Cambridge Elements information for librarians
Combining the best features of journals and books!
Cambridge Elements are original, concise, authoritative, and peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific research, organised into focused series edited by leading scholars, and providing comprehensive coverage of the key topics in disciplines spanning the arts and sciences.
Elements are:
- Rapidly published and disseminated (14 weeks from accepted manuscript to publication), ensuring the most up-to-date information.
- Authoritative, written by leading scholars and rigorously peer-reviewed.
- Structured in focused series, edited by senior figures in each discipline.
- Short: 20,000-30,000 words (40 to 75 pages).
- Available in online, onscreen, and print versions.
Elements include:
- Analytical surveys on foundational building blocks of the discipline.
- Original, cutting edge insights into frontier topics.
- Masterclasses and advanced tutorials on emerging topics.
- Detailed descriptions of novel technologies or protocols (in Medicine and Engineering).
Benefits to Librarians
A Completely New Format – Offer your patrons an entirely different way to approach research; Elements are concise, incisive and born-digital.
High-Quality Publishing – Elements are written by leading scholars, rigorously peer-reviewed and edited by senior figures in each discipline.
Key Topics across All Disciplines – Elements are being published in all subjects, from philosophy and economics to statistics and engineering, addressing cutting edge research and current debates.
Flexible Purchasing Options – Elements are available to purchase as part of collections – either complete, or in series and subjects – as well as on a pick-and-choose basis. They are also included in all our evidence based acquisition (EBA) agreements and can be purchased via that model.
Metadata – Elements metadata (including KBART, MARC and XML records) conforms to the latest Counter standards and is manually enhanced by our in-house cataloguers, improving discoverability and integration with library management systems.
Cambridge Core – Elements are published on Cambridge Core, with both an ISBN and an ISSN. They benefit from the platform's enhanced discoverability, powerful reporting, unlimited user concurrency, and trust-based Digital Rights Management (DRM).
The reason behind Elements
Pricing
Individual Elements on Cambridge Core:
£90 / $120 / €100 / AU$160
Subject and Series pricing also available. Please contact your usual Cambridge representative or use the contact details for 'Sales' on this page.
Pricing of Elements on Cambridge Core is also available from the books price list on this page. Simply filter on column D 'Product Type'.
Printed Elements are also available – please use the 'Buy the print Element' button on each individual Element title page.