Legal Deposit Libraries legislation now covers electronic publications

Legal Deposit now covers material published digitally and online, so that the Legal Deposit Libraries can provide a national archive of the UK’s non-print published material, such as websites, blogs, e-journals and CD-ROMs. 

The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013 came into effect on 6th April.

Access to the material is available from dedicated public workstations in the University Library and Affiliated Libraries in Cambridge.

Please visit the University Library's Legal Deposit website at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/legaldeposit/ to find out more about the legislation, how to access the material, and to link to some useful FAQs about its content and accessibility.

New e-books purchased by the Zoology Library!

The Balfour Library has purchased two new e-books on using R: 

Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R, by Alain F. Zuur ... [et al.], and Analysis of phylogenetics and evolution with R, by Emmanuel Paradis.

To see and access all the e-books available in zoology and neuroscience, and to keep up-to-date with the library's latest book and e-book acquisitions, please visit our Pinterest online pinboard at http://pinterest.com/zoolib/.

The R books appear appear as pins on the New e-books July 2013 and New e-books August 2013 boards.

Guilford Press trial

Guilford Press is a publisher of books, periodicals, software, and DVDs in mental health, education, geography, and the social and behavioral sciences. 

They publish 12 journals and the University of Cambridge has arranged a free trial of all of these journals (from 2001 through 2013), which will run until November 2013. 

For access please follow this link: http://www.guilfordjournals.com

How to use e-books on mobile devices

Many of the e-books that the University has purchased can be downloaded Android and Apple (iOS) devices including tablets, smartphones, iPads and iPhones, as well as e-readers such as Sony ereader, Kindle and Nook.

Different e-book platforms support different devices. The following information has been adapted from the ebooks@cambridge website http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/index.html and blog http://ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/dawsonera-downloading-arrives/.

Dawsonera

dawsonera ebooks can now be downloaded to Android and Apple (iOS) mobile devices, including tablets, smartphones, iPads and iPhones. Users will be asked to choose from 1 or 2 day downloads. Downloading to Mac computers has also been enabled.

Each dawsonera e-book is available as either PDF or as EPUB file, this depends on the publishers. Instructions for downloading these two file types are different and detailed in the online help guides available from this User Guide webpage.

Click on either Downloading ebooks to an Android device or on Downloading ebooks to iOS for step-by-step instructions. You will need to have registered for an Adobe ID if you haven’t got one already, you can do this from here. You will also need to ensure you have the Bluefire Reader App downloaded onto your device (for reading EPUB files) and the Adobe Reader App (for downloading PDF files).

You can still download dawsonera ebooks to a PC, laptop or memory stick and also to a Mac (although if the default PDF reader is Preview the ebooks won’t open, try installing and using Adobe Reader instead). 

Cambridge Books Online, Cambridge Companions Online, Oxford Scholarship Online, SpringerLink and Wiley

Chapters from these platforms can be downloaded in PDF format to e-readers including the Kindle.

MyiLibrary

Some ebooks from this platform can be downloaded for 3 days to PC, laptop, Sony ereader, Nook, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices, but not Kindle. See Help with downloading from myiLibrary , including a list of downloadable titles, or watch the YouTube video on Downloading MyiLibrary e-books.

Useful guides

The English Faculty Library has produced a document on the pros and cons of using Kindles and a guide to downloading a Cambridge Companion chapter to Kindle.

See the ebooks@cambridge Access instructions for e-books collections guide for detailed help.

IOS Press trial

IOS Press publishes more than 100 international journals each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences. IOS have granted the University of Cambridge a free trial of their entire journal portfolio until November 2013. 

For access please follow either of the links below:

http://iospress.metapress.com

http://metapress.com (go to publishers and select IOS Press from list)

Please let me have any feedback you have on this trial at cmc32@cam.ac.uk.