New e-resource – Royal College of Physicians, Part I: 1200-1862

We are pleased to announce that Royal College of Physicians, Part I: 1200-1862, History of Medicine from Folklore to Modern Public Health Policy by Wiley Digital Archives is now available to Cambridge University members.

The Royal College of Physicians – Part I includes content within the date ranges of 1101 through 1862. From the founding charter to 20th-century reports on the effects of smoking, there is a wealth of material on the RCP’s role in relation to contemporary medical advances. The RCP was founded so that physicians could be formally licensed to practise and those who were not qualified could be exposed and punished. There are many archive records defining the RCP’s changing role in setting standards in medical practice. RCP members have always collected manuscripts and papers on a wide range of medical and non-medical topics. As a result the archives contain an eclectic range of 14th- to 19th-century manuscripts. Personal papers of past fellows from the 16th century to the 20th century provide glimpses into the personal lives and social concerns of many distinguished physicians.

The collection includes titles such as:

A Register of the Doctors of Physick in Our Two Universities of Cambridge and Oxford

A sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, January 27, 1793 by James Fawcett

Some Observations Concerning the Fever Which Prevailed at Cambridge during the Spring of 1815

Text from the Wiley website.

ReadCube Research Pass (reblog)

Reblogged from ReadCube:

In collaboration with leading publishers, ReadCube is announcing the launch of an unprecedented new initiative to facilitate access to literature relevant to COVID-19 research.  The COVID-19 Research Pass (CRP) program provides direct access to over 26 million articles and is available to anyone studying or writing about COVID-19.

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, scholarly publishers were quick to open up access to COVID-19 literature to the greater research community. These initiatives have provided much needed and timely access to the latest publications specifically covering the COVID-19 virus.

The CRP program expands on these efforts to provide COVID-19 researchers with access to a broader set of content needed in the course of their research. Rather than pre-filtering access to specific articles related to COVID-19, the CRP allows researchers to access any article from participating publishers they may need while  studying COVID-19, including both open access and content behind paywalls. The ability to access related and prior work can be particularly helpful to researchers studying ways of improving therapies, clinical, and public health outcomes. For example, topics such as ventilators or respiratory syndromes often remain behind paywalls. Additionally, the program can support COVID-19 researchers who are now working remotely and require remote access to literature.

Initial participating publishers include the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Springer Nature, and Wiley. We look forward to welcoming additional publishers to the program and expanding the range of articles accessible to participants.

Key aspects of the program include:

Instant Full-Text Access. Pass holders can access free of charge any full-text article (or book chapter) required for use in the context of their COVID-19 research.

Flexibility. Users can search within the portal or install a web browser extension which will alert them whenever they come across content covered by the program.

Collaboration. Participants can generate temporary sharing URLs that provide read-only access (printing and downloading disabled) to the full text to anyone outside the CRP program. Here is a sample.  These links may be posted on social networking sites. Private collaboration groups are also accessible.

Text & Data Mining. Participants may apply for automated Text and Data Mining Access (TDM) to full-text content.

The program is available to researchers across corporate, government and academic labs, clinicians, and other health care providers, journalists, and policy-makers who are actively working on COVID-19 efforts.

Apply now via https://covid19.readcube.com

New e-resource : BioCyc Database Collection

The University of Cambridge now has access to the BioCyc Database Collection, a new subscription for covid research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BioCyc is a collection of 17043 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for exploring them. Key aspects of BioCyc data:

• Quality data curated from tens of thousands of publications, including curated databases for E. coli, B. subtilis, H. sapiens, and S. cerevisiae.
• Computationally predicted metabolic pathways and operons.
• Data integrated from other databases including gene essentiality, regulatory networks, protein features, and GO annotations.

The BioCyc Database Collection is available to access via the E-Journals Search,  iDiscover or the Databases A-Z.

 

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.

Rockefeller University Press journals : access until 31st May 2020

Rockefeller University Press journals in life sciences & biomedicine are now available to access until 31st may 2020.

Please send any feedback about these journals via the online form.

The journals available are:

JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) publishes advances in any area of basic cell biology as well as applied cellular advances in fields such as immunology, neurobiology, metabolism, microbiology, developmental biology, and plant biology. Est. 1955

JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) publishes papers providing novel conceptual insight into immunology, neuroscience, cancer biology, vascular biology, microbial pathogenesis, and stem cell biology. Est. 1896

JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Journal of General Physiology (JGP)publishes mechanistic and quantitative cellular and molecular physiology of the highest quality. Est. 1918

LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANACE

Life Science Alliance (LSA) publishes valuable research from across all areas in the life sciences. The open access journal is co-published by Rockefeller University Press, EMBO Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Est. 2018

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

The Lancet Psychiatry

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : THE LANCET PSYCHIATRY

 

From the  website for the journal:

“The Lancet Psychiatry launched in print and online in June 2014, following in the footsteps of other Lancet specialty journals such as The Lancet Oncology and The Lancet Neurology. The journal offers the same fast track experience offered by its sister journals for all authors of research papers that are selected for peer review, where articles can be published online within 8 weeks of submission.

The journal publishes a range of article types in psychiatry, including Original Research, Reviews, Personal Views, Comments, and News articles. Topics include psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and psychosocial approaches to all psychiatric disorders, across the life course. The journal covers innovative treatments and the biological research underpinning such developments, novel methods of service delivery, and new ways of thinking about mental illness promoted by social psychiatry. The journal will also advocate strongly for the rights of people with mental health disorders, and welcome the voices of service users.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2014) to present.

Access Journal of Pacific Archaeology via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

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Journal of Thoracic Oncology

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Journal of Thoracic Oncology

From the Elsevier website for the journal:

“Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO), the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, is the primary educational and informational publication for topics relevant to the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of all thoracic malignancies. JTO emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach and includes original research reviews and opinion pieces. The audience includes epidemiologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, thoracic surgeons, pulmonologists, radiologists, pathologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and research scientists with a special interest in thoracic oncology. “

The Journal of Thoracic Oncology has an impact factor of 10.336.

Now available to the University of  Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2006) to present.

Access Journal of Thoracic Oncology via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Image credit: “Thoracic Cage” by biologycorner on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/74p22V

Nature Biomedical Engineering

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Nature Biomedical Engineering

From the Nature website for the journal:

“Nature Biomedical Engineering aspires to become the most prominent publishing venue in biomedical engineering by bringing together the most important advances in the discipline, enhancing their visibility by means of opinion and news articles, and providing overviews of the state of the art in each field through topic-, disease- or technology-focused review articles.

“The journal’s editorial team strives for excellence in content selection, commissioning and editing, in author and reviewer service, and in engagement with the biomedical engineering community. In particular, Nature Biomedical Engineering aims to

• cover the full spectrum of research from the interdisciplinary discipline of biomedical engineering, inspire biomedical engineers to help solve outstanding health challenges, and effectively disseminate the successes of the discipline to the wider scientific community.
• uphold the standards of content quality and author service expected of the Nature-branded family of journals.
• engage with the broad biomedical engineering community, through regular editorial presence at key conferences, visits to laboratories and hospitals, and participation in social media.

“Research in biomedical engineering involves both discovery and invention. Clinical advances provide input for further improvements in methodology and for generating hypotheses to be tested in the laboratory; and conversely, the results of fundamental advances in biology, medicine, materials and physicochemical and engineering processes can lead to the development of therapy and technology that may reach the clinic. Indeed, major inventions of biomedical engineering — such as artificial joints, magnetic resonance imaging, heart pacemakers, heart–lung machines and angioplasties — are built on findings stemming from basic research and have enabled further discoveries. By publishing content that traverses field boundaries, Nature Biomedical Engineering helps to build bridges between bench researchers, clinicians and medical engineers.”

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

Access Nature Biomedical Engineering via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

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Journal of Paramedic Practice

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Journal of Paramedic Practice

 

From the journal website:

“Journal of Paramedic Practice (JPP) is the only monthly peer-reviewed and evidence-based journal for the paramedic profession, providing the latest practical, clinical and professional information for all paramedics, including emergency care practitioners and assistants, medical technicians, critical care paramedics, combat medical technicians, and members of voluntary aid societies. JPP has a team of consultant editors with a strong commitment to paramedic sciences, as well as a prestigious editorial board that represents different strands of the profession.

“JPP will help you update your knowledge in important areas of practice and ultimately deliver the best possible care to your patients.

“JPP is the official partner journal of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives. It is an official partner journal of the Association of Air Ambulances and a media partner of the Independent Ambulance Association.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 7 (2015) to present.

Access Journal of Paramedic Practice via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Image credit: “Air ambulance” by Colin on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/ju5Ech