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Online exhibition: nursing textbooks
26 January 2012
An online version of the Whipple Library's exhibition of early 20th-century nursing textbooks is now available.
The steel hand in the velvet glove: books used for the teaching and training of nurses
Whipple Library Newsletter
07 October 2011
Find out about important new HPS-related digital resources and other recent library developments.
Whipple Library Newsletter: Michaelmas Term 2011
Early European Books Online
21 September 2011
Important news! The University Library has acquired Early European Books Collections 1 and 2. This online resource complements Early English Books Online to provide researchers and students with access to all works printed in Europe before 1701 and held in the participating libraries, regardless of language, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Early European Books Online contains full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources, including binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages and any loose inserts. Available throughout the University and off campus:
Online exhibition: Isaac Newton and Newtonianism
25 August 2011
An online version of the Whipple Library rare books exhibition Isaac Newton and Newtonianism: popularisation and canonisation via the medium of print is now available. The exhibition, which was curated by HPS Part II students, shows the diverse modes through which the idea of Newton and Newtonianism permeated 18th-century thinking.
Whipple Library Books Blog
08 August 2011
See two new posts on the Books Blog:
- Katie Taylor on the Whipple's annotated copy of Thomas Digges' Pantometria (1591)
- Tim Eggington on John 'Longitude' Harrison and The Scale of Musick
Mapping the origins of a masterpiece: CUL digitises one of the world’s great cartographic treasures
19 May 2011
Published in 1611/12, John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine marked the first time that comprehensive plans of English and Welsh counties and towns were made available in print.
To celebrate the atlas's 400th anniversary, Cambridge University Library has digitised each of the proof maps and put them online. The Library is also selling copies of the 60 plus images that make up Speed's masterpiece.
Read the full story and view the digitized images
Red letter day for Darwin Correspondence Project
19 May 2011
The project mapping Charles Darwin's life and work in the 15,000 letters he wrote or received during his extraordinary lifetime will be completed after a £5 million funding package was announced.
- See the news item on the University Library website
- Find out more about the Darwin Correspondence Project
Online exam questions: website pilot
19 May 2011
CARET have been working on an exploratory project to make past examination papers available online to students.
This is not yet a production service but is a work in progress. This pilot site is aimed at getting some content up quickly and provoking user reaction in the current exam period to find out how students would best like the information presented. The content is currently 2010 examinations only and there may be missing papers as this is based on the contents of the papers printed and bound for holding in College and University libraries under open access.
CARET would like students to react to it while actively thinking about exam preparation! Feedback should be sent to the email address (examspilot@caret.cam.ac.uk) which can be found at the bottom of the FAQ/Contact tab on the website.
Ebooks: downloading copies from the MyiLibrary platform
19 May 2011
The ebooks team has been advised that MyiLibrary have enabled limited downloading of ebooks from their platform to library users. Downloading will be possible to devices which read PDFs, e.g. Sony e-reader, Barnes & Noble Nook. Apps are available (e.g. Bluefire) for the iPhone and iPad (but note, not the Kindle). Users need to create a personal MyiLibrary account and to add Adobe Digital Editions to their device.
Two concurrent downloads will be permitted and the ebook will also remain accessible online as usual. Each download will last for a defined period (understood to be 14 days); readers can place holds and form a queue if both 'copies' are 'on loan'.
MyiLibrary are 'soft-launching' this feature and trialling it for the next 3 months. Further information will follow. In the meantime if you have any questions you can contact the ebooks@cambridge team at: ucam-lib-ebooks@lists.cam.ac.uk
Find out more about ebooks@cambridge
Early 19th-century natural history books of Dr C.R. Goring and Andrew Pritchard
21 February 2011
Now online: Whipple Library exhibition of Early 19th-century natural history books of Dr C.R. Goring and Andrew Pritchard. See their beautiful hand-coloured insect illustrations and find out about their development of the jewel lens microscope.
Conservation of rare books
01 February 2011
The Whipple Library has recently had 10 of its important scientific rare books conserved by the Cambridge Colleges' Conservation Consortium. Details of the work done, with before and after pictures, can be seen on their report.
Cambridge Colleges' Conservation Consortium: Conservation Report for the Whipple Library
New Whipple Library web resource for discovering HPS-related manuscript and rare book collections in Cambridge
22 December 2010
One of the benefits of studying HPS at Cambridge is the University's vast, world-class range of rare book and manuscript collections. Scattered across many libraries, it is, however, not always easy to find out what collections there are and where to find them. This new Whipple Library resource enables you to easily learn about Cambridge's world-class collections, giving you a sense of what there is and where to look further.
Directory of HPS-related special collections in the University of Cambridge
New e-resource: Illustrated London News
20 October 2010
Students and researchers now have online access to the entire run of the Illustrated London News, 1842–2003.
The Illustrated London News was the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Established in 1842, it marked a revolution in journalism and news reporting, presenting a vivid picture of British and world events including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts and science. The online archive spans more than 160 years and includes high-quality colour facsimile images. Accessible on and off-campus using Raven password.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive
Cambridge Libraries Gateway
05 October 2010
Cambridge Libraries Gateway is a new website bringing together information about all the libraries in Cambridge, with lots of useful links, designed for users, both new and current. Let us know what you think of it.
Introducing LibrarySearch – a new way to access University of Cambridge collections
02 September 2010
The new unified catalogue allows for quick and intuitive searching of the print and electronic collections of the libraries of the University and the DSpace@Cambridge digital repository, from one place, including RSS feeds for results, an optional word cloud to navigate related terms, and MyDiscoveries, a tool for storing, tagging and sharing references.
Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution
09 June 2010
A new online exhibition features some of the many references to music theory in the Whipple Library's collection, including works by Isaac Newton, Robert Fludd, Athanasius Kircher, Gaspar Schott, John Wallis, Francis Bacon and John Harrison.
Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution: books concerning music in the Whipple collection
Adventures in the unknown
26 April 2010
Items from the Whipple Library's book display on mesmerism, spiritualism and the supernatural can now be seen online.
Adventures in the unknown: mesmerism, spiritualism and the supernatural
Library account and renewals
01 March 2010
There is now a new widget which you can use to view your library profile, loans and requests in one easy-to-manage application.
Ebooks
25 February 2010
See the latest updated list of ebooks on undergraduate reading lists using this link:
Ebooks currently on HPS undergraduate reading lists
For more information on HPS-relevant ebooks please see the Whipple Library ebooks site.
New e-resource: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
20 January 2010
The most extensive reference work published on this topic representing all branches of the field, major individuals, works, events and institutions that have impacted the history of the psychoanalytical movement. Articles include discussion of 900 concepts and notions, 360 biographies of the major psychoanalysts worldwide and 170 articles on their major works. Access is available on campus and off campus with Raven ID.
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
New e-resource: Oxford Language Web
14 December 2009
Oxford Language Web provides at-a-glance translations for thousands of key words in 13 languages: Arabic, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian and English. Accessible from Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Hume Studies online
11 December 2009
The journal Hume Studies is now available online from 2008.
Darwin anniversary book display
23 October 2009
An online version of the Whipple Library's display marking the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species is now available.
Darwin anniversary book display: publication, controversy and popularisation
Darwin’s library to be made available digitally
18 September 2009
Annotations made by Darwin in his copy of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (5th edition, 1837), held at Cambridge University Library
Scholars around the world will soon be able to see Darwin's hand-written annotations on the books in his personal library.
Among the treasures of Cambridge University Library is Darwin's richly annotated library. Thanks to a JISC/NEH-funded collaborative project between the Library and high-profile partners including the Natural History Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, Darwin's marginalia – originally transcribed manually in the 1980s – will be 'digitally married' to the texts they annotate and made available to scholars within the international Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The project is supported by the JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration grant program offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a joint committee of the UK further and higher education funding bodies.
Further information on the JISC website
Updated e-resource: Wellcome Film Collection
15 September 2009
A further 230+ Wellcome titles are being added to Film & Sound Online in a process to finish in December 2009. The core collection consists of about 60 Wellcome Trust titles that were made by the corporate arm of the organisation, in the guise of the Wellcome Foundation. The earliest footage is of archaeological digs in the Sudan, at Jebel Moya, featuring the founder, Sir Henry Wellcome himself ('A day at Gebel Moya, season 1912–13'), as well as more jaunty corporate fare about the business of running a pharmaceutical company ('Looking Around, The Story of the Wellcome Foundation'). Film & Sound Online is available on campus and via Raven.
Springer Online Archive extended
12 August 2009
An update package to the Springer Online Archives Collection which was purchased by the University in August 2008 is now available. This package adds online access to the full text of an additional 119 journal titles and more than 4,000 volumes from titles that have been taken over by Springer.
The HPS relevant Springer titles can be accessed via the Whipple Library ejournals page. All available Springer titles are searchable via the ejournals@cambridge portal, or directly from the SpringerLink site or via Google Scholar. Access is available within the University domain, and via Raven passwords from elsewhere.
Extended access to the Web of Science Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index
11 August 2009
The Science Citation Index coverage has been extended to include retrospective data from 1900 to the present, and the Social Science Citation Index from 1956 to present.
These resources are multidisciplinary indexes to the journal literature in the sciences and social sciences respectively, and fully index over 6,650 major journals in the sciences, and 1,900 journals in the social sciences. To search the indexes, go to the Web of Knowledge homepage, select Web of Science from the list of indexes on the Whipple Library online indexes and bibliographies page or search for it on eresources@cambridge. Select the Web of Science tab. Web of Science requires a Raven login.
Expanded e-resource: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Part 2 now available
10 August 2009
ECCO contains over 200,000 volumes of key 18th-century works. The material in ECCO Part 2 includes both new titles that have been added to the English Short Title Catalogue as well as newly reported holdings information. With 45,000 new titles, ECCO Part 2 adds nearly 7 million pages to the collection.
The new release includes an enhanced user interface with new features and contextual tools to make the database more accessible to students and valuable to advanced researchers.
Access is available within the University domain, and via Raven passwords from elsewhere, via the eresources@cambridge webpages or:
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Off-campus users must choose Shibboleth as their log-in/authentification route.
Access to electronic resources off-campus: important changes from 1 August
01 August 2009
From 1 August users of Raven identifiers and passwords for access to electronic resources off campus will not be able to use the links on publishers' websites marked 'Athens' since the gateway between Raven and Athens will be withdrawn from that date.
Users off-campus should log in using the links provided by publishers on their websites marked 'Institutional login', 'Log in via your home institution' or 'Shibboleth'.
Most users will already have migrated to this login method since this is the final stage of a transition over a two year period.
Further information on this change and contact details for enquiries
New philosophy e-books
21 April 2009
The following e-book titles for philosophy have been recently purchased:
- Dries, M., ed., Nietzsche On Time and History
- Kripke, S., Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
- Leiter, B., Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality
- Politis, V., Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics
Oxford Scholarship Online collection of e-books
20 April 2009
The University now subscribes to Oxford Scholarship Online, which includes hundreds of philosophy e-books. The books are accessible on campus without passwords and off-campus with a Raven ID and password.
New trial e-resource: Springer STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) E-Books 2005–2009
26 March 2009
Springer is one of the largest publishers of STM books. The University Library is pleased to announce that a six-month trial licence of Springer books-online is now available, providing access to over 13,000 key eBooks published between 2005 and 2009. Access is available on-campus and off-campus with a Raven password at http://www.springerlink.com/books. The works accessible through the trial are marked with green boxes.
Wellcome Film Collection
18 March 2009
Content from the Wellcome Film Collection has now been added to the online resource Film & Sound Online. 212 films have been included with a further 230 to follow. The core collection consists of about 60 Wellcome Trust titles. It is available at http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/collections/wellcome.html.
Cambridge University Library Research Skills Programme RSS feed now available
16 March 2009
The Research Skills Programme can now be accessed by RSS. Visit http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Courses/research_skills.rss to sign up. Find out more about the programme at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Courses/.
17th and 18th century Burney Collection newspapers
10 February 2009
The Burney Collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers online is now available to staff and students of the University. This was made possible through an agreement negotiated by JISC Collections for all UK universities. The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757–1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
A site has also been set up by the publisher, Gale Cengage, to facilitate cross-searching with the 19th Century British Library Newspapers under the heading 'British Newspapers 1600–1900' at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cambuni?db=BNWS. The Burney Collection is also available on the Gale Cengage site which provides access to all of their titles, including 18th Century Collections Online, at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cambuni.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
02 February 2009
This comprehensive ebook includes the complete text of the 18-volume original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, to form the online equivalent of a 26-volume reference source containing biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. Available both on and off campus (requires Raven password off-campus).
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
New Whipple Library
07 October 2008
The new Whipple Library is now completed and open to library users. Do come and have a look!
Further information about the new Whipple Library
New federated searching service at Cambridge!
15 September 2008
CrossSearch enables Google-style searching of over 300 key resources simultaneously, including Philosopher's Index, Web of Science, Science Direct, major ejournal providers Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Early English Books Online. In the advanced CrossSearch interface, multiple subject areas or specific resources can be searched at once. CrossSearch is available direct to current students and staff within the Cambridge domain. Off campus access available via Raven.