New e-resource : Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education

Following a recommendation for access we can now announce that the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education is now available to members of the University of Cambridge.

“As a field of study, education draws widely from other disciplines while constituting a discourse all its own. It is simultaneously a field of study, a set of social and professional practices, and a range of social institutions. Educational researchers are concerned with the purposes of education, how people learn, the implications of various ways of teaching, the pedagogical and social effects of organizational and institutional arrangements, and ultimately with improvement in all these. They examine education’s relation to and effect upon culture, socialization, politics, national and international development, social change, social maintenance, and conflict. Educational researchers study informal learning, public pedagogies, technologies, social problems and social contexts. They are also charged with sorting out various schemes to improve effectiveness and efficiency, distinguishing between fad and improvement, hype and substance.

“The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education will be the authoritative resource for those who wish to understand this complex field of inquiry and endeavor. Education is one of the largest fields of study across the globe. It is of concern to citizens and parents, politicians and policymakers, educators and scholars. The ORE of Education provides thorough and balanced syntheses of what is known, what is disputed, and what is in progress in education research. The syntheses will be gateways to new domains of inquiry, providing provocative ideas and incisive critiques as well as addressing the broad controversies that mark education. The ORE of Education will be the singular resource for access to all that is known and all that is being thought in and about education.

“The digital format of the ORE of Education enables continuously revisable articles so that there will be minimal lag between primary research and the syntheses provided in the Encyclopedia. It is a resource that invites repeated perusal. As a born-digital resource, the Encyclopedia is able to offer multimedia content both in terms of providing substantive videos and audio recordings as well as cross-links that are embedded so that readers can follow a point across the ORE of Education, Oxford University Press’s other scholarly resources, and the wider literature to discern novel connections or digressions. The ORE of Education enables the development of definitive understandings as well as the creative exploration of ideas.”

George W. Noblit, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education is available to access via the Databases A-Z and iDiscover (from 1st April).

 

New e-resource : Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science

Following a recommendation for access we can now announce that the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science is now available to members of the University of Cambridge.

“Climate, in particular climate change, climate impact and climate policy, and the perspectives they provide have occupied front seats in the global arena for over two decades. “Climate change” in particular has become a household term, and needs little explanation.

“This encyclopedia engages both the global and the regional view. It structures the issues that “climate” presents into three threads, namely: (1) our understanding of, and response to, the geophysical and biogeochemical system, including the sensitivity of the system to external drivers and its natural variability. (2) The ubiquitous presence of communication and policymaking leads us to deal with different cultural framings of climate, as well as with the social process of climate science. (3) Finally economic and climate policy issues at the international and at the local level are considered.

“A special feature is our plan to cover many regions of the world by interdisciplinary analyses of what climate, climate impacts, and perspectives on climate are as well as the options for, and the conditions and meaning of, societal response to climate.”

Dr. Hans von Storch
Former Director of the Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
Editor in Chief

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science is available to access via the Databases A-Z and iDiscover (from 1st April).

 

Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.

From the Project Muse website for the journal:

“The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books provides concise summaries and critical evaluations of current children’s books. This invaluable resource assists readers with questions regarding the ever-evolving children’s literature field. Reviews give an in-depth look at a selected book’s content, reading level, strengths and weaknesses, and quality of the format, as well as suggestions for curricular use.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 59 (2005) to present.

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Manuscript Studies

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Manuscript Studies.

From the Project Muse website for the journal:

“Manuscript Studies is a new journal that embraces the full complexity of global manuscript studies in the digital age. It has been conceived with four main goals in mind. First, to bridge the gaps between material and digital manuscript research; second, to break down the walls which often separate print and digital publication and serve as barriers between academics, professionals in the cultural heritage field, and citizen scholars; third, to serve as a forum for scholarship encompassing many pre-modern manuscripts cultures—not just those of Europe; and finally to showcase methods and techniques of analysis in manuscript studies that can be applied across different subject areas”

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

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Critical Philosophy of Race

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Critical Philosophy of Race.

From the Project Muse website for the journal:

“Critical Philosophy of Race will examine issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. It opposes racism in all forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. “

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2013) to present.

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Philosophy and Theology

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Philosophy and Theology

From the Philosophy Document Centre website for the journal:

“Philosophy & Theology is a peer-reviewed journal that addresses all areas of interest to these two ancient disciplines and explores the common ground that joins them. While not a journal of the philosophy of religion, one issue each year includes articles devoted to the thought and legacy of the theologian Karl Rahner. Rahner’s appropriation of diverse theological and philosophical sources provided an innovative conceptual framework that established his reputation as one of the most influential systematic theologians of the Vatican II era.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (1986) to present.

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HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.

From the University of Chicago Press website for the journal:

“HOPOS presents international, peer-reviewed scholarship concerning the history of philosophical discussions about science. The journal provides an outlet for interdisciplinary work that helps to explain the links among philosophy, science, and mathematics, along with the social, economic, and political context. The journal features articles, book reviews, and annually, an extensive essay review of the recent scholarship in a growing area of the field.

“HOPOS is the official journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2011) to present.

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Grazer philosophische Studien

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Grazer philosophische Studien: International Journal for Analytic Philosophy

From the Brill website for the journal:

“Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area, especially articles related to the analytic tradition. Each year at least two volumes are published, including special issues with invited papers.”

The journal was published as a book series (1 issue per volume) until 2015.

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 58 (2000) to present.

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Film Studies

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Film Studies.

From the Ingenta website for the journal:

“Film Studies is a refereed journal that approaches cinema and the moving image from within the fields of critical, conceptual and historical scholarship. The aim is to provide a forum for the interdisciplinary, intercultural and intermedial study of film by publishing innovative research of the highest quality.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 4 (2004) to present.

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Early Modern Women

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Early  Modern Women.

From the Iter website for the journal:

“Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is the only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender during the years 1400 to 1700. Each volume gathers essays on early modern women from every country and region, by scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, including art history, cultural studies, music, history, political science, religion, theatre, history of science, and history of philosophy.”

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

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