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The South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922 archive from Readex is available to members of the University of Cambridge both on and off campus (off campus access requires a University account). Non-members can access the archive on campus at the University Library.

Created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries and its contributing members this one-of-a-kind collection provides online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English-, Gujarati- and Bengali-language papers published in India, in the regions of the Subcontinent that now comprise Pakistan, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), South Asian Newspapers offers extensive coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent between 1864 and 1922.

South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922, covers the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion; construction of railroads; effects of British Colonial rule; Hindu-Muslim conflicts; life on coffee, tea and rubber plantations; Morely-Minto Reforms; formation of the Indian National Congress; start of Mahatma Gandhi’s independence movement; economics, politics, the arts; and much more. Offering a variety of perspectives, the important newspapers in this collection are ideal for comparing and contrasting views on both local and global issues.

South Asian Newspapers includes such titles as Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Kayasare Hinda (Bombay), Pioneer (Allahabad, India), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka). Through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative updates, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death
notices, this collection chronicles the evolution of cultures and communities across South Asia during a time of intense change.

Text from Readex.

Image by Balaji Srinivasan from Pixabay

Cambridge University members have access to Web Thermo Tables (NIST), a web application that delivers the most-up-to-date critically evaluated thermodynamic data.

Features include:

• Data presentation features an interactive JavaScript-based Web interface with dynamic window-in-window navigation.
• Dynamic table generation based upon user input and interactive data plotting capabilities are also provided.
• Various search options based on compound information such as: empirical formula, partial name, molecular weight. 
• Unlimited data retrieval and their local storage and use are permitted.
• Detailed description of key elements in the experimental investigations such as sample purification and measurement methods
• Worldwide collection of scientific journals
• Up-to-date information on major publications

WTT PRO – this is a complete collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data primarily for pure organic compounds. As of November, 2011, WTT pro contains information on 23, 399 compounds.

Also available via the Cambridge Databases A-Z

Cambridge University members now have access to Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS) via the Databases A-Z

Cambridge University Libraries has licensed and provide CKS for educational use (including use in course packs and for research by University members). NICE Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS) site is only available to users in the UK.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

‘Quick answers to clinical questions

Clinical Knowledge Summaries are concise, accessible summaries of current evidence for primary care professionals. There are over 370 topics to choose from.

The topics focus on the most common and significant presentations in primary care. They give trusted information to support safe decision-making and improve standards of patient care.’

Above text from the publishers website

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

Cambridge University students and researchers now have access to the Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences reference collection (2001-2024). Please see this blog post by ebooks@cambridge for more information:

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

Cambridge University members now have access to updated content from Bloomsbury Cultural History:

The six-volume A Cultural History of Hinduism set

The six-volume A Cultural History of Leisure set

The six-volume A Cultural History of Mathematics set

Alongside the update three new subject guides on Animals, Food and Drink, and War, have also been added. The subject guides can be found along with other learning resources.

From the publisher website:

Bloomsbury Cultural History is an Bloomsbury Cultural History is an extraordinary, fully cross-searchable digital resource that engages with culture throughout the ages from antiquity to modernity. Thanks to its interdisciplinary nature and ever-expanding collections, this unique digital reference tool promises to be an essential resource on many courses from cultural studies and sociology to history and anthropology.

Access Bloomsbury Cultural History via this direct link or the Databases A-Z. Individual titles are available via iDiscover

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a curated collection of freely available ejournals and is available for use by everyone.

DOAJ’s mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language.

DOAJ is committed to being 100% independent and maintaining all of its primary services and metadata as free for everyone.

The DOAJ includes information about publishing in the journals as well as indexing the articles that are available to read. If you are looking for a fully Open Access journal to publish in the DOAJ you can filter the journals by subject and see from the search results if there is a charge to publish in the title and whether you would retain rights to the article.

The fuller records for the journals include more information about the licenses for publishing and

All of the titles in the DOAJ are searchable iDiscover at journal and article title level.

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

OPEN – DOAJ is a vital part of the global open access infrastructure.

GLOBAL – DOAJ is a global community, with team members, ambassadors and volunteers based in 45 countries around the world, speaking 36 languages.

TRUSTED – Globally, DOAJ’s criteria have become a gold standard for open access publishing.

Publishers who would like their Open Access journals added to the DOAJ can apply online.

The LOEB Classical Library is available on and off campus to members of the University of Cambridge and on campus to non-members of the university. A link to the resource is available from the Databases A-Z.

Founded by James Loeb in 1911 to place the written treasures of the Greek and Roman past within the reach of all interested readers, the Loeb Classical Library has for more than a century produced its iconic green and red editions of ancient masterworks in a convenient, affordable, and accessible format. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; satire and the novel; history, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations, both in print and online. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies, and the series is continually revised and updated in light of modern scholarship.

LXXXVII
Nvlla potest mulier tantum se dicere amatamvere, quantum a me Lesbia amata mea’s.nulla fides ullo fuit umquam1 foedere tanta,quanta in amore tuo ex parte reperta meast.LXXXVII
No woman can say truly that she has been loved as much as you, Lesbia mine, were loved by me. No faithfulness in any bond was ever such as has been found on my part in my love for you.Poem 87 by Catullus from ‘Catullus, Poems’ LCL 6: 162-163

“Its scope is huge—Homer to Bede—and its search capabilities will make it a sine qua non even for readers who do not really need the translations… The digital Loeb will be a godsend to all sorts of people, not just to or even primarily to classicists. College students will have instant trots at their fingertips. Readers whose interests extend beyond contemporary fiction (and there are many, despite what the book pages of most newspapers seem to suggest these days) will benefit from the easy access and the readability of the Loebs, not to mention the various sorts of useful research that can be quickly done with the search function.”—Bruce Whiteman, Los Angeles Review of Books

Cambridge University members have full access to “le site de presse de la BnF”, Retronews.

As the French legislative elections approach, we invite you to delve into the RetroNews archives to help you better understand current issues and shed light on your perspective. Explore this rich and varied press collection, and discover how past events still resonate today.

These articles, among many others, will allow you to better understand the historical dynamics that led to the current political situation. By diving into the press background, you will be able to compare the speeches, strategies and reactions of yesterday and today.

Abstention, blank vote: the press gives its opinion

1913: “We will now vote in envelopes”

What the “Popular National Rally” was

For an excellent introduction to this new resource please see the European Languages Across Borders promotion that describes Retronews in detail.

Retronews subscription provides access to the full, unabbreviated versions of the articles plus long-form research articles. The earliest title, La Gazette de Theophraste Renaudot, dates back to 1631. Retronews adds newly digitized archives to the site each week and Cambridge now contributes to fund the growth of the digitization.  The majority of the newspapers were published between 1881 (the passing of press freedom law) and 1914, reflecting the golden age of the French press; from Zola to Durand, from Colette to Roussel, explore Retronews for as many views on the history, culture, politics, religion, leisure and social and regional life of France as there are pages to read.

To get the most out of Retronews, please read the guidance on searching, filtering search results, and researching term frequency here. And for general navigation of the site and individual titles/pages see here. Retronews supplies help also in the form of tutorial videos.

You can access Retronews directly on or off campus via this link or via the Cambridge University Libraries E-resources A-Z. Titles are also discoverable in iDiscover.

You may also be interested in the A-Z Databases: Francophone Area Studies, which includes Europresse, which provides access to current newspapers but also to some of their archives. And Cambridge’s new acquisition of the Le Monde digital archive 1944-2000.

Cambridge University Libraries now provide a refreshed A-Z Databases here and via the e-resources home page.

Highlights of the A-Z include:-

Cleaner, smarter display now comprising a description of most databases in-line. (All words in the descriptions are searchable.)

Our Library Chat service as a floating widget.

“Useful links” box in the right-hand pane.

“Icon legend” box explaining what each icon signifies in the A-Z entries.

A link to to the e-resources FAQs now migrated to LibAnswers.

A link to the form to recommend a new resource.

As part of our continuing improvement program to the A-Z, we are replacing any links to resources accessed via HTTP with new links via HTTPS wherever this is possible and over the summer updating and displaying terms & conditions for use of databases.

Almost all subjects in the A-Z now have an “expert” assigned, which is usually a library team. Remember we can configure your subject to display databases in the “Best bets” section as you wish (these no longer have to be ordered alphabetically) or remove this section entirely if you prefer.

Please contact ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk and libapps@lib.cam.ac.uk with any questions.

Members of the University of Cambridge have access to the Al-Ahram Digital Archive, the full publication run of the Egyptian newspaper, on the East View platform. Non-members of the university can access the archive on campus at the University Library.

Founded in 1875, Al-Ahram (الأهرام‎, “The Pyramids”) is one of the longest-running newspapers in the Middle East. It has long been regarded as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential newspaper, and one of the most important newspapers in the Arab world, with a circulation of over 1 million. Prior to 1960, the newspaper was an independent publication and was renowned for its objectivity and independence. After being nationalized by President Nasser in 1960, Al-Ahram became the de facto voice of the Egyptian government and today the newspaper is managed by the Supreme Council of Press.

Al-Ahram has featured writings by some of the most important political and literary voices of the day, including Nobel Literature Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, nationalist leaders Mustafa Kamil and Saad Zaghlul, as well as Salama Moussa, Taha Hussein, Yusuf Idris, Edward Said, Hamid Dabashi, and Anis Mansour.

Text from the Eastview platform.

British Standards Online (BSOL) is available on and off campus to members of the University of Cambridge via the link in the Databases A-Z.

BSOL includes all British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards. It also includes ASTM, ISO and IEC standards that haven’t been adopted as British standards. BSOL also holds BSI Publicly Available Specifications, as well as BSI books.

Crafted meticulously by seasoned industry experts, standards represent the pinnacle of organizational best practices.

These aren’t just arbitrary guidelines; they are thoroughly vetted and detailed criteria. When implemented, they serve as robust rules, clear guidelines, or precise definitions that businesses can lean on to ensure operational excellence.

British Standards Online have introduced a new security feature for downloading PDF documents from their platform for reading offline or if you want to read them on another device. You will need to install and use the FileOpen plugin to download documents from British Standards Online

 Tip: If you are having difficulty openning pdf documents in Chrome you may need to change your browser settings to fix this.

To do this go to:  Settings / Privacy and Security / Site Settings / Additional content settings / PDF documents / Change default behavior from “Open PDFs in Chrome” to “Download PDFs

BSI’s Digital Rights Management guide can be downloaded from the BSI pages and their FAQs give further information

University of Cambridge members have access to the Publishers Weekly digital archive from 1872 to 2023.

Continuously published since 1872, Publishers Weekly has consistently been the authoritative voice for US publishing industry news and book reviews, with ongoing coverage of the British book trade. The complete archive includes up to 400,000 book reviews, 5,000 author profiles/interviews, and bestseller lists from 1895 forward.

This primary source archive contains every page of Publishers Weekly published for nearly 150 years, all in its original context, in full color, and fully searchable to support lines of inquiry into print media and digital culture, American studies, popular culture, history of the book, literature, history, humanities, and their many sub-disciplines.

This collection contains 7,651 issues comprising 661,650 pages.

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

Text taken from the Eastview platform.

 

From 1 July 2024 the OECD iLibrary is moving to open access and making all its publications freely available to everyone to read and download. “Subscription” access to OECD iLibrary will end on 30 June 2024.

OECD explains:

Publications published from 1 July 2024 onward will be available by default via CC-BY, the most permissive Creative Commons license, enabling users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given. This license allows for commercial use. However, there may be exceptions for certain types of content and this will be clearly indicated. The terms and conditions for use of OECD publications published before 1 July 2024 will be adjusted to reflect OECD’s open access policy. The new terms and conditions will be made available as of 1 July 2024, at https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions (the “OECD terms and conditions”).

From July 1 2024 to 31 December 2024 the Cambridge University Libraries A-Z will retain the link https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org as this site is to be retained while OECD develops and redesigns the site https://www.oecd.org/ for publications and data.

OECD notes:

The new website requires some re-organisation of the content. As a result, book chapters, graphs and tables will no longer have their own dedicated pages (which is currently the case on OECD iLibrary), but will remain accessible as part of the original book. Similarly, we are streamlining the number of formats available. As a result, EPUB and READ will be discontinued.

Cambridge University Libraries provides access to the International Energy Statistics (IEA) data on the IEA website here. Please see this post for more information.

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University members now have access to Al-Mandumah databases for Arabic resources, including full-text content of Arabic scientific conferences, dissertations and academic journals from 1921 to present day. Most of the content available is in the Arts and Humanities covering topics such as religion, history, literature, and more.

Al-Mandumah consists of six full-text databases:

EduSearch – contains Arabic journals and conference research papers and seminars for education and social research with coverage period starting in 1928.

HumanIndex – contains Arabic journals and conference proceedings specialised in humanities, published from 1936 onwards.

IslamicInfo – database specialised in Islamic and legal studies.

AraBase – contains journals, conferences and seminars specialised in Arabic language science, literature and linguistics, published from 1921 onwards.

EcoLink – database specialised in economics and management studies.

Mandumah Dissertations – contains theses and dissertations from Arab researchers and students in various academic disciplines.

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

After graduation students at the University of Cambridge will have to access eresources remotely via the Alumni Office using their Alumni accounts. Remote access via iDiscover/Raven is available to current staff and students. Access to eresources via iDiscover is available on campus at the University Library.

The platforms you will have access to include:

• Adam Matthew Digital
• Cambridge Core
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• ProQuest – The New York Times
• Sage Journals and Sage Research Methods

The Troubleshooting Guide on the Alumni Office site includes information on what you should do if you see the error message ‘Raven – incorrect user type’:

“This can occur when you have recently moved from a ‘student’ Raven account, to an alumni one. To fix the problem, you need to completely clear your web browser history, cookies and caches. Then close your browser, and try again.”

Cambridge University Libraries now provides access to International Energy Agency (IEA) Statistics

Access International Energy Agency (IEA) Statistics here, or or via the Cambridge University Libraries E-resources A-Z. Then follow the steps:

Please select ‘World Energy Statistics‘ from the list ‘The package includes the following data services’ (located in the ‘Overview‘ section).

Click on ‘Access on WDS’ (shown in highlighted bar)

‘Consistent, accurate and timely energy data and statistics are fundamental to developing effective and efficient national energy policies, as well as a key element in longer-term planning for investment in the energy sector. To this end, the IEA provides the world’s most authoritative and comprehensive source of global energy data.

The IEA collects, assesses and disseminates energy statistics on supply and demand, compiled into energy balances in addition to a number of other key energy-related indicators, including energy prices, public RD&D and measures of energy efficiency, with other measures in development.

This emphasis on sound data provides a unique platform for modelling work and tracking both short-term shifts and long-term trends in countries’ energy transitions, particularly for clean energy.’

Text from IEA platform. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/about

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Cambridge University members now have trial access to Al Manhal eLibrary, a full-text database of scholarly and scientific publications from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The trial will be active until 31 July 2024.

Please tell us what you think about this resource using our feedback form.

The Al-Manhal database provides access to thousands of journals, ebooks, theses and dissertations and reports from and about the Middle East.

Subject Coverage :

Art • Art and Architecture • Business & Economics • Contemporary References • Classical Literature • Educational Science • History, Geography & Biography • Islamic Heritage • Islamic Studies • Language & Literature • Law • Media and Communication • Political Science & International Relations • Science and Technology • Social Sciences

Key features :

• Full-text searchable publications

• Languages: Arabic, English, French, and others.

• Personal bookshelves that can be accessed offline through the App (IOS & Android)

• Highlighting, bookmarking, annotating and text-to-speech

• Copy/paste and printing with automatic citations

Journals Collection

Al-Manhal Journals collections include an exclusive selection of over 450 peer-reviewed journals with over 70,000 articles in English and Arabic languages published in the Arab world.

eBooks Collection

Al-Manhal offers over 19,000 ebooks from the Arab world’s leading publishers, across a diverse range of topics, with more being added every week.

Theses and Dissertations Collection

Provides over 9,000 of full-text searchable theses and dissertations from the most prominent academic foundations across the Middle East. This collection is comprised of scholarly work from masters’ and doctoral graduates from all departments of academia and across the full spectrum of research foci.

Reports Collection

This includes a wide range of publications from 2007 onward that includes working papers, research reports, essays, policy briefs, newspaper articles, case studies and conference proceedings from the leading think tanks and research institutes across the Middle East.

Please note we already have two owned Arabic language ebooks from this collection.

With thanks to the ebooks team for their original post on Al Manhal.

The Vogue Archive from ProQuest provides access to the U.S. version of Vogue from 1892 to present for members of the University of Cambridge.

“The Vogue Archive contains the backfile of Vogue magazine (US edition), spanning the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.* Issues are scanned from cover to cover, with article/page feature pages, advertisements, covers and fold-outs included, with rich indexing enabling users to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

“In addition to the editorial content, all covers, advertisements and pictorial features have been captured as separate documents to allow for searching and discovery. For advertisements, the featured company and brand names have been assigned to the document records, and all image captions are captured to a high accuracy, allowing accurate retrieval of photographs and illustrations. Contributor names that appear in image credits, such as photographers, stylists and illustrators, are also indexed. You can also limit your search by journal editor, to find items published during the editorship of, say, Diana Vreeland (1963-71) or Anna Wintour (1988-present).”

Fashion: Graduation Gowns (1902) Features: Seen in the Shops (1913) Fashion: For Graduation or Class Day (1940)

Image one is taken from ‘Fashion: Graduation Gowns‘ Vogue ; New York Vol. 19, Iss. 19, (May 8, 1902): 487.
“Graduation gown of white silk batiste over white taffeta.”

Image two is taken from ‘Features: Seen in the Shops‘ Vogue ; New York Vol. 41, Iss. 10, (May 15, 1913): 48, 49.
“The [graduation] dress must be white, but it may be in one of many materials, among which French crepe is very popular this season.”

Image three is taken from ‘Fashion: For Graduation or Class Day‘ Vogue ; New York Vol. 95, Iss. 11, (Jun 1, 1940): 96, 97.
“One slim way for graduation – this rayon jersey dress; an unpressed-pleated skirt. Later wear it to dinner”

The Victoria and Albert Museum take a look at the underwear that would have been worn in the Victorian era, called ‘Corsets, crinolines and bustles: fashionable Victorian underwear‘.

 

Cambridge University members have access to Naxos Music Library (NML), the world’s largest online classical music library.

NML offers streaming access to nearly 3 million tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 600 new titles are added to the library each month.

The contents can be browsed by composer, artist, genre, category and label. In addition to listening to recordings, NML provides liner notes for many albums. Listeners can create personalized playlists or enjoy predefined NML playlists, such as this one for relaxation and contemplation.

Additional NML resources include –

• Over 900 aural training exercises
• Guided tours on classical music eras
• Audio book transcriptions about the history of classical music and opera
• Libretti and synopses of over 700 operas
• A guide on composer and artist names as well as musical terms
• In-depth analyses of selected works
• Podcasts
• Interactive music dictionary with music examples and notation

Also available via the Cambridge Databases A-Z

Please remember to log out from Naxos Music Library once you have finished your session.

Our database highlight this week is an the Very Short Introductions ebook collection, courtesy of the ebooks@cambridge blog.

Take a look at their blog post:

Oxford University Press – Very Short Introductions ebook collection