An extensive collection of leading scholarly content across a diverse range of topics, giving access to authoritative thinking and research.
Content description
This extensive collection of leading scholarly content covers a diverse range of topics, guaranteeing access to the most authoritative thinking and research and making this comprehensive compendium a key resource for the study of history.
There are generally two types of Cambridge Histories: those devoted mainly to political and economic history (such as The Cambridge History of China); and those devoted to subjects (such as The Cambridge History of Renaissance Political Thought).
All Cambridge Histories published since the 1960’s are included in the product.
http://histories.cambridge.org/uid=10159/browse
- 258 Titles
- 200,000 pages of Scholarly information
- 15 different subject areas
- Authoritative content, well known, trusted and used by librarian and researchers alike.
- Unique & dynamic content
Main subject areas
American History; British History; Economic History; General History; History of Science; History of the book; Language and Linguistics; Literary Studies; Music; Philosophy; Political and Social Theory; Regional History; Religious Studies; Theatre Studies and the performing arts; Warfare.
Academic level
Predominantly Undergraduate and Postgraduate, although can be used by students of all levels.
Date range
Cambridge Histories Online covers the entirety of history from the origins of civilisation to the present.
Updates
New Cambridge Histories titles will be added to the collection as close to the print publication date as possible.
Publisher's selection policy
Cambridge Histories Online is made up of titles within the Cambridge Histories Series that have been published since 1960. Future additions to the site will be made up of new titles to the series which will be added where electronic rights allow.
All perspective additions to the Cambridge Histories 'series' are subjected to rigorous review by leading experts in the field and are approved for publication by the Press Syndicate, CUP’s governing body, which is made up of senior figures from across the University.
Comparable resources
Cambridge Histories Online content is unique and is exclusive to Cambridge University Press.
Other publishers produce similar products that have some over lap with some areas covered within Cambridge Histories Online.
- Cengage Gale: various resources including 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals, Iraq 1914-1974, Arab Israeli Relations 1917-1970, Times Digital Archive.
- The National Archives.
- ProQuest: various resources including 18th, 19th & 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Digital National Security Archive, Periodicals Index & Archive Online, British Policy Overseas.
- EBSCO: various resources including Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies, Political Science Complete, History Reference Online International Edition.
Cost
Cambridge Histories Online is offered as a one-off outright purchase.
Costs for Higher Education
Annual access fee: £780.
Costs for Further Education
Annual access fee: £450.
Notes
The term of this agreement is 4 years. It expires 30 September 2013. The Access Fee for one year shall be a peppercorn payable by the Institution only if demanded. Annual access fee thereafter: as above.
All prices are exclusive of VAT.
How does JISC Banding and Charging work?
Subscription
To access the licence, and for instructions on how to subscribe, please see the subscription page.
The agreement complies with the terms of the JISC Model Licence.
For further details of the JISC Model Licence please refer to the Guide to the JISC Model Licence.
Functionality and standards compliance
Full text linking
- Extensive bibliographic reference functionality.
- Fully referenced content with all references displayed.
- OpenURL compliant and linked online through CrossRef.
Federated searching
Cambridge Histories Online does not support federated searching.
MARC records
Cambridge Histories Online provides e-MARC records free of charge. Institutions may download a MARC21 format file (.mrc) containing records of all titles contained within each collection from our Subscriber Services page. We will add a new file for each upload of new content as and when it is published. MARC21 records may also be downloaded directly from Datashop.
Please note that institutions will require MARC record reader software such as MarcEdit to add these files to your library system.
Metadata standards
N/A.
Search options
Cambridge Histories Online offers two search options: Quick Search (allowing you to search from any page on the site) and Advanced Search, which gives you the option of constructing a more complex search query.
Standard boolean searching is supported, as is multiple boolean, proximity and stemming (common root) searching.
Within the content, browsing by title, author and chapter is supported, and within each book, users can browse the table of contents.
Post-search options
Within My Histories you may view recent searches as well as save, bookmark and share within work groups.
Cambridge Histories Online follows the Modern Language Association (MLA) format for citation examples.
Cambridge Histories Online also features extensive bibliographic reference functionality; fully referenced content with all references displayed, OpenURL compliant and linked online through CrossRef.
Usage statistics
Cambridge Histories Online offers COUNTER compliant and real time on demand usage statistics, Which can be downloaded in Excel or CSV format, or view on screen in HTML, or e-mail to a recipient.
Real time and emailed usage statistics can be shown by defined time period.
Statistics show the number of sessions, total and average session times, average pages per session, full content downloads, numbers of hits, searches and browses and turnaway statistics.
Authentication
Access to Cambridge Histories Online is available via ATHENS authentication, IP recognition or Username and password.
Personalisation of the online resource
Cambridge Histories Online has a unique personalisation feature called My Histories which is available to all users with full access to the site.
It allows access to your own password protected pages within Cambridge Histories Online where users may re-run recent and saved searches; bookmark chapters of particular interest and create their own individual notes on each bookmarked item. They can also create separate workgroups which will enable the sharing of information (bookmarks, searches, notes, external links and announcements) with other users within the My Histories pages.
Users can also control how they view the user interface. For example, they can control how many hits they want to view per page. Hit term highlighting can also be switched on or off.
Accessibility
All Cambridge University Press websites aim to meet the AA standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), version 1: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php
Many features of our online publications are at the AAA level.
Other standards, guidelines and resources observed during the development of our sites include the following:
- US government Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.
- UK Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, guidelines from the office of the e-Envoy.
- UK HE TechDis Web Accessibility and Usability Resource.
- University of Cambridge web design accessibility guidelines.
- BBC Web Development Guidelines.
Library support information