Trial access has been arranged to the resources below for evaluation purposes. If you feel that they would be of value to you or your department please let us know by e-mailing it_services@lib.cam.ac.uk.
Birds of North America Online
On behalf of the Department of Zoology (Balfour & Newton Libraries), the University Library has arranged for trial access, on campus only, to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's "Birds of North American Online" resource which can be accessed until May 26 2009 via the URL: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/
BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.
Trial expires: 26th May 2009
Springer e-books 2005-2009
A 6-month trial licence of the Springer ebooks collection is now available. For the duration of the trial users will have access to more than 13,000 key eBooks, eBook Series and eReference Works published by Springer between 2005-2009 on the SpringerLink interface through which Springer ejournals are already accessible. Springer is the world's second-largest publisher of journals in science, technology, and medicine, and the largest publisher of books in this field.
Access is available on-campus without passwords and off-campus with a Raven password at http://www.springerlink.com. The books accessible through the trial are indicated by green boxes on the search results lists in SpringerLink. A browsable view of the books can be found at http://www.springerlink.com/books/; limit to subect area, date of publication and language using the option on the bottom right-hand of the screen.
This is the largest trial of ebooks to date in the university. Comments would be welcomed on any aspect of the trial, the collection as a whole or individual titles, and should be sent to it_services@lib.cam.ac.uk.
Trial expires: 31st August 2009
