Quantcast
Channel: Libraries – Cambridge Core Blog
Viewing all 52 articles
Browse latest View live

The Bookless Library

0
0
The library at Imperial College London could become the first bookless academic library in the UK, according to the Imperial Library Services Director, Deborah Shorley. During a presentation at the excellent 2012 Cambridge Libraries Conference,…

The Library as Publisher

0
0
The Cambridge University Library has embarked on an ambitious and impressive project to digitise and showcase some of the unique and valuable material in its collections. For those of you who haven’t experienced the Cambridge…

Cambridge Journals Archive now available throughout Russia

0
0
The 2011 Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Complete Collection… is now available online to all universities, research institutes, colleges and educational institutions in Russia. This national agreement has been made possible by the generosity of the

Visiting recently flooded libraries in Thailand

0
0
On a recent visit to university libraries in Thailand, we experienced the aftermath of the 2011 flooding at first hand. At Kasetsart University in Bangkok we saw watermarks on the library walls up to 2…

Libraries and fallible knowledge

0
0
In the latest issue of Think…, Stephen Hetherington considers fallible knowledge while visiting the State Library of New South Wales. A library itself imposes order on information through selection and classification, and alters the

Kindle Part 4: 5 things you didn’t know you could do on your Kindle

0
0
With the different models available and decreasing prices, more and more people seem to be purchasing Amazon Kindles. I noticed from conversations on social media however that some features of the Kindle I love are…

How we make research available in developing countries

0
0
We work with a wide variety of partners to make all the journals we publish available to researchers in developing countries. In total our programmes cover over 6,500 universities and research institutes throughout the developing…

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive is now available throughout China

0
0
The National Library of China (NLC) has finalised an agreement to make the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (CJDA) Complete Collection available to academic institutions throughout China. The complete 2011 CJDA comprises 207 journal backfiles, with…

Extended Cambridge Journals Archive now available throughout Russia

0
0
Another substantial section of the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Complete Collection is now available online to all universities, research institutes, colleges and educational institutions in Russia. The agreement covers recent backfiles of leading journals from…

Cambridge Books Online reaches 20,000 titles

0
0
Cambridge University Press’s flagship Academic eBook product, Cambridge Books Online (CBO), has reached the landmark figure of 20,000 uploaded titles, just three years to the day after its initial launch. Within a fully responsive and…

Cambridge Books Online by numbers

EBA in the UK

0
0
UK academic institutions can now access Cambridge ebook collections via an Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) model agreed through Jisc Collections, an organisation which works on behalf of UK education. Under this EBA model, institutions are…

A Defence of Stealing E-Books

0
0
This blogpost is adapted from an article by Andrew T. Forcehimes, published in the Summer 2013 issue of Think: Philosophy for Everyone. … Public libraries are a wonderful resource. However, not too long ago I realized

New institutional ebook pricing 2014

0
0
On May 1st 2014, we radically changed the pricing model for Cambridge ebooks available to institutions. The changes have created a simpler pricing structure, making it easier for institutional customers to buy Cambridge ebooks. Under…

An insight into Ancient Libraries

0
0
Many iconic ruins across the world are all that remains of the libraries of the past. Who built these libraries? Who created the first ‘public library’? And were the libraries of the past built to…

Profile: Matt Day, Head of Open Publishing and Data at Cambridge University Press

0
0
Matt Day says that his newly-created role of Head of Open Publishing and Data at CUP, although it focuses strongly on Open Access journals, is about openness more generally, including transparency and the reproducibility of the content that CUP receives from authors.…

Running one of the world’s great research libraries

0
0
Stockholm University is among the world’s top 100 HEIs. 70,000 students, 1,800 doctoral students and 5,000 staff work within the full spectrum of disciplines.…

Running a library on the Caribbean island of Roatan

0
0
Your website goes down and the server you host with refuses to restart it due to payment complications; your computer network crashes, completely wiping your digital cataloging software; the budgets that you’re working from are under constant threat of being slashed, or funds withdrawn permanently; sounds like the year from hell for most librarians.…

Cambridge Asia Librarians’ Day 2016

0
0
The fifth (Asian) Cambridge Librarians Day was held in Seoul, South Korea, on 11th January, kindly hosted by the staff of Seoul National University (SNU) Library.  Over fifty librarians attended from academic libraries across the whole of South Korea, together with members of the Cambridge Asian Librarians Advisory Board [CALAB], representing several countries across Asia.

Parents Just Don’t Understand: Ambiguity in Stories about the Childhood of Jesus

0
0
“Parents Just Don’t Understand: Ambiguity in Stories about the Childhood of Jesus” Chris Frilingos, Michigan State University   This article is about early Christian accounts of the family life of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.…
Viewing all 52 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images