The news blog for the University of Cambridge, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry Library
Monthly Archives: April 2020
The University of Cambridge now has access to the BioCyc Database Collection, a new subscription for covid research. BioCyc is a collection of 17043 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for exploring them. Key aspects of BioCyc data: Quality data curated from tens of thousands of publications, including curated […]
BibliU is an e-textbook provider who, together with their partners in the academic publishing community, has opened up a really useful selection of textbook titles for current staff and students at the University of Cambridge. This free access will be enabled until the 30th June 2020. It’s easy to access the textbooks, please click on […]
Clarivate Analytics Introduce New Open Access Data in Journal Citation Reports. Clarivate Analytics have announced the addition of open access data to Journal Citation Reports profile pages to increase transparency around open access models in scholarly publishing. The new data show each journal’s articles by access model. This provides the research community with transparent, publisher-neutral […]
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 […]
As new eresources are made available due to COVID-19 they are being added to the Databases A-Z and promoted by the ejournals and ebooks teams on WordPress blogs (ejournals@cambridge and ebooks@cambridge) and Twitter (@ejournalscamb and @ebookscamb). When records are available in Alma for the new databases and collections they will be activated and be loaded […]
The University of Cambridge has trial access to Elsevier’s ClinicalKey Student collection until the 30th of June 2020. The platform can be accessed from the following link; https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.clinicalkey.com/student ClinicalKey Student is an innovative portfolio of ebooks, images and videos combined with interactive tools and analytics to support teaching and learning in UK medical programmes. In […]
The University of Cambridge has trial access to core textbooks and recommended readings published by McGraw-Hill and Open University Press. The current offer includes five subject collections, hosted on the BibliU platform, and free access extends until the 30th of June 2020.
On BibliU you are able to search for a particular title or browse multiple titles by searching for keywords or phrases.
You can create your own list of favourite titles by clicking on the heart icon on the dust jacket images, and then you can choose whether to search across all the books available or just within your favourites.
Please tell us what you think of this collection using the feedback form
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 […]
The University of Cambridge has access to Textbooks on Cambridge Core until the end of May 2020. Cambridge Core provides access to a collection of over 2000 ebooks, including Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions, and Cambridge Elements. Please tell us what you think of this collection using the online form. Key features of textbooks on Cambridge […]
Rockefeller University Press journals in life sciences & biomedicine are now available to access until 31st may 2020. Please send any feedback about these journals via the online form. The journals available are: JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) publishes advances in any area of basic cell biology as well as applied cellular […]
The ebooks collections from GeoScienceWorld are available to access until 30th June 2020. The titles available are included on this list. Please send your feedback about this book collection via the online form. The GSW eBook Collections provide sophisticated integration of high value, full-text content with the convenience of downloadable chapters. The platform is cross-searchable […]
Access is available until 30th June to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, ProQuest Central, and Academic Video Online. Please send feedback about any of these eresources via the online form. PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS & THESES GLOBAL ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, […]
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 […]
The Oxford Handbooks Online Physical Sciences collection is now available to access until 31st May 2020. Please send you feedback via the online form. The Physical Sciences, comprising the disciplines of chemistry, physics, astronomy, and earth science, and underpinned by the language of mathematics, constitute our study of the non-living natural world. Oxford Handbooks Online in Physical […]
The University of Cambridge now has access to the Lyell Collection (Geological Society Publications) via this link 12 June 2020. The Lyell Collection is an integrated collection of online Earth Science literature, bringing together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series. Please tell us what you liked about this collection by using your feedback […]
Access to the chemistry and medical journals on the Thieme Connect platform is available until 30th June 2020. Feedback about this access should be sent via the online feedback form. Thieme’s E-Journal collection spans over 130 research and review journals in medicine and life science. Especially designed for the research and information needs of hospitals, […]
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 […]
A special collection of 35,000+ ebooks is now freely available to University of Cambridge registered students and staff until the 30th of June 2020, via your Raven logins. Works from more than 80 scholarly publishers have been opened up for full text access; a title list can be downloaded from the following link https://www.jstor.org/titlelists/books/covid-19-books-offer-complimentary A […]
The Medical Library Association (MLA) has curated a list of resources for medical librarians and other health information professionals at this site: COVID-19 resources for medical librarians & health information professionals from the Medical Library Association This curated list will be updated as frequently as possible and has been created from crowd-sourced suggestions from MLA […]
The University of Cambridge has trial access to Perlego until 27 April 2020. Perlego provides access to over 300,000 titles, including trade publications, across a wide range of subjects: Architecture & Design, Business & Management, Economics, History, IT & Computer Science, Law, Literature & Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy & Theology, Politics & International Relations, Psychology, […]