CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge Companions Online Collection (CCOL)
Historical Statistics of the United States
Orlando Women's writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the present
Shakespeare Survey Online
Lectrix Online
Cambridge eBooks packages
Histories Online

Please click here to view pricing information for the above CUP online products. (pdf 218KB)

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1) Cambridge Companions Online Collection (CCOL)Overview
Cambridge Companions Online is the electronic version of the renowned Cambridge Companions series, covering literature, philosophy, classics, religion and cultural studies. Each of the 221 Companions offers lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. Specially commissioned essays enhance the content. The online collection enhances and complements the book series by adding unrivalled access and functionality.

Available in three packages;
1. The Complete Companions Collection - Incorporating both packages 2 and 3.
2. The Literature and Classics Collection - Featuring over 130 titles previously available only as individual books.
3. The Philosophy, Religion and Culture Collection - Featuring over 80 titles previously available only as individual books.

Please click here to view listing of titles for Completed Companions Collection (pdf 1.27MB).

Format

Web access only.
Contains all 221 Companions, available as a complete collection, or in two discrete subsets: literature and philosophy.

Price

Subscription model.
Pricing based on FTE.
Separate price for schools and public libraries
Individual subscriptions are available.
Free 30 day trial available.

Product Development

Cambridge Companions Online is a very dynamic resource. Cambridge will continue to update the content, and develop the functionality. Additional functionality planned for future releases includes ATHENS and Shibboleth compliance and OpenURL linking.

Guided Tour
To help you use Cambridge Collections Online more efficiently and to highlight the main features and functionality of the site including screen shots, Cambridge have created this short guided tour.

Click here to view guided tour (ppt 3.1MB).

2) Historical Statistics of the United States

Cambridge University Press is proud to announce the publication of the Millennial Edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States in both print and electronic versions. The last edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States was published by the Census Bureau in 1975. When the Census Bureau decided in the early 1990's that it would not publish a new edition of Historical Statistics, a team of renowned social scientists came together with Cambridge University Press to create a new edition.More than 200 of the nation's leading economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars contributed to the Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics.

This new edition adds thirty years of data and contains coverage of topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 edition: American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. The most recent scholarship has been brought to bear in every table. Furthermore the electronic edition has been designed to give users a variety of means to search and navigate the vast amount of data in the Historical Statistics.

Users will be able to graph individual tables or to combine data from different tables into "custom tables" and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications. We are certain that the new edition of the Historical Statistics will be received as a major tool for understanding the American past.

Features

All data fully searchable and navigable.
Data, graphs and tables are all fully downloadable and accessible in Excel, CSV, ZIP, PDF or HTML format, and can be automatically emailed to any address.
Downloadable MARC record.
Ability to track title activity via ICOL-compliant usage statistics.

Format

Web access only.

Price

Subscription model.
Pricing based on FTE.
Separate price for schools and public libraries
Individual subscriptions are available.
Free 30 day trial available.

3) Orlando Women's writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the present

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 850 British women writers (including over 20,000 bibliographical listings), together with related entries on literary and historical events. Orlando is to be updated regularly on an ongoing basis. Entries cover authors' lives, careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links and bibliographies.

Features

Full search facility.
Extensive use of tagging, enabling searches to cover every aspect of the writer’s lives.
Extensive help files and full customer service available.
Full citation details for use in coursework and research.
Chronological features enable users to create their own timelines.
Thousands of cross-linked entries

Format

Web access only.

Price

Subscription model.
Pricing based on FTE.
Separate price for schools and public libraries
Individual subscriptions are available.
Free 30 day trial available.

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4) Shakespeare Survey Online

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.

The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey available online for the first time.

Accessible through a fully searchable interface, users can browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and bookmark their results. Personalisation features are also available allowing lecturers to create shared workspaces for students, enhancing and developing course materials and for students to set up their own study space.

Key Features

Makes all print editions of Shakespeare Survey available online exclusively and for the first time.
Citation export feature means users can download their citation in their chosen format, as well as e-mail the citation to themselves or a colleague.
Browse themes feature, allowing users to browse across over 100 pre-defined themes.
Search by article type, allowing users to define their search more closely based on Critical Essays, Performance Review Essay, Theatre/Film Listing, Book Review Essay or Interview.
Save searches, bookmark your favourite essays and create student-friendly reading lists.
PDF format for easy downloading, printing and saving (including PDF hit highlighting).
Search by Boolean, proximity, stemming or using the full text.
DOI's included for each chapter and book, displaying on search results and supporting linking from external link resolvers.
Updated with new Shakespeare Survey issues as soon as they are available.
Subscriber Services including freely downloadable MARC records and the ability to add your institutional logo.
Comprehensive customer service, answering all your queries post-purchase

Please click here to download PDF brochure (pdf 187KB).

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5) Lectrix Online

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.

Clicking on any word within the text will bring up entries in the dictionary and parser windows.
A separate pane will display a basic commentary written specifically for and unique to Lectrix.
A more advanced commentary, taken from the relevant volume of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, is also available.
Each is accessed through a separate pane and is keyed to the text in the same way as the dictionary and parser.
A further window provides a newly commissioned English translation, again unique to Lectrix.
The user can decide how many windows they wish to have open at any one time.

Used together, these extensive integrated resources form a powerful tool for the teaching, understanding and analysis of ancient texts.

Key Features

Innovative product designed to help students interpret Greek & Latin texts in the original language with increased fluency and engagement
8 key Greek & Latin texts
Extensive range of study tools including dictionary definition, parser, basic & advanced commentary and translation
Clear, intuitive interface
Invaluable for self-study, equally at home in the classroom
Collaborative project between the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Press
Regular updates
Available in three separate packages: purchase access to all the texts on offer or the Greek or Latin selections only
Annual subscription offered for both institutions and individuals
Comprehensive customer service, answering all your queries post-purchase

Please click here to download PDF brochure {(pdf 122KB).

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6) Cambridge eBooks packages

Cambridge University Press currently offer over 30,000 titles in digital format and this figure is growing all the time. They offer titles in a huge range of subjects and all three of the major formats; Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket and Adobe, so you are sure to find a title of interest in a format compatible with your needs.

Seven new subject collections are available now: two in Mathematics, one in Physics; two in Economics, one in Business and Management and one in Language and Linguistics.

Each collection has @ 100 titles (60 in Business and Management)
Titles included are from 2002 onwards up to 2007, with some exceptions
Collections are sold as complete sets only
Update frontlist collections in these subjects will be available and we also plan to add new collections in other subjects

Features for Users

Full text searching
Functionality includes copy & paste, print & e-mailing
Read Aloud
Online access solutions for best user experience
Remote access

For Librarians
Librarians benefit from comprehensive support through the set up and post sale process, including technical support and material for promotional activities.

MARC records
COUNTER Compliant Usage Statistics to title level

Please click here to download PDF brochure (pdf 553KB).

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7) Histories Online

Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the recent launch of Cambridge Histories Online

This vast collection of leading scholarly content covers a diverse range of topics, guaranteeing access to the most authoritative thinking and research and making this comprehensive compendium of the past a key resource of the future.

Cambridge Histories Online will bring the world renowned Cambridge Histories texts to life, adding immense value to the collections to enhance every aspect of research.

Key Features:

Contains 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship
An established and essential component of the academic research library now easily accessible online for the first time. Bringing together works covering every aspect of world history
Authoritative content, well known, trusted and used by librarian and researchers alike
Unique and dynamic content
Comprehensive feature set, including market leading personalisation and reference linking, ensuring maximum benefit from research time

Click on the following links for further information:

Cambridge Histories Online Title List (xls 118KB)

Cambridge Histories Online Flyer (pdf 832KB)

Cambridge Histories Online Brochure (pdf 1.66MB)

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