Cambridge University Press dates from 1534 and is part of the University of Cambridge, furthering the University's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.
Playing a leading role in today's global market place, Cambridge University Press has over 50 offices around the globe, and distributes products to nearly every country in the world. Published titles are written by authors in over 100 different countries.
Open Access is changing the academic research landscape and Cambridge University Press (CUP) continues to be a leader among publishers with over 2,300 transformative agreements worldwide. CUP is offering MCLS members the opportunity to join the existing MCLS Read & Publish agreement.
Through a transformative agreement with Cambridge, your institution gains access to 400+ journals across a wide variety of disciplines. This includes perpetual access to all volumes published in 2023, plus shallow backfile access to journal archives throughout the year (archive access varies by publication). In addition, researchers will be able to publish Open Access in all hybrid and gold OA journals within the CUP Full Journals Package. APCs for Open Access articles are covered through the agreement with no additional or hidden costs.
As a non-profit publisher, Cambridge University Press works hard to keep prices low, and we encourage institutions of all sizes to reach out for more information and a personalized quote from MCLS eLicensing and Collection Resources at services@mcls.org or (517) 939-1382.
CONTACT:
Stephanie Davis
Manager, eLicensing and Collection Resources
Midwest Collaborative for Library Services daviss@mcls.org
517-489-4577
Monday, January 25, 2021 – Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) is pleased to announce a Read and Publish agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP) aimed at advancing open access (OA) in scholarly publishing. To date, nine MCLS member libraries have adopted the new three-year agreement, replacing their standard subscription. They include Calvin University, Grand Valley State University, Hillsdale College, Michigan State University, Oakland University, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, Flint, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University.
As the license agreement moves through the final stages of completion, these libraries have transitioned to CUP’s new model that provides institution-affiliated researchers with uncapped funding of article processing charges (APCs) for publishing original research in CUP journals in a variety of disciplines. This includes publishing in both hybrid and Gold OA journals.
“We are excited to be a part of helping academic libraries support open access on their campuses through the Read and Publish agreement with Cambridge University Press”, notes Stephanie Davis, MCLS eLicensing and Collection Resources Manager. Davis continues, “This agreement maintains the subscription model pricing and, at the same time, allows libraries to give their researchers access to publishing funds, incentivizing them to choose open access publishing.” MCLS Executive Director Scott Garrison adds that “We know that a growing number of MCLS member libraries are keenly interested in advancing OA publishing, to benefit researchers and the general public. As an organization, we are committed to helping libraries innovate, and I believe this agreement with Cambridge demonstrates that commitment. We’re very pleased to work with CUP and the libraries we serve to increase OA research.”
A longtime global leader in open access, Cambridge University Press, the publishing arm of the University of Cambridge, is now turning efforts toward helping libraries in the United States embrace open access. For MCLS, the agreement supports the organization’s mission to “facilitate sharing resources and to collaborate with other organizations to benefit Indiana and Michigan libraries.”
For more information about MCLS and its efforts to promote open access, contact Stephanie D. Davis, 517-489-4577 daviss@mcls.org.
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Cambridge Companions Online: Complete Collection
Cambridge Companions are lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. All are collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers. Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature, and each title is supported by reference features such as a chronology and guide to further reading.
Cambridge Companions Online: Literature and Classics
The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author Companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analysed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed.
Cambridge Companions Online: Philosophy, Religion, and Culture
The Cambridge Companions series offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary audience of students and non-specialists. Addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism.
First published in 1902, the Cambridge Histories is a globally respected series of over 400 volumes spanning fifteen subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
Presenting history as a continuous and evolutionary process, the Cambridge Histories offer a big picture perspective in each subject area, making them essential reading for anyone researching or studying a subject that has an historical element. Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available, this collection represents an impressive breadth and depth of scholarship that offers an unmatched resource for today's historians.
Key Features:
Cambridge Histories series now contains over 400 volumes, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship
Unlimited concurrent users, meaning any number of readers can access the resource simultaneously
Covers multiple academic subjects across the humanities and social sciences
eBooks are accessible via all devices and will automatically adjust to allow easy reading on your preferred device
Content searchable via metadata and fulltext
Easy navigation to the content you need at book and chapter levels
Individual chapters available in PDF to download and print
Users have the ability to save their searches and content to their bookmarks for easy access at a later date
Extensive bibliographic reference functionality; fully referenced content with all references displayed, OpenURL compliant and linked online through CrossRef
Cambridge Histories Online - New Content Add-On Package
The Cambridge Histories have become an established and essential component of the academic research library. Over 320 of these well-known, used and trusted volumes published since the 1960s are available online, adding immense value to the texts and enhancing any aspect of historical research. Cambridge Histories Online (CHO) is an indispensable research tool for undergraduates and academics alike. It offers impressive functionality, enabling quick and easy access to content and the tools to make the content usable in a time effective way, including extensive bibliographic reference linking, personal archives, citation export, remote access and user control display features. CHO covers 14 subject areas, including General History, Regional History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. 15 to 25 new titles will be added each year. 2013 New Content Add-On Package.
The full Cambridge University Press Journals Package offers academic libraries multi-site, institution-wide online access to 315+ academic journals of distinction in a wide range of disciplines. Together the journals form one of the most valuable and comprehensive collections of research available today.
The Cambridge-MCLS group subscription offer includes:
Current content access, including at least 10 years of backfiles for most titles
Perpetual access to all package titles published during the term of the license
The Cambridge University Press Journals Read & Publish option offers academic libraries multi-site, institution-wide online access to 315+ academic journals of distinction in a wide range of disciplines. Together the journals form one of the most valuable and comprehensive collections of research available today. Additionally, this offer supports open access publishing through the following:
Uncapped open access publishing for researchers at participating institutions (research article types)
Publishing into both hybrid and Gold OA journals is covered, including launches and take-on title every subscription year
Read access to all CUP titles, including current content and 10 years of backfiles
This is a pilot product developed to address cost barriers and financially support OA publishing in Cambridge journals for authors based in low and middle income countries, in partnership with institutions around the world. This scheme is expected to impact around 350 articles and hundreds of authors who would otherwise be unfunded. This is a voluntary institutional contribution in support of Open Access. The fee contributions are are tiered based on library size.
The Cambridge Open Equity Initiative offers libraries the opportunity to financially support Open Access publishing for authors based in low and middle income countries – in partnership with institutions around the world.
The Dictionary of Irish Biography is a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, involving 700 contributors and spanning 9,000 lives. The Dictionary is the indispensable reference work for Ireland, and was the 2009 winner of the prestigious PROSE award for Best Multivolume Reference work in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It includes the lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland from James Ussher to James Joyce, St Patrick to Patrick Pearse, St Brigit to Maud Gonne MacBride, Shane O'Neil to Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands. The Dictionary will put their lives into every major library in the world and on the shelves of scholars, journalists, teachers, broadcasters, diplomats and general readers. It will be especially important in helping to sustain Irish studies courses in universities throughout the world.
The Econometrics Society Monographs are high quality research works in the fields of economic theory, econometrics, and quantitative economics mornerally. Econometrics Society Monographs Online (ESMO), produced in partnership with the Econometric Society, integrates these works into a powerful online interface.
Government and Opposition is an international journal of comparative politics. This means that we publish papers dealing with any part of the globe, and on any theme, to do with comparative politics, liberally defined. We are tied to no substantive position, nor to any methodological orthodoxy beyond the fundamental principle of intellectual rigour. To ensure rigour we practise blind refereeing. We publish four issues a year. One of these is usually a commissioned ‘special issue’ on a distinctive theme, and we are always open to proposals for such issues. We also publish substantial review articles, many of which are commissioned, and some of which are the result of proposals made to our review editor.
A team of renowned social scientists came together with Cambridge University Press to create the new online Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics. More than 200 of the nation's leading economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars contributed to this new online edition, which adds thirty years of data and contains coverage of topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 print edition: American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. The most recent scholarship has been brought to bear in every table, which are customizable.
Lectrix is a powerful online tool designed to help students read Greek and Latin texts in the original language by providing them with all the information required actively to understand a text at the click of a mouse, including commentaries, dictionary, parser and translation. Four Greek and four Latin texts are on offer. The main focus of the interface is on the text, which is complemented by a range of study tools including a dictionary, a grammatical parser, an English translation, basic and advanced commentaries, and a library of web pages with background material on grammar and context.
Orlando is a comprehensive electronic database relating to women's writing in the British Isles. It offers a wealth of biographical and critical information on more than 1,200 writers, together with entries on literary and historical events. The database offers entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, internal links, and bibliographies. Entries are tagged, enabling searches to focus not only on author, date and place but also on such issues as genre, intertextuality, and relations with publishers.
Since 1948, Shakespeare Survey has published some of the most distinguished scholarship on the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Today, Shakespeare Survey Online makes the print edition of this acclaimed series available online for the first time as a fully-searchable database. Users can easily navigate the entire contents of every volume in the print series, each featuring reviews of that year's major British performances and of the most noteworthy critical pieces on the Bard. The dynamic interface allows users to browse by author, essay and volume; search by play, theme and topic; and bookmark their results. Shakespeare Survey Online covers the archive of volumes from 1948 on.
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
The Cambridge Companions series offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary audience of students and non-specialists. Addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism.
Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.
The Cambridge Histories have become an established and essential component of the academic research library. Over 320 of these well-known, used and trusted volumes published since the 1960s are available online, adding immense value to the texts and enhancing any aspect of historical research. Cambridge Histories Online (CHO) is an indispensable research tool for undergraduates and academics alike. It offers impressive functionality, enabling quick and easy access to content and the tools to make the content usable in a time effective way, including extensive bibliographic reference linking, personal archives, citation export, remote access and user control display features. CHO covers 14 subject areas, including General History, Regional History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. 15 to 25 new titles will be added each year. Perpetual access collection.
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