New e-resources: Current Protocols

In the lab physically or virtually, publisher Wiley’s Current Protocols provide Cambridge scientists with their information needs to aid teaching, learning, and discovery.

Cambridge University now has access to all the subjects in the Current Protocols series.

The Current Protocols collection includes over 24,000 step-by-step techniques, procedures, and practical overviews that provide researchers with reliable, efficient methods to ensure reproducible results and pave the way for critical scientific discovery.

With its emphasis on carefully curated, highly edited methods rich in detail, practical advice, and troubleshooting, Current Protocols enables researchers to advance their research with an efficiency of time and resources. The protocols are organized and available by title, spanning the major disciplines in the life sciences.

Current Protocols techniques are important for anyone engaged in scientific research. Students, technicians, and post-docs will find Current Protocols invaluable for their bench work. Lab heads and department chairs will find Current Protocols useful for grant writing and budgeting, and for planning long-term research projects.

Cambridge University now has access to all the current protocols which are in the following subjects: Bioinformatics; Chemical Biology; Cell Biology; Cytometry; Current Protocols: Essential Laboratory Techniques; Food Analytical Chemistry; Human Genetics; Immunology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Molecular Biology; Microbiology; Mouse Biology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology; Protein Science; Toxicology; Stem Cell Biology

These new online resources have been made available through special funding provided by the University to support teaching and learning impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the unavailability of library resources on campus.

A link is provided to the current protocols on the Cambridge University Libraries A-Z of e-resources and to the individual protocol titles and articles in iDiscover.

Chem

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Chem

From the Science Direct website for the journal:

“Chem, a sister journal to Cell, provides a home for seminal and insightful research and showcases how fundamental studies in chemistry and its sub-disciplines may help in finding potential solutions to the global challenges of tomorrow.

“Chem publishes work from across the chemical sciences and at the interfaces between chemistry and other disciplines. On submission, authors are asked to categorize their article into at least one of the following ten Sustainable Development Goals identified by the United Nations:

• Good health and well-being
• Affordable and clean energy
• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action
• Zero hunger
• Sustainable cities and communities
• Responsible consumption and production
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• Life on land
• Life below water”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2016) to present, including Articles in Press.

Access Chem via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

A round up of new eresrouces made available between 3rd to 17th April

As new eresources are made available due to COVID-19 they are being added to the Databases A-Z and promoted by the ejournals and ebooks teams on WordPress blogs (ejournals@cambridge and ebooks@cambridge) and Twitter (@ejournalscamb and @ebookscamb). When records are available in Alma for the new databases and collections they will be activated and be loaded into iDiscover.

The new databases and collections made available and promoted between 3^rd and 17^th April are listed below. Details about trial end dates are included in the blog posts that are linked to each title.

Inter-disciplinary

Artfilms, Bloomsbury ebooks, Textbooks on Cambridge Core, ProQuest Databases (including ProQuest Dissertation and Thesis Databases and ProQuest Video Online), Archive Direct, Project Muse, VitalSource Helps, JSTOR ebooks, SpringerLink textbooks, Brepols Online, Perlego

Arts & Humanities

Architects Journal and Architectural Review (new subscriptions from recommendations), Babelscores, Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection (Drama Online), Maxine Peake as Hamlet (Drama Online), Medici.TV, Littman e-library of Jewish Civilisation, Theology and Religion Online , RIPM North American and Music Periodicals, RIPM Jazz Periodicals, Bloomsbury Fashion Central, Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament

Humanities and Social Sciences

Bristol University Press and Policy Press journals (Business, Economics, Education, Law, International Relations, SPS), Oxford Handbooks – Criminology and Criminal Justice, Encyclopedia of Early Modern History, South Asia Archive

Biological Sciences

Rockefeller University Press journals (Medicine, Life science, Physiology), Thieme Connect Medical Journals , British Small Animal Veterinary Association, SIAM Epidemiology collection, Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Physical Sciences

Oxford Handbooks – Physical Sciences, Lyell Collection (Geological Society Publications), Thieme Connect Chemistry Journals, GeoScience World ebooks collection

Technology

Oxford Handbooks – Business and Management, Harvard Business Publishing Collection on EBSCOhost

For details on sending suggestions regarding new acquisition of ebooks, ejournals or eresources (databases) please see the instructions on the recommendations page.

If a subscribed version of an article is not readily available you may find the ‘Search and Discovery Tools’ pages useful. The browser plug-ins section includes details for Lean Library (which gives access to subscribed articles by reloading publisher platform URLs via Raven as well as searching for an OA copy if a subscribed version is not available) and Open Access browser plug-ins.

We hope you find this digest of recently added ersources useful.

Thieme Connect Chemistry and Medical Journals : access until 30th June 2020

Access to the chemistry and medical journals on the Thieme Connect platform is available until 30th June 2020.

Feedback about this access should be sent via the online feedback form.

Thieme’s E-Journal collection spans over 130 research and review journals in medicine and life science.

Especially designed for the research and information needs of hospitals, universities and research facilities, Thieme Medical E-Journals offers access to all issues and backfiles currently available.

The E-Journals interface is a sophisticated web service presenting graphical tables of contents, abstracts, and full text in html or pdf formats. Abstracts are also available for smart phones and tablets. You will be kept abreast of cutting-edge developments with fast and efficient online delivery and powerful search tools.

Users may register to benefit from a multitude of services including:

• Customized interface
• eFirst and table of contents alerting services
• SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) – alerting you to important results in your field of interest
• RSS feeds

Nature Catalysis

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Nature Catalysis

From the Nature website for the journal:

“Nature Catalysis brings together researchers from across all chemistry and related fields, publishing work on homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, and biocatalysts, incorporating both fundamental and applied studies. We have a particular interest in applied work that advances our knowledge and informs the development of sustainable industries and processes. Nature Catalysis provides coverage of the science and business of catalysis research, creating a unique journal for scientists, engineers and researchers in academia and industry.

“Nature Catalysis publishes work across the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis and biocatalysis including:

• Catalytic synthesis
• Catalytic mechanisms
• Catalyst characterization and monitoring
• Computational and theoretical catalysis
• Nanoparticle catalysis
• Electrocatalysis
• Photocatalysis
• Environmental catalysis
• Asymmetric catalysis
• Organometallic catalysis
• Organocatalysis
• Enzymatic and chemoenzymatic catalysis”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2018) to present.

Access Nature Catalysis via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Image credit: “BASF  catalysts” by BASF – We create chemistry on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/cnhJRN

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Critical Reviews in Toxicology 

From the Taylor & Francis website for the journal:

“Critical Reviews in Toxicology provides up-to-date, objective analyses of topics related to the mechanisms of action, responses, and assessment of health risks due to toxicant exposure.  The journal publishes critical, comprehensive reviews of research findings in toxicology and the application of toxicological information in assessing human health hazards and risks.  Toxicants of concern include commodity and specialty chemicals such as formaldehyde, acrylonitrile, and pesticides; pharmaceutical agents of all types; consumer products such as macronutrients and food additives; environmental agents such as ambient ozone; and occupational exposures such as asbestos and benzene.

“Toxicological responses reviewed range from observations at the molecular and cellular level to physiological and pathological alterations in intact mammals and populations of laboratory animals and people.  Responses in all major organ systems are of interest, with emphasis on those responses identified as human diseases or their precursor events.  Particular attention is given to cancer, reproductive, and developmental effects as responses of particular social concern.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 28 (1998) to present.

Access Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Image credit: “Test tubes” by Hakan Dahlstrom on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/71Ewbs

New e-resource: SpringerMaterials

The University of Cambridge now has access to the SpringerMaterials database via this link:

https://materials.springer.com/

Off campus access is via Shibboleth only.  Please use the “Log in” link top right of the SpringerMaterials home page, then click “Sign in via Shibboleth…”.  Ignore the Athens option and use the Find your institution dropdown/search and select “University of Cambridge ebooks service”.  This will prompt a Raven authentication page for you to sign in using your Raven credentials.   (We expect to offer seamless proxy access via HTTPS in due course.)

SpringerMaterials is a database for identifying material properties, covering data from materials science, physics, physical and inorganic chemistry, engineering and other related fields.  New to the resource is SpringerMaterials Interactive, a set of advanced functionalities for visualizing and analyzing data. Examples of these functionalities include interactive graphs, dynamic data tables, and side-by- side comparisons of materials/properties.

SpringerMaterials supports teaching and learning and research and development in the fields of bulk and fine chemical manufacturing, petroleum and petrochemicals, semiconductors and electronic materials, optical metals, ceramics, polymer synthesis and processing, and materials for fuels and energy application.

The University Library, working closely with the Departments of Chemistry and Engineering and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library, is delighted to provide the SpringerMaterials database after a trial and feedback in the first quarter of 2017 demonstrated its value to the science community in Cambridge.  An FAQ on SpringerMaterials is available here

Nature Reviews Chemistry

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Nature Reviews Chemistry.

From the Nature website for the journal:

“Nature Reviews Chemistry is an online-only journal for the weekly publication of Reviews, Perspectives and Comments in all disciplines within chemistry…

“Our Reviews aim to be balanced and objective analyses of the selected topic – with descriptions of relevant scientific literature and discussions that are easy to grasp for recent graduates in any chemistry-related discipline, as well as informing principal investigators and industry-based research scientists of the latest advances. Reviews should provide the authors’ insight into future directions and their opinion of the major challenges faced by researchers in the field.

“Perspectives – as the name suggests – take a look at a topic from a slightly different angle. They may offer more personal viewpoints, explain the historical background to a topic, or discuss some of the social, ethical or environmental factors related to chemistry research in academia and industry.

“Our Comments address topical issues in chemistry — the aim is to cover subjects that are of interest to chemists generally that are not necessarily focussed on the results or practice of chemistry research. This may include, but is not limited to, discussions of education in chemistry and the practicalities of research outside the academic environment.”

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

Access Nature Reviews Chemistry via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Image credit: “Chemistry” by Becky Johns on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/7P2u91

Off campus access enabled for British Standards Online (BSOL)

Access to British Standards Online is now enabled for off campus users via this link.

Both the on and off campus links are available from the Cambridge LibGuides Databases A-Z here.

Records for standards in BSOL will soon be discoverable in iDiscover.   Access via iDiscover will only be available for on campus users (as we cannot at the moment build the off campus link into the iDiscover records).

The University of Cambridge started providing access to British Standards Online from December 2017.  Unfortunately it was not possible to provide both on and off campus access at the time of going live.  BSOL could not be provided for off campus users via our EZproxy server and BSOL has not yet implemented Shibboleth.  The British Standards Institute expect to implement Shibboleth by the end of the third quarter of 2018.  Until they do, we can provide off campus via the above link, but regret we cannot provide both on and off campus access via iDiscover until we can enable EZproxy and Shibboleth with BSI.

If you have any question please write to ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk.  Thank you.

 

British Standards Online (BSOL)

The University of Cambridge now has on campus access only to the British Standards Online (BSOL) resource at the following URL

http://bsol.bsigroup.com/

Shibboleth access is to be implemented by the British Standards Institute for off campus authentication in the second or third quarter of 2018.  We are working on providing access via EZproxy in the interim.

Access is available via the Cambridge LibGuides Databases A-Z here

http://libguides.cam.ac.uk/az.php?a=b

And records for the standards in BSOL will soon be available in iDiscover and updated weekly.  NB only on campus users will be able to link through to the standards from iDiscover records.

BSOL is an online library of over 90,000 internationally recognized standards with application to a wide range of subjects, from environmental management to IT security, from construction to food safety.