Access to CAMIO database to end December 2018

OCLC will discontinue access to the CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) database for WorldCat Local and FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscribers on 31 December 2018. The expansion of online access to this type of content in recent years has increased researchers’ access to images in art museums, replacing the need for a discrete database such as CAMIO.

Access to CAMIO through a custom interface has been included in FirstSearch and FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscriptions for several years. CAMIO access has also been configurable in OCLC Service Configuration for searching from WorldCat Local and WorldCat Discovery.

 When CAMIO access ends, metadata for materials in CAMIO will be removed from the WorldCat database and will no longer be searchable via the OCLC services WorldCat.org, WorldCat Discovery, or WorldCat Local.  However, some images may continue to be discoverable in WorldCat if their metadata has been added to the database via CONTENTdm or the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.

When CAMIO access is removed, the database name will no longer display to users in the WorldCat Local or WorldCat Discovery interfaces.

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Diabetes technology & therapeutics

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Diabetes technology & therapeutics

From the Mary Ann Liebert  website for the journal:

“The only peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of diagnosing and managing diabetes with cutting-edge devices, drugs, drug delivery systems, and software.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 15 (2013) to present.

Access Diabetes technology & therapeutics via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

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North American Journal of Celtic Studies

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : North American Journal of Celtic Studies

From the Ohio State University Press website for the journal:

“The North American journal of Celtic studies is the official journal of the Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA). Founded in 1976, CSANA fosters research in all aspects of Celtic studies – including literature, language, history, law, folklore, art, and archeology. Unlike other journals of Celtic studies, NAJCS provides a forum for publication across all disciplines and all time periods that bear upon Celtic studies. “

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2017) to present.

Access North American Journal of Celtic Studies via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

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IKON : Journal of Iconographic Studies

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : IKON : Journal of Iconographic Studies

From the Center for Iconographic Studies website for the journal:

“IKON is an annual publication published by the Center of Iconographic Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka.

“IKON promotes a wide range of contents and themes of iconographicstudies, focusing on the role and function of “image” within the period and place of its origin as well as its contemporary reception and discernment. The journal seeks to present different perspectives in understanding and interpreting images incorporating cross-disciplinary studies and recent results in other complementary disciplines.

“The languages of the Journal are English, Italian and French with Croatian and English summary (in case the article is submitted in other languages than English). Each article is double- blind reviewed according to the strict reviewing procedure.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 2 (2009) to present. Our access will be for the current year with 9 years of rolling archive access.

Access IKON : Journal of Iconographic Studies via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

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Canadian Journal of Chemistry

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Canadian Journal of Chemistry 

From the NRC Research Press website for the journal:

“Published since 1929, this monthly journal reports current research findings in all branches of chemistry. It includes the traditional areas of analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical-theoretical chemistry and newer interdisciplinary areas such as materials science, spectroscopy, chemical physics, and biological, medicinal and environmental chemistry as well as research in chemistry education.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 76 (1998) to present. Volume 29 (1951) to volume 75 (1997) are available as Open Access.

Access Canadian Journal of Chemistry via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

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Digital humanities: Text mining using Gale Digital Scholar Lab

The University Library has acquired digital archives from Gale Cengage, a publisher of large primary source materials, including historical documents and newspapers.   These digital archives are now available within a new resource called the “Gale Digital Scholar Lab” which has been specifically designed for the purpose of enabling text-mining and analysis.

Using the Lab you can search the archives as you would on their native platforms and build content sets from these search results.   You can make multiple content sets and analyse the corpus that you amass using the tools provided in the Lab.  The tools available in the Lab now are all Open Source (and it is the ambition of the publisher that these will be expanded on over time): Topic Modelling (Mallet); Frequencies (Lucene); Clustering (SciKit Learn); Parts-of-Speech Tagger (spaCy); Sentiment Analysis (OpenNLP); Named Entity Recognition (spaCy); Ngrams (Lucene).

The Lab promises to open up new possibilities for the relative newcomer to digital scholarship in this area, allowing natural language processing tools to be applied to raw text data (OCR), facilitating new discoveries and insights.  The Lab makes much of visualization of results and data and thus lends itself to scholarly sharing and “bridging the gap between scholarly resources and faculty researchers/students”. The Lab facilitates organisation of content sets, including renaming, duplicating and versioning as well as identifying the searches used to create the content set, which makes sharing and reproducing research projects easier than is usually the case.   Archives included in the Lab to which Cambridge has access for analysis are:

17^th and 18^th century Burney collection

19^th century UK periodicals

British Library newspapers

Economist historical archive, 1843-2014

Eighteenth century collections online

Illustrated London News historical archive, 1842-2003

Making of modern law: legal treatises, 1800-1926

Nineteenth century U.S. newspapers

Times digital archive

Times literary supplement historical archive

U.S. declassified documents online

 

The access to the Lab is on a trial basis to help Cambridge assess its usefulness to the practitioner and to encourage and promote the resource to digital humanities scholarship in Cambridge generally.   Access is available now from the details below, up to 31 December 2018.

Please contact ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk to obtain the username and password.   The username and password will be supplied to the enquirer by return email.

http://galesupport.com/international/trialsite

 When you first login you will be requested to create a user account using your Google account or your Microsoft account.  We recommend that you use the Microsoft account option which connects through to your institutional account via the University of Cambridge login page.

Due to the nature of the access as trial only, restrictions are in place around export of documents.

Feedback on the trial is welcomed.  You may prefer to ask that it is sent to your library’s email address or you can use the ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk in any communication you do and we will collect what we receive for onward sharing in 2019.

Journal of Scottish Philosophy

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Journal of Scottish Philosophy

From the Edinburgh University Press website for the journal:

“The Journal of Scottish Philosophy (JSP) publishes innovative work by philosophers and historians of ideas on all aspects and every period of the Scottish philosophical tradition – philosophical psychology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics and moral philosophy, political and social theory, from the late scholastics of the 15th century through the 18th century Enlightenment philosophers to the Scottish Idealists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has a special interest in the writings of Thomas Reid, and in the influence and impact of Scottish philosophy on the foundations of theology and education in North America.

“The journal is international in scope. Its referees are drawn from experts across the world, and it regularly includes contributions from philosophers and scholars in Britain, continental Europe, Canada, the United States, Japan and South America. In addition to the publication of substantial articles, the Reviews Section provides critical notices of both important new monographs and new editions of the works of major Scottish philosophers.”

“Published by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, one of three research centres based at Princeton Theological Seminary.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2003) to present.

Access Journal of Scottish Philosophy via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Image credit: “October Phtotograph David Hume Statue Edinburgh Scotland” by Sandy Stevenson on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/8CRHcR

Journal of Professional Capital and Community

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Journal of Professional Capital and Community

From the Emerald website for the journal:

“The Journal of Professional Capital and Community is an international, professionally refereed, scholarly journal, reflecting the most important ideas and evidence of the nature and impact of interactions and relationships in the education profession, especially in the school sector.

“For the first time, in one single place of scholarly research and inquiry, this journal brings together the most influential leading thinkers and emerging scholars on professional cultures, communities and collegiality and how they all contribute to or impede the development of the professional capital in schools and school systems that enhances students’ learning, wellbeing, achievement and engagement.

“The journal raises and addresses issues like individualism and collaboration in teaching, the processes involved in building professional cultures and communities, leadership and team building, coaching and mentoring, collective responsibility and evidence-based transparency. The journal addresses how collaboration evolves over time, how it can become sustainable, what its impact can be on quality of teaching and student outcomes, how it produces and also depends on dynamics of risk and trust, and what relationships it has to other aspects of educational reform and improvement such as school competition, assessment and accountability and curriculum standards.

“The Journal of Professional Capital and Community looks at how professional culture and community and the ways to invest in and build professional capital vary across continents, countries and cultures. The journal identifies the positive aspects of professional interactions and relationships but also raises critical questions about how professional culture can be manipulated, how professional collaboration can be restricted and misused, and how collegiality can become constrained or contrived.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2016) to present.

Access Journal of Professional Capital and Community via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

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Trial access: New digital collections from the National Library of China Publishing House

The National Library of China Publisher House has made the following three new digital collections available to Cambridge on trial access until 10 December 2018:

Early Twentieth Century Book in China, 1912-1949

The Republic of China Era (1912-1949) is an important and special transformation period in China history, new thoughts and old thoughts were integrated, while Chinese and western cultures were exchanged, which had brought a special cultural landscape. It is also the beginning of modern Chinese science. After the eastward transmission of western sciences and the fusion of Chinese and western cultures in the Republic of China Era, a lot of great scholars appeared, and had brought profound impact to Chinese science and thoughts for later ages. The Republican Era documents were overlooked in the past, papers were seriously damaged and the protecting situation is some worrying. Therefore, in view of the historical and academic values of the Republican Era documents as well as the document protection condition, it is necessary to develop an online collection for the books published in the Republican Era.

Early Twentieth Century Book in China, 1912-1949 ( Historical Books in the Republic of China Era) contains over 180,000 titles, 30 million pages and 10 billion letters (also includes 1,534 titles published in 1900-1911). It will be updated to 200,000 titles in 2020.

Access the trial here:

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=http://mg.nlcpress.com

 

China Rare Book Reprinted Collection

China Rare Books Reprint Project is an important cultural project initiated by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance, after their long time and deep investigation and research, summing up the experience and lessons from the history on books missing, and considering about the current storage of rare books, to ensure the inheritance of the precious books, and provide the convenience use to the rare books to the academic world, thereby to exalt the splendid traditional culture.

In this project, catalogue selection is directed by Li Zhizhong, Fang Guangchang, Shi Jinbo, Bai Huawen, Feng Qiyong and other ancient book experts. Over 1,300 titles of rare books in the best condition and best edition have been selected from the unique copies and rare editions collected by more than 50 libraries including National Library of China, Shanghai Library, Peking University Library and British Library, etc., and have been reprinted by using the original format, photographic platemaking and simulating print. There are five volumes in the collection covering from Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) to Qing Dynasty (1636-1912): Tang Song Volume, Jin Yuan Volume, Ming Dynasty Volume, Qing Dynasty Volume and Chinese Minority Script Ancient Book Volume.

Access the trial here:

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=http://z.nlcpress.com

 

China Historical Biography Resources

The materials of Chinese historical people are really very rich. Besides standardized biographies such as general biography, supplementary biography (including chronicle) and non-official biographies, there are also a lot of historical materials in official history, privately compiled history, local chronicles, genealogy, tabulation pamphlets, epigraph, catalogues and the documents in literature collection. Biographical resources are scattered among many kinds of resources which are hard to search, therefore, National Library of China Publishing House has published this database cooperating with the Data and Analysis Center of Peking University combining with the advantages of the two parties. The product has been listed as an important achievement in the first group of digital publishing transformation and upgrade project in China.

Access the trial here:

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=http://p.nlcpress.com

Please send feedback to: ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk. Thank you.

Trial access: Enzymes Online

Enzymes Online is a database published by De Gruyter that covers topics relating to the function, analysis, and application of enzymes.   The content is selected from journals and books published by De Gruyter in the areas of biology, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and engineering.

Currently the database includes about 1,300 articles.   De Gruyter describes the database as a “specially-tailored compilation on enzymes from all relevant disciplines including biology, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and engineering”.

Enzymes Online has been selected for trial access and this available now until 15 December 2018 via the following link:

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/db/enzo

Please send your feedback to: ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk.   Thank you.