About
Frequently Asked Questions
For Librarians & Subscribers
The Pandemic resulted in a rapid move to online, this coupled with further digital innovations has meant traffic on Cambridge Core has continued to increase year on year. This change in behavior is also illustrated by declining print orders which makes the print option unsustainable.
As a Press we are committed to reducing our carbon emissions and our printing and distribution components contribute the most negatively to our overall impact on the environment. Therefore, we are making changes, where appropriate across our portfolio.
Your institution’s access will continue in accordance with its agreement with Cambridge and will not be interrupted.
As the print & online subscription will no longer be available, you will receive a renewal notice for the online-only product for 2024. It is likely that the online-only subscription will be a lower price than you will have paid for a print & online subscription in the current year.
You will not lose access to any content that you have subscribed to online. When you purchase a current subscription at Cambridge, you will have access to that content online in perpetuity.
Readers can access content onsite, via IP recognition, or offsite, via Shibboleth or Open Athens. Visit our help page for more information and instructions on how to do this.
The move to online-only may result in a reduction on your 2025 subscription price, if your institution had been on a print-only or a bundle subscription.
If you already had an online-only subscription for 2024, you will see no price rise for 2025.
No. The final issue of 2024 will be the final print issue produced. When the journal moves online-only, print copies will no longer be produced.
No, the focus of moving to online-only is to ensure readers receive all of the content produced by the journal and allow them the ability to interact with the articles and the data where possible. This is to ensure they get the most of their experience from the journal by providing a complete product.
We are also committed to reducing our energy-related emissions to zero-carbon globally by 2048 and we will be removing POD for online-only journals.
Communications will be sent to librarians and agents with the 2025 price list which is sent in early July 2024.
Authors and researchers who receive alerts will receive communication via email and social media from September 2024.
Subscribing via a Subscription Agency
Please contact your subscription agent directly to cancel your subscription.
Institutional / individual subscribers
If you or your institution subscribes directly with Cambridge, please contact our Customer Services team.
The Americas
subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org
+1 845 353 7500
United Kingdom and Rest of World
journals@cambridge.org
+44 (0)1223 326070
If you or your institution subscribes directly with Cambridge, please contact our Customer Services team.
The Americas
subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org
+1 845 353 7500
United Kingdom and Rest of World
journals@cambridge.org
+44 (0)1223 326070
Access full instructions on how you can create and set up your organisation's account.
Once logged in to Cambridge Core, select “My content”. In the “Activate journal subscription” field, enter your 10 digit subscription number and click 'Activate'. For full details visit our Core help section on accessing content.
We will be honouring any existing agreements where DDP has been offered for the duration of the contract. However, any new agreements from 2023 onwards will no longer offer DDP and it will not continue for individual journals that convert to e-only in a given year.
Readers
If you are accessing content via your institution's subscription this can via IP recognition on campus or via Athens and Shibbolethoffsite. However, we recommend speaking to your librarian. For full instructions on accessing content please visit our Core help pages.
Authors
The journal moving to online-only will also allow readers to access any data, videos or blog posts related to your article.
It will also provide you with a fuller picture of the usage of your article as well as other metrics e.g. Altmetric and citations. These can be found on your article page under ‘Metrics’.
You will not be able to order an offprint of your article. However, you will receive a link to your article online and by using Core Share functionality you will be able to share your article with your colleagues.
Publishing Partners
This will be dependent on the nature of the financial arrangement between Cambridge and the Society. Please get in touch with your Editorial contact to discuss the detail around your journal, or if you would like to consider moving your journal to online-only for 2026.
Please note that decisions to move society-owned journals to online-only are always made in collaboration with our society partners, during which financial implications will have been reviewed.
We will be communicating with all affected stakeholders affected via email, listservs and social media. Should you have any concerns or require any support material please contact your Cambridge editor.
The content is and will always be preserved in perpetuity online by Core. In the very unlikely event that something would happen to our platform, all content is archived by both CLOCKSS , Portico (and by extension the copyright libraries in UK, Ireland) and by the US Library of Congress .
When the journal moves online-only, print copies will no longer be produced and we do not offer print-on-demand for online-only journals.
Members
There are a number of ways your society may have to access the content online:
Via your society membership portal
Your society may offer access via their membership portal. This will mean you have to log in to your society's site and navigate to Core via a URL.
Single Sign-on (SSO)
If your society uses SSO you can log in to Cambridge Core using your society details. Simply select your society from the drop-down section on the Core login.
Via an access code
You may receive an email from Cambridge Core with a Society ID and membership number.
Simply log in to Cambridge Core, select “My societies”. Under the heading “Activate society membership”, enter the Society ID and membership number into the relevant boxes and click Submit.
If you do not know what method is used please contact your society membership team for full instructions.
You can cancel the print component by contacting your Society membership team.
Editorial Board Members
When the journal moves online-only, print copies will no longer be produced. You will have online access to the journal via a Cambridge Core account. If you do not have a Cambridge Core account or you are experiencing any difficulties accessing the journal, please contact JournalsEditorialCoordinators@cambridge.org .