Screenshot of The Cambridge Campanion to Arabic Philosophy, Chapter 6 (with an error pointing at “Institution login”)

Sometimes an academic specifies that a particular chapter of a book should be read. Some ebook providers make deep-linking to a range of pages (such as a chapter) dead easy. With others I haven’t quite found how to do this in a smoother form, so for A8 – which I am currently working on (checking for existing and potential further ebooks), the link for

Robert Wisnosky, “Avicenna and the Avicennian Tradition,” p. 92-136, in The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosoph

could either be

• http://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA51531500090003606

[that link takes you to the iDiscover record, and there you will have a link to the whole book:

or

• https://cam.userservices.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?operation=resolveService&package_service_id=13036170440003606&institutionId=3606&customerId=3605

[the link in the iDiscover record for the book]

or

https://www-cambridge-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-arabic-philosophy/BB1B390ECB024E88FC807FF471EE80EB

[how the above link “resolves” when you get to this CUP ebook]

Now, all of the aboves links get you to the whole ebook, and with your Raven user name and password, any University of Cambridge member should be able to access the book. Success!

But how about the deep link to chapter 6 in this case?

The link could be

• https://www-cambridge-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-arabic-philosophy/avicenna-and-the-avicennian-tradition/9EF914D6FBF7C8EF3E121B068FAEB00C

[Eagle-eyed or techy peeps will notice that the URL starts with the EZ proxy server!]

However, once you are logged-in and have access, you also have a nifty deep link, as presented as

• • By Robert Wisnovsky
• Edited by Peter Adamson, King’s College London, Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Wisconsin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• DOI: https://doi-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/10.1017/CCOL0521817439.006

That still prompts you for Raven user name and password, but that’s always the case, which ever way you try to access this chapter.

If all fails – and that’s where the idea for this post came from: look out for an “Institutional login” (see screenshot image at the top of this post). Then you just need to find the “University of Cambridge” (whether under all Institutions, or “UK/UK Federation”). I almost always make the mistake of searching for Cambridge, if scrolling a list, under “C”, but all sites I have ever visited in this way list us under “U”, as “University of …”. CUP let’s one search for the institutions, and for “Cambridge”, the list of possible institutions is relatively short.

Finally, if you are using Firefox or Google Chrome browsers you can also use a plug-in/add-on called Lean Library. More info at https://www.libraries.cam.ac.uk/eresources/access-full-text-anywhere, and maybe in my next post.

Hope the above helps!

CG

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