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The future of the Anglican Communion: Primates, numbers, and other considerations By Daniel Muñoz

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The future of the Anglican Communion hung in the air – or rather a whirlwind – of uncertainty, as Anglican Primates from around world met in Lambeth in mid-January 2016.…

Journals aid and donation in developing countries: An interview with Anne Powell of INASP

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Cambridge University Press works with several international aid programs to secure sustainable access to research for people living in developing countries.

C. S. Lewis on Anders Nygren: “He has shaken me up extremely” by Dr Jason Lepojärvi, St Benet’s Hall, Oxford

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Many will find it surprising to learn of the connection between C. S. Lewis and Anders Nygren. In his recent book on Lewis, Alister McGrath notes that Lewis “disconnected” himself from modern theological debates.…

2016 NAG / Nielsen prize for Innovation goes to Helen Adey and Dorothy Atherton

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Helen Adey, a much valued members of CUP’s librarian panel, of Nottingham Trent University Library and her colleague Dorothy Atherton, provided a conference highlight with their talk on NTU’s Your Books, More Books initiative [YBMB], which won the NAG / Nielsen Award for Innovation 2016.…

Academic Publishing and the UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

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As part of the celebrations for Academic Book Week, the Booksellers Association sponsored a seminar, called From REF to TEF, which considered the implications that the UK Teaching Excellence Framework [TEF] might have for the academic publishing and bookselling industries.  The seminar took place at the British Library on Wednesday 25th January.

The National Policy for Open Access in Sweden

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Wilhelm Widmark, Library Director of Stockholm University Library, presented to the Cambridge University Press Global Library Advisory Board in November 2016 about the Swedish national policy for implementing Open Access (OA).…

Cambridge Asia Librarians’ Day 2017

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Creating Connections – Building Bridges was the theme of the sixth Cambridge Asia Librarians’ day held on Monday 16th January 2017 and hosted by the Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta.…

Constructed Female Bodies

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Female sexual and sexualized bodies are constructed in multiple ways. One construction posits that females are autonomous and self-determining, and advocates for unimpeded choice regarding sexual expression, bodies, and reproduction.

Changes to OpenAthens authentication for Cambridge Core

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Cambridge University Press (CUP) is working with OpenAthens to upgrade and improve the existing implementation of OpenAthens authentication for Cambridge Core and other online resources from Cambridge.

LIBRARIAN PERSPECTIVES: Ángela María Mejía, Library System Director, Universidad de los Andes

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To celebrate Cambridge Core’s first birthday, we have launched, Librarian Perspectives, a series of interviews with librarians from around the world.…

Teaching and learning resources: the changing UK landscape

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For the 2017 Academic Book Trade conference, the Booksellers Association commissioned a report (Resource Provision in Higher Education) to examine how teaching and learning resource needs might change in the UK as a result of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

Profile: Erika Banski, Carleton University Library, Canada

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Erika Banski is Head of Cataloguing and Collection Maintenance at Carleton University Library, Ottawa, Canada Erika Banski was working as a librarian in the former Yugoslavia (now Serbia) when the Bosnian War began.…

Cambridge Open Access books for your library

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Did you know that Open Access books are available via Cambridge Core?  These books cover topics across law, literature, life sciences, politics and more, and can be accessed online by readers from across the world without charge or licence agreement.…

LIBRARIAN PERSPECTIVES: Erik Alonso García Arellano, Collection Development Coordinator, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

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Curriculum design, technology, and a special project called “Vínculo Académico”. These are some of the subjects discussed in our second Librarian Perspectives interview, with Erik Alonso García Arellano, Collection Development Coordinator at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Santa Fe Campus, in Mexico City.…

PERPSECTIVAS BIBLIOTECARIAS: Erik Alonso García, coordinador de Desarrollo de Colecciones en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, campus Santa Fe, en la Ciudad de México

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Diseño curricular, tecnología, y un proyecto especial llamado “Vínculo Académico”. Estos son algunos de los temas tratados en la segunda entrega de PERSPECTIVAS BIBLIOTECARIAS, donde entrevistamos a Erik Alonso García Arellano, coordinador de Desarrollo de Colecciones en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), campus Santa Fe, en la Ciudad de México.…

Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) FAQ

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We’ve put together the following FAQs based on feedback from the increasing number of institutions taking an EBA from Cambridge. We hope you find them useful!…

Innovation in Library and Information Services: a view from Dr Rama Patnaik, IIM, Bangalore

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Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce that it has recently set up its South Asian Librarian Advisory Board [SALAB].  The new board, whose fourteen members are senior librarians from universities across the whole of India, enjoyed a very successful meeting in New Delhi at the end of October.…

LIBRARIAN PERSPECTIVES: Lucía Brito, Biomedical Research Institute, National Autonomous University (UNAM), Mexico City

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[True, we had said that this interview would feature Shirley Ainsworth. But one additional librarian answered our questions with plenty of enthusiasm, and we thought this post could not wait.] The largest public library network in Latin America, 135 libraries at UNAM, and a project to acquire electronic resources are some of the themes discussed by Lucía Brito Ocampo, Coordinator at the “Dionisio Nieto” library of the Biomedical Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas), at the Mexico City campus of National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM).…

PERSPECTIVAS BIBLIOTECARIAS: Lucía Brito, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Ciudad de México

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[Es verdad: habíamos dicho que la siguiente bibliotecaria sería Shirley Ainsworth. Pero una bibliotecaria más nos respondió esta entrevista con mucho entusiasmo y pensamos que era impostergable publicarla].

2017 Charleston Library Conference

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The recent Charleston Library Conference, held November 6-10, 2017, was an excellent opportunity for academic librarians, vendors, and publishers to meet, listen to, and comment on each other’s initiatives, plans, and concerns for the future.…
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