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. We are aware that it is not always clear what ebooks should be available to Cambridge users on Springer Link, and we are also aware that a recurrent error message appears when users try to log in on the platform, so we hope that this blog post will ..read more

The UL has recently purchased a number of 2024 ebook collections from Brill, and our access has now been switched on. We first started doing this back in 2014, replacing our many print standing orders by buying most of Brill’s annual subject collections. Over the course of the next year we will gradually gain permanent, DRM-free access to nearly 1,000 titles as they are released, in the following collections: Asian Studies Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity Classical Studies Early Modern History and Modern History International Law (funded by the Squire Law Library) La ..read more

The University of Cambridge has signed up to join JSTOR’s new Path to Open ebook scheme. This is a major Open Access initiative from JSTOR, which involves publishing 1,000 ebooks from over thirty different academic publishers between now and the end of 2026. For a period of three years after publication, each title will only be available as an ebook to those institutions who are participating in Path to Open; after the end of this embargo period, they will go on to be made Open Access, and will be freely available to readers worldwide. There will be 100 titles published in the scheme in 2023 ..read more

For the past couple of years, the UL’s Collections and Academic Liaison English-language budget has purchased Stanford University Press’s annual frontlist collection, hosted on the De Gruyter platform. We have now purchased their 2024 collection, meaning that we will have permanent, DRM-free (i.e. unlimited) access to titles published by Stanford during the course of the next year; we will also continue to have access to their 2000-2013 backlist (a collection of c. 1500 titles). Records for new titles will be added as they are published, with titles for the backlist collection already availabl ..read more

Between the beginning of August and the end of October, 245 titles were triggered for purchase across the UL’s two demand-driven acquisition (DDA) schemes. Cambridge readers are as eclectic as ever in their interests: thanks to their activity, we now own ebooks about (amongst others) pathological lying, Schubert’s instrumental music, and contemporary American climate fiction. There remain nearly 8,500 unowned titles available across Ebook Central and JSTOR, with more being added each week. A selection of recently published titles which we have acquired in perpetuity through the DDAs can be see ..read more

The UL’s Collections and Academic Liaison English-language budget has purchased Duke University Press’s 2024 ebooks collection. As in previous years, this means that we will have permanent, DRM-free access to c.120 frontlist titles published in the next year, and we will continue to have access to nearly 3,000 backlist titles for the duration of 2024. Duke University Press describes itself thus: Duke University Press supports scholars in doing what they are passionate about: learning, teaching, and effecting positive change in the world. This bold, progressive spirit drives both what and how w ..read more

The ebooks@cambridge team is pleased to announce the launch of a new evidence-based (EBA) scheme which has allowed us to open up unlimited DRM-free access to around 1,850 extra titles on the Bloomsbury Collections platform. All titles published (and to be published) 2021-2023 in the following subject collections are included; Africa, Asia and Latin American Studies; Art & Visual Culture; Biblical Studies; Classical Studies & Archaeology; Design; Education; Fashion; Film & Media Studies; History; Linguistics; Literary Studies; Middle East; Music & Sound Studies; Philosophy; Pol ..read more

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 r ..read more

The UL’s evidence-based (EBA) scheme with De Gruyter has been renewed for another calendar year, taking it through to the end of 2024. Funded jointly by the UL’s Collection and Academic Liaison (from the English and German budgets), it will give Cambridge readers unlimited, DRM-free access to approximately 120,500 titles. As well as the various De Gruyter imprints, there are nearly thirty partner presses who participate in the EBA, including Edinburgh University Press, Gorgias Press, and Princeton University Press, among others. Records for titles are loaded monthly by the ebooks@cambridge tea ..read more

Photo by Adi Goldstein on Unsplash 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 ..read more