Monday 27 September 2010

New acquisitions

New books:

The beginning of the age of mammals, by Kenneth D. Rose. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press; 2006. Balfour Library shelfmark: Y.12 (16iii-iv)

Behavioural ecology: an evolutionary approach, 4th ed., edited by John R. Krebs and Nicholas B. Davies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing; 1997. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (117dv)

Cell signalling, 3rd ed., by John T. Hancock. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (298ci-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Developmental biology, 9th ed., by Scott F. Gilbert. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: EEB (64i1-4) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Ecology of freshwaters: a view for the twenty-first century, 4th ed., by Brian Moss. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GG (118di-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Essentials of conservation biology, 5th ed., by Richard B. Primack. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (77ei-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Functional biochemistry in health and disease, by Eric A. Newsholme and Tony R. Leech. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: EH (59)

Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences, 7th ed., by David C. Howell. Cengage Learning; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBB (75gi-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

In search of memory: the emergence of a new science of mind, by Eric R. Kandel. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company; 2006. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFW (8i-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

The insects: an outline of entomology, 4th ed., by Penny J. Gullan and Peter Cranston. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q (82di-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Mammalogy, 5th ed., by Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Y (21ei-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Metabolic regulation: a human perspective, 3rd ed., by Keith N. Frayn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GDH (7ci-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

The origin and evolution of mammals, by T. S. Kemp. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2005. Balfour Library shelfmark: Y.12 (11iv)

Plant physiology, 5th ed., by Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: qFA (2ei) (Overnight Loan shelves)

The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience, 2nd ed., by Jamie Ward. Hove: Psychology Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GF (25bi-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Trophic cascades: predators, prey, and the changing dynamics of nature, edited by John Terborgh and James A. Estes. Washington, DC: Island Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGP (80)

Book donations by Cambridge University Press:

Ecology and evolution of cooperative breeding in birds, edited by Walter D. Koenig and Janis L. Dickinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2004. Balfour Library shelfmark: K.8 (60iv)

Global warming: the complete briefing, 4th ed., by Sir John Houghton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (124dii-v) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

Invertebrate vision, edited by Eric Warrant and Dan-Eric Nilsson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2006. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFS (40iii-iv)

New Cambridge Libraries Film - 'The Perfect Desk'

Think university, think one library building? ... Not at Cambridge! With over ONE HUNDRED libraries with many and varied collections, the University provides the best possible resources to enable students to excel in their chosen subject.

This film invites you to find out from current students what they most value about the rich diversity of Cambridge's libraries and the ways in which each library becomes not simply a repository of books on their reading lists but their own unique space ... Find out more about the libraries at University of Cambridge, and which ones might be useful for you at www.lib.cam.ac.uk/libraries

You can also view the film directly on YouTube at http://www.tinyurl.com/theperfectdesk

New website for Cambridge Libraries - and we'll be at the Freshers' Fair!

The Cambridge Libraries Gateway website is now available at http://www.cam.ac.uk/libraries

This is a website that consolidates information about all the libraries available within the University of Cambridge - there are over 100 of them!

Sections include: How do I...? (e.g. find books, find journals etc.); ads for new library services such a the new mobile phone app; the Research Skills Programme for all undergraduate other members of the University; a feed from various libraries' blogs; a link to the online book renewal / library account facility; and much, much more.

Cambridge Libraries will have a presence for the first time ever at the Freshers' Fair this year, which will be held on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th October at the Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall. Several librarians from different libraries around the University will be ready and very willing to talk about all the libraries available to you and how you can use them. We will be giving out fliers, and hopefully will have a mobile phone and laptop to demonstrate some of the remote library services available.

On the new Cambridge Libraries website you can also check out also our new film, The Perfect Desk, to give you a student's eye view of the library system in Cambridge.

SciVerse - a new platform for Scopus and ScienceDirect

Elsevier have launched a new platform called SciVerse. ScienceDirect and Scopus are available on the new platform, and it is now possible to search across both platforms and web content from the Scirus scientific research web tool in a single search using the new SciVerse Hub.

The SciVerse Hub Beta is available at http://www.hub.sciverse.com/. Search results are ranked by relevancy with no duplication, with a single click to link to documents in the results list. The new platform also provides for a single login to both products.

A short video is available to demonstrate the platform at http://www.acceleratescience.com/preview

Future developments on the Sciverse platform include:

  • SciVerse SciTopics (due late 2010) is a dynamic, quick, informal-yet-authoritative online publication forum in which researchers can meet and share authoritative research summaries on a wide range of scientific topics.
  • SciVerse Applications (available in 2011) will be the place to find and market applications, or collaborate with the scientific community to create applications.

Cambridge Journals Online

The redesigned Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) has now been launched.

Improvements have been made to the CJO site in consultation with the academic and library communities in four key areas: Appearance, Navigation, Ease of Use and Consistency.

Further new developments include individual journal homepages and the ability to post comments on FirstView articles, which are published online ahead of print.

To check out the new site go to: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/login;jsessionid=DB311529E9F69E0806F6C67F6AD28CF8.tomcat1

This update is the first of three new functionality releases planned by CJO each year. Additional new improvements will be implemented in the next CJO release scheduled for December. Future planned improvements to the site include the introduction of faceted searching across CJO and Cambridge Books Online and the launch of CJOmobile (CJOm), optimized for smart phones and offering increased speed and convenience.

Wednesday 8 September 2010

Introducing LibrarySearch - a new way to access University of Cambridge library collections

The University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the beta launch of its new LibrarySearch service to the public.

The new unified approach allows for quick and intuitive searching of the print and electronic collections of the libraries of the university and the DSpace@Cambridge digital repository, from one place.

The service also has a host of new features, including RSS feeds for results, an optional word cloud to navigate related terms, and MyDiscoveries, a tool for storing, tagging and sharing references. It will eventually replace the Universal Catalogue search function on Newton.


Searches can be limited to a specific library, narrowed down further through intuitive facets such as subject or publication date, or expanded into online databases such as JSTOR, Scopus and Web of Knowledge.

LibrarySearch is still undergoing development based on feedback from readers.

For those who prefer a traditional library catalogue interface, the individual Newton catalogues will still remain available.

Try LibrarySearch for yourself at http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk/or find out more on our information page at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/searchinfo/