To access e-books on your mobile phone / Kindle ...
All the e-books the university buys can be read onscreen but at present many of our suppliers do not offer licence agreements that permit texts to be downloaded, mainly because of the need to renegotiate agreements with publishers, authors, and rights holders of illustrations etc. Exceptions to this include: chapters from books on the Cambridge Books Online and Oxford Scholarship Online platforms which can be downloaded in PDF format to e-readers including the Kindle; chapters from the Royal Society of Chemistry platform, and the STAT!Ref medical books which are optimized for delivery on mobile devices.
For more information please visit the ebooks@cambridge website http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/
To search PubMed on your iPhone or Android phone ...
PubMed on Tap / PubMed on Tap Lite enable you to search PubMed from your iPhone while you're out and about. The Lite version is free but only lets you view 10 abstracts from any search. The full version can be downloaded for £1.79 from the iTunes App Store.
PubMed Mobile and PubMed Mobile Pro allow Android users to search PubMed from their phone. PubMed Mobile is free. PubMed Mobile Pro costs £1.86 and offers a bit more functionality. Download them from Android Market.
PubMed also has a mobile interface http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/
[Some of this information was mentioned in the excellent document 'A guide to accessing information via your mobile phone', written by Lynsey Hawker, NHS Liaison Support Librarian, St George's, University of London http://www.sgul.ac.uk/services/library/guides-help-sheets/help-sheets-pdfs/accessing-information-via-your-mobile.pdf].
To search the university's online catalogue, LibrarySearch, via your mobile phone ...
CamLib is the mobile interface for Cambridge libraries, available at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/mob/camlib.cgi. CamLib has been tested with iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Find out more about what you can use it for here: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/toolbox/camlib.html
The UCAM Library Search app for iPhones has been developed by a Cambridge PhD student. It's available for free from the Apple iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ucam-library-search/id459882806?mt=8
If you've found any other really useful mobile web interfaces or apps please let me know and I can mention them in a blogpost here.
