Jayne Kelly
@litbirdsoul.bsky.social
Ebooker in an academic library setting, gin, tasty food, more gin.
Highlighting this post about the 2025 Princeton ebooks collection. More ebooks helping to support teaching, learning and research in STEMM.
Cambridge University users now have access to the 2025 Princeton University Press collection, presenting a range of new titles which will be of interest to STEMM students. Please see our blogpost for further details: ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/c...
September 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Highlighting this post about the 2025 Princeton ebooks collection. More ebooks helping to support teaching, learning and research in STEMM.
An amazingly rich resource for HSS, hopefully lots of Cambridge students and researchers will be able to make good use of this reference collection.
University of Cambridge users now have access to Springer Natures' Humanities & Social Sciences Reference collection. This opens up a lot of important content for HASS students, if you want to find out more please go to ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/n...
September 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
An amazingly rich resource for HSS, hopefully lots of Cambridge students and researchers will be able to make good use of this reference collection.
Another new STEMM ebooks collection for Cambridge University users, amongst many others. Please check out the ebooks@Cambridge blog for a host of other renewals and new purchases.
Exciting news if you study or research in the Physical Sciences! University of Cambridge users now have access to Springer Natures' Physical & Materials Sciences Reference collection. For more details please have a look at the recent blog post; ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/n...
August 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Another new STEMM ebooks collection for Cambridge University users, amongst many others. Please check out the ebooks@Cambridge blog for a host of other renewals and new purchases.
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The AccessEngineering collection from McGraw-Hill has been renewed. If you study Engineering (& other associated subjects) please check out further details on this blogpost; ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/c...
Collections update: McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering renewal
Cambridge University STEMM Libraries have renewed McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering collection for 25/26. AccessEngineering is an engineering reference and teaching platform that delivers inter…
ebookscambridge.wordpress.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The AccessEngineering collection from McGraw-Hill has been renewed. If you study Engineering (& other associated subjects) please check out further details on this blogpost; ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/c...
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Fantastic #cataloguing role going with @openbookcollective.bsky.social 📚
Please could you share with your networks @emmabooth.bsky.social @cilipmdg.bsky.social 🤝
Please could you share with your networks @emmabooth.bsky.social @cilipmdg.bsky.social 🤝
We're looking for a motivated individual with experience in #cataloguing to join @openbookcollective.bsky.social as a Metadata Management Associate until the end of the project (April 2026)
More details, including salary, role & responsibilities 👉 buff.ly/osBiauF
More details, including salary, role & responsibilities 👉 buff.ly/osBiauF
Job: Metadata Management Associate at Open Book Collective
An opportunity to become involved with a new organisation at the cutting edge of the Diamond Open Access movement, supporting the creation and improvement of the metadata from OBC publisher members
buff.ly
May 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Fantastic #cataloguing role going with @openbookcollective.bsky.social 📚
Please could you share with your networks @emmabooth.bsky.social @cilipmdg.bsky.social 🤝
Please could you share with your networks @emmabooth.bsky.social @cilipmdg.bsky.social 🤝
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NAG Members webinar:
Shrink to Fit: Sharing practical and strategic approaches to managing library budget reductions with Sarah Thompson and Eleonora Gandolfi
Wednesday 4th June 13:30-14:30
NAG Institutional members only, no recording.
nag.org.uk/event/shrink/
Shrink to Fit: Sharing practical and strategic approaches to managing library budget reductions with Sarah Thompson and Eleonora Gandolfi
Wednesday 4th June 13:30-14:30
NAG Institutional members only, no recording.
nag.org.uk/event/shrink/
May 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
NAG Members webinar:
Shrink to Fit: Sharing practical and strategic approaches to managing library budget reductions with Sarah Thompson and Eleonora Gandolfi
Wednesday 4th June 13:30-14:30
NAG Institutional members only, no recording.
nag.org.uk/event/shrink/
Shrink to Fit: Sharing practical and strategic approaches to managing library budget reductions with Sarah Thompson and Eleonora Gandolfi
Wednesday 4th June 13:30-14:30
NAG Institutional members only, no recording.
nag.org.uk/event/shrink/
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Almost goosebumps to see Sarah Thompson from York University at the @oipassoc.bsky.social panel, talking about how proud they are to support initiatives they judge as in line with their principles. Including so many @copim.bsky.social things 🤩.
April 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Almost goosebumps to see Sarah Thompson from York University at the @oipassoc.bsky.social panel, talking about how proud they are to support initiatives they judge as in line with their principles. Including so many @copim.bsky.social things 🤩.
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Extraodinary! DOGE instructs a US national library to cancel subscriptions to all journals from 17 publishers (UP and societies) but not commercials! State controlling access to knowledge.
Of course the importance of #openaccess content is made even more transparent.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Of course the importance of #openaccess content is made even more transparent.
www.science.org/content/arti...
DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library
“We can’t do science without these,” one researcher says of the hundreds of journals no longer accessible
www.science.org
March 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Extraodinary! DOGE instructs a US national library to cancel subscriptions to all journals from 17 publishers (UP and societies) but not commercials! State controlling access to knowledge.
Of course the importance of #openaccess content is made even more transparent.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Of course the importance of #openaccess content is made even more transparent.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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"Another supplier moving into nebulous negotiation territory, rather than transparent title by title pricing, has been met with frustration and disappointment across the sector"
Helpful overview of the Clarivate situation from Kevin O’Donovan.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Helpful overview of the Clarivate situation from Kevin O’Donovan.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks?
Proquest recently announced that it will be changing its business model to move away from print textbooks and monographs, solely to ebooks via a subscription-based model similar to a “Big Deal”. Ke…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Another supplier moving into nebulous negotiation territory, rather than transparent title by title pricing, has been met with frustration and disappointment across the sector"
Helpful overview of the Clarivate situation from Kevin O’Donovan.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Helpful overview of the Clarivate situation from Kevin O’Donovan.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Oh-oh, see that Clarivate is upsetting us librarians with today’s bombshell announcement. 😳
clarivate.com/academia-gov...
clarivate.com/academia-gov...
Introducing ProQuest Ebooks, the world’s largest scholarly ebook subscription | Clarivate
Supporting our transformative subscription-based strategy with broad, simple access to trusted curated content
clarivate.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Oh-oh, see that Clarivate is upsetting us librarians with today’s bombshell announcement. 😳
clarivate.com/academia-gov...
clarivate.com/academia-gov...