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James Caudwell February 16th, 2012

The University has arranged trial access from 9 February to 9 March 2012 inclusive to Ethnographic video online and Anthropology online.  Combined in Alexander Street Anthropology these resources provide anthropologists, sociologists and cultural historians with an expansive and multifaceted survey of the discipline.

Thematic areas include: family and race, material culture, language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, marriage, gender, and family roles.

Of special interest will be the video content in Ethnographic video online and the range of features that can be used with the video for teaching and research including searchable, synchronized transcripts, and the ability to create synchronized annotations and multi-media presentations.

To access the trial visit the URL: http://anthtrial.alexanderstreet.com

Currently the trial is only available on campus.  We expect the trial  databases to be available off campus via Shibboleth sign-on very shortly.  To reach the Shibboleth login pages first perform a search in the search box at the top right of the database home page.

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James Caudwell February 15th, 2012

The Handbook of chemistry and physics, 92nd ed. (2011-2012) from CRC Press is now available online.  First published in 1914, this is an authoritative reference work in its field.

Presently off campus access is not available via the licensor, Taylor & Francis.  We are working with T&F on enabling off campus access in the near future.

To access the Handbook on campus visit the link on the eresources@cambridge A-Z list at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/fulllist.php?search_term=H.

Alternatively go directly to the resource (within the Cam domain only) via the URL: http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/.

Tags: Chemistry, ebooks, Engineering, Physics, reference works

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James Caudwell February 10th, 2012

Sites and Photos has contributed more than 29,000 additional photos of ancient through medieval archaeological and architectural sites from France, Greece, Israel, Italy, and Turkey to the ARTstor Digital Library. The images provide broad and in-depth documentation of the ancient world, including Classical, Megalithic, Islamic, Crusader, and Gothic archaeology and architecture, as well as Greek and Roman painting, sculpture, mosaics, and decorative arts. The collection is especially strong in its coverage of religious and Biblical sites in Israel, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, and Cyprus.

Samuel Magal, Owner and Chief Photographer, is a trained archaeologist specializing in Classical and Marine archaeology. Since 1999, he has photographed hundreds of sites and museums throughout the Mediterranean.

View the collection: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/sitesandphotos

An ARTstor training event in the Research Skills Programme will be given on 9 March, 2012 at 10:00-11:30 am in the Morison Room, Cambridge University Library.  To book a place please visit: http://training.cam.ac.uk/cul/event/350402

Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, ArtSTOR, Digital images

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James Caudwell February 10th, 2012

Trial access has been arranged for 9 February to 9 March 2012 to the American Civil War databases from Alexander Street Press.   The databases are available off campus via Shibboleth sign-on.  To reach the Shibboleth login pages first perform a search in the search box at the top right of the database home page.

The American Civil War Research Database

http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/cwdb/

The American Civil War : Letters and Diaries

http://solomon.cwld.alexanderstreet.com/

The American Civil War : Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera

http://cpho.alexanderstreet.com/

Feedback on the trial should be sent to Libby Tilley by email (eat21@cam.ac.uk)

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James Caudwell February 10th, 2012

The University Library is pleased to announce that thanks to the generosity of the Faculty of History access is now available to the Congressional Record : Permanent Digital Collection “Predecessors” 1789-1997.

The Congressional Record is the public account of all legislative debate in the United States Congress and as such is a unique source of American public documentation. It contains a substantially verbatim account of all discussion and decisions of Congress on nearly all the major and minor policies and concerns of the day and is a key primary source in the study of American social, political, economic, and foreign policies. The Record also contains inserted materials, communications from the president and the executive branch agencies, memorials, petitions, and information and materials on legislation being introduced or passed. The Record and its predecessors – the Annals of Congress, the Register of Debates and the congressional Globe – span debate for over 200 years in 2,000 volumes and 2,750,000 pages.

The digitized version makes research using the Congressional Record dramatically easier than consultation of the bound volumes, overcoming their size and complexity, indexing variability and pagination variations.

The Congressional Record is available on and off campus via the eresources A-Z listing or via the URL below:

http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp

Tags: History, Legal history, ProQuest, United States

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Ben Davenport February 9th, 2012

The EUscreen project aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe’s rich and diverse cultural history.

EUScreen is the result of a collaboration between 36 partners across Europe and provides over 14,000 items of archived TV footage from 17 European countries. The content dates from the 1920s to the present day and includes rare footage and commentary on many key events in history.

EUScreen represents a particularly valuable resource for anyone working in Social History or Media Studies and may also be of use to those learning or teaching foreign languages.

The archive can be searched by genre, topic, date, language, country of production or broadcaster. By signing up for a free My EUScreen login users can bookmark footage and add comments.

More content will be added later in 2012 bring the content to around 30,000 items. The resource is freely available on the EUScreen portal here http://www.euscreen.eu and from the Eresources Database A-Z list

Tags: EUScreen, Television Archive

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Ben Davenport February 7th, 2012

The University Library are pleased to announce online access to “Blake: an illustrated quarterly”.

Blake is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to William Blake (1757-1827), the British poet, artist and engraver, and his circle. The journal publishes articles, notes and book reviews, as well as two annual features: a review of sales of original works by Blake and his followers and a checklist of publications on Blake.

Online access is available to digitalized issues from 2011 to the present and bonus content including articles, bibliographies and indices from a number of back issues is also made available.

The journal can be accessed from the website http://blake.lib.rochester.edu/blakeojs/index.php/blake on- and off-campus using a Raven log-in and from the ejournals@cambridge A-Z list.

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James Caudwell February 3rd, 2012

The University Library is pleased to announce access is now available by subscription to The Guardian and its sister paper The Observer from the first issues up to 2003. The Guardian started life as The Manchester Guardian in 1821 but changed title to The Guardian in 1959.

The papers are fully cross-searchable with the other newspapers on the ProQuest Historical Newspapers platform, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Times of India. As well as allowing browsing of discrete issues, there are multiple ways to search and across different content types (articles; cartoons, advertisements etc.).

Please use the links on the eresources@cambridge A-Z list or the ejournals@cambridge A-Z gateway to access The Guardian and The Observer on and off campus.

Guardian & Observer on / off campus is available at:

http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/hnpguardianobserver?accountid=9851

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Ben Davenport January 25th, 2012

ebooks@cambridge are pleased to announce that almost 300 of our ebooks available on the MyiLibrary platform are now activated for downloading.

Downloading to popular e-readers is supported, including Sony ereaders, the Barnes & Noble Nook, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. You can keep a downloaded ebook for 3 days, after that period it will automatically disappear from your PC or mobile device. You cannot return a downloaded title early, it will remain checked out to you for 3 days.

Each downloadable ebook can be downloaded by two people simultaneously, the online copy will remain available for online searching and reading as usual.  When all available copies of an ebook are checked out you can place a hold on that title, you will then be emailed when that ebook becomes available for download.

Detailed onscreen help from MyiLibrary is available from the MyiLibrary Download Support pages.

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Ben Davenport January 23rd, 2012

ebooks@cambridge are pleased to announce that trial access is now available to eight important medical e-textbooks on the Elsevier E-Textbooks platform.

Titles include those such as Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology (7th edition), Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine, and Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. Medical students, particularly those on placement, may find these e-textbooks of considerable interest.

Access to the trial is available both on- and off-campus from the following link: http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=https://www.elsevier-etextbooks.com/bookshelf and from the link on the ebooks@cambridge collections web page. From off-campus users will need to use their Raven password.

The Bookshelf feature displays those titles available to read and search in full-text, and users can print from those texts. Users can also register individually on the platform to create a saved space in which notes, bookmarks and highlights can be added.

Trial access is available from Monday 23rd January 2012 to 15 March 2012.

Jayne Kelly and Rhiannon Taylor in the ebooks@cambridge team at the UL would welcome comments on this trial. Please send your feedback to ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk

Tags: ebooks, Elsevier, medicine, Trial resources

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