This year’s Cambridge Asian Librarian Advisory Board [CALAB] meeting was kindly hosted by Dr Jomkwan Polparsi, librarian at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce [UTCC].…
We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University Press has been selected to join the APUC Framework as a trusted supplier to academic institutions in Scotland.…
Cambridge University Press founded its first librarian advisory board in spring 2004. The board members were mainly UK academic librarians, with a sprinkling of librarians from European countries who were attending the UKSG Conference, which that year took place in Manchester. …
The Cambridge Australia and New Zealand Librarian Advisory Board [ANZLAB] was founded in 2017 and held its first (and only, to date) face-to-face meeting in 2018.…
Turkish Library Director talks about working in partnership with Cambridge to support education in Turkey, and the value of libraries and librarians in driving forward academic institutions As the world shakes off COVID-19, supporting education institutions around the world remains a priority for Cambridge.…
The Cambridge South Asian Board was set up in 2017. It is one of the larger regional Cambridge librarian advisory boards and currently has 23 members, 22 of whom represent Indian institutions, with one member from Bangladesh. …
An interview with Sarah Thompson, Head of Content and Open Research, University of York Library The first Cambridge University Press Librarian Advisory Board meeting took place in 2004 prior to the UKSG Conference, which that year was held at the University of Manchester.…
In the past 12 months, hundreds of you have read, shared, and tweeted our Cambridge Histories collection, and we published a total of 9 titles between July 2020 and today.…
We spoke with Dave Puplett, Head of Library Services at the University of Greenwich, whose remit has extended to cover the University’s Academic Teaching Enhancement team.…
The three-day event drew global attention and pushed conversations on academic publishing to a larger scale. Find out what you may have missed from Cambridge.…
Annika Nilsson, University of Lund Librarian This past year in Academic publishing has seen a rising need for a change in attitude to accessibility, both from a student’s perspective but also from that of their institutions.…
After months of remote learning for students globally, universities across the world are beginning a new method of teaching for the upcoming academic year.…
After months of remote learning for students globally, universities across the world are beginning a new method of teaching for the upcoming academic year.…
Molly Keener is the Director of Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, a private university situated in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.…
Last month, Homerton College Library at the University of Cambridge reopened their doors after six months of being closed due to the pandemic.…
India is a country that has many distinguished schools devoted entirely to management studies. In the early 2000s it became evident that these schools needed a conference devoted entirely to their own activities. …
In August, Higher Education from Cambridge University Press fully launched offering high-quality textbooks and learning resources with key functionality for institutions across the globe.…
In the past ten years, there have been major developments in technology that have transformed the way libraries operate. With the rise of e-publishing, libraries have had to adapt to remain functional and useful to students, researchers and staff.…
The ninth Cambridge Asia Librarians’ Day was held on 9th January. It was kindly hosted by the National University of Singapore [NUS]. …
The upcoming year sees exciting change for Cambridge University Press’s journals line-up. In this blog post is a preview of brand new launch titles, titles that are switching to a fully Open Access model, and changes to how the Journal of Fluid Mechanics is published.…
An interview with Professor Katsunori Iino, Library Specialist, the University of Bukkyo, Japan Q: You have an unusual job title, at least to Western eyes.…
About COUNTER COUNTER provides a code of practice for reporting on the usage of electronic resources in a consistent way. This code of practice allows libraries to make purchasing decisions based on user activity and ensure budgets are spent appropriately.…
Cambridge University Press has agreed to an Open Access publishing deal with the University of California. This transformative agreement will advance the global shift towards an open access future for research.…
Mrs Lee Cheng Ean has been the University Librarian at the National University of Singapore, which is ranked 11th in the QS World University Rankings (2019), for more than four years. …
Dr Gernot Deinzer says the best way he can describe himself is as an “information professional”. His professional roles include acting as subject librarian for Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at the University of Regensburg in Germany and also heading up the IT services for the Library itself. …
Senior Library Sales Manager Stephanie Kaelin participated in a panel at the 2018 ER&L meeting in Austin, Texas, entitled “Publisher Platforms and NISO’s PIE-J: Working together to improve e-journal access”.…
En esta ocasión tenemos 2×1 de entrevista. Nuestras preguntas las respondieron un par de bibliotecarios Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, en la ciudad de Querétaro, ubicada a 218 kilómetros al noroeste de la capital mexicana.…
[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.]…
Concetta La Spada joined Cambridge University Press in September 2015 as a Library Data Analyst. Prior to working at the Press she worked as a cataloguer at Baker and Taylor, and previously at a similar role with Blackwell.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
To celebrate Cambridge Core’s first birthday, we have launched, Librarian Perspectives, a series of interviews with librarians from around the world.…
Cambridge Core, the combined ebook and journal platform, launched in September 2016. The site was informed by extensive market research and feedback from our users including over 9,000 researchers and librarians.…
Stockholm University is among the world’s top 100 HEIs. 70,000 students, 1,800 doctoral students and 5,000 staff work within the full spectrum of disciplines.…
Many iconic ruins across the world are all that remains of the libraries of the past. Who built these libraries? Who created the first ‘public library’?…
The Amazon Kindle first became officially available in the UK in Autumn 2009. The device on offer was the second generation model, with white case and keyboard.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
Once upon a time in Paphos, so tells Plutarch (Mor. 340d), Alexander the Great decided that the reigning king was unjust and wicked, and removed him from his throne.…
Encountering a counter question “When we think of international law, which city do we imagine?” “Rome?” “Osnabrück?” “Versailles?” “Paris?” “The Hague?”…
This year, Mona Suleiman, who is doing her PhD at the University of Bath, was the winner of the award. The competition this year was high, but Mona’s presentation stood out for the fundamental impacts of her research that were explained in a very comprehensible way.
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
International law is in turmoil, and under challenge. It has been likewise for centuries, but particularly since 24 February this year.…
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