are listed below:

Brooks -Veterinary Forensic Pathology, Volume 2

Choi – Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules (2nd ed.)

Ehara – Sago Palm

Jacobson – Neuroanatomy for the Neuroscientist

Pokorski – Current Concepts in Medical Research and Practice

If you have any feedback or comments on these ebooks, please email the Moore Library Librarian, Yvonne Nobis, at yn235@cam.ac.uk or the ebooks@cambridge team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

 

Biomedical and Life Sciences ebooks on SpringerLink

The Moore Library is pleased to announce that access is now available to Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences 2015- 2017 ebook collections on the SpringerLink platform.

There are currently 1,546 available titles, and further 2017 titles will be added as they are published. Monographs, contributed volumes, handbooks and selected encyclopaedias in Springer designated sub-disciplines such as Animal Models, Cell Biology, Human Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Plant Sciences are included in these collections.

The full text of these titles can be found in and accessed from iDiscover, and are accessible for unlimited concurrent users, both on and off campus via a Raven login.

These collections will be available in full until the 31st December 2017 in the first instance, at which point the most popular titles will be purchased in perpetuity.

A taster of available titles are listed below;

Turksen – Genome Editing

Levitan & Dopico – Vascular Ion Channels in Physiology and Disease

Chapple – New Zealand Lizards

Farooqui – Therapeutic Potentials of Curcumin for Alzheimer Disease

Pergentino de Sousa – Bioactive Essential Oils and Cancer

Roques – Processionary Moths and Climate Change : An Update

Yang & Bialkowska – Intestinal Tumorigenesis

Barbieri – Code Biology : A New Science of Life

Jain – Textbook of Personalized Medicine

Henke & Tattersall – Handbook of Paleoanthropology (2nd ed.)

De Silva & Vance – Scientific Scholarly Communication

Bleidorn – Phylogenomics : An Introduction

DeKosky – Decoding the Antibody Repertoire

Pachana – Encyclopedia of Geropsychology

          

If you have any feedback or comments on these new ebook collections, please email Yvonne Nobis at yn235@cam.ac.uk or the ebooks@cambridge team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.