Welcome to our Cambridge Core catalogue for librarians
Find out more about Cambridge Core and our products and collections, as well as an overview of available purchase models.
Since launch the key developments deployed on the platform have been:
Implementation of Inbound OpenURLs
COUNTER 5.1 reports
Improved MARC Records and KBART lists
Cambridge Core Share – the responsible social sharing tool for researchers and academics
Improved HTML content on landing page experience for all content
400+ Journals
Cambridge Core hosts: 50,000+ ebooks
Key features
In addition to the functionality highlighted, Cambridge Core also offers a variety of important tools for librarians including:
Reporting
Download your ebook and journal reports in one convenient location
Turnaway reports Accessibility Security
Turnaway reports are captured and retrievable through your administrator Cambridge Core account, or are available on request
Cambridge Core is committed to providing a platform that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability, and achieved WCAG 2.2 AA (as of June 2025)
Cambridge Core is secure and includes the functionality to protect customers’ data
Open research from Cambridge
Together, we are building an open future.
The reach and impact of open research inspires discovery, sparks enquiry and aids understanding of global challenges. It is at the heart of delivering our mission and that of our University. The need for increased access, reach, and influence inspires us to work with you, embracing new solutions to unlock the potential of research through greater collaboration, transparency, and accessibility.
Cambridge Open Access
Open access has become an important way to make research findings freely available for anyone to access and view. We support both gold and green OA in our books and journals programme.
• In 2024, 68 percent of the journal research articles we published were open access
• Open access agreements at more than 2,500 institutions in over 30 countries
• We have published 500 open access books
We are transforming the vast majority of research publishing in our journals to open access by 2025; accelerating the publication of early research; finding new ways to publish books open access; and pioneering new publishing models and policies.
cambridge.org/openaccess
Flip it Open
Flip it Open is a programme that aims to sustainably fund open access to over 100 book titles through existing purchasing habits. Once the titles meet a set revenue threshold, we have committed to making them available as open access ebooks on Cambridge Core. As an institutional library, you can purchase any of the titles in the programme directly from the Press, via your usual library supplier, through an EBA or a Frontlist order.
cambridge.org/FiO
Cambridge Core Share
Cambridge Core Share is our article sharing service, enabling authors and readers to easily generate a link to an online, read-only journal article. This link can be shared online to allow anyone to read the final published version of the article without a paywall or other barrier.
cambridge.org/coreshare
cambridge.org/openresearch
Purchase models
Ebook and journal purchasing models on Cambridge Core
Ebook purchasing models
Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA)
Under an Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) model, institutions are given access to an extensive online collection of ebooks from Cambridge University Press and our publishing partners, before they decide which ebooks to purchase in perpetuity. We supply title list and cataloguer-enhanced MARC records before the start of the EBA and update them at the beginning of each month. The evidence to support decision making is supplied in the form of usage reports, indicating which titles are the most popular within the institution during the period.
Subject Collection Building
Subject collections are available on Cambridge Core, covering more than 30 areas of study. Collections can be customised according to your subject interest. Also available are our Hot Topics, a series of bespoke ebook collections which span across a range of subjects to reflect the latest research trends.
Cambridge Frontlist
Advance Ordering is available for forthcoming titles. You can either purchase the complete list of our forthcoming new titles or you can specify custom subject areas with titles being acquired automatically as they become available (see page 5 for more details).
Pick-and-choose
All ebooks on Cambridge Core can be purchased on a title-by-title basis, to enable you to buy titles when you need them and build your own bespoke collections.
Librarian Self-service
Librarians can instantly purchase titles directly via Cambridge Core using the Self-service ‘add to basket’ functionality. To find out if this service is available in your territory, or to set this up, please contact your sales representative.
Journal and journal archive purchasing models
Transformative Agreements
Transformative agreements provide an opportunity for institutions to transform their publishing output to gold open access in a sustainable manner. Participating institutions are granted subscription access to journals included in their collection. Corresponding authors at participating institutions can then use an APC discount or waiver when publishing in hybrid and/or gold OA journals also in their collection. Over time, as more journals transition to gold OA, our customers will be able to publish more gold OA articles as a result of this agreement. This naturally transitions revenue away from reading and towards publishing. Hence these deals are known as transformative; they transition both spend and output to gold OA.
Also known as: Read & Publish, OA Publishing Agreement
Subject collections
Various journal titles are available in a Full Package; a Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Package; a Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) Package; or in smaller subject-based packages. Individual journals may be omitted from some packages if required. We also offer a number of flexible online journals packages.
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive
The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (CJDA) is available with perpetual access for a one-time fee, or through annual lease. Collections can be tailored to your individual requirements and range from the complete archive right through to individual journal archives. You can also use EBA to purchase your most popular archives*.
Product and pricing options
Ebooks
(including partner publisher titles)
Elements
Journals
Cambridge Aspire (textbooks)
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive
Cambridge Histories
Cambridge Companions
Cambridge Shakespeare
Shakespeare Survey
Cambridge Law Reports
Cambridge Library Collection
Cambridge Handbooks
• Pick-and-choose on a title-by-title basis
Customised subject collections
• Select defined subjects of interest or create your own collections
• Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA)
Cambridge Frontlist
Librarian Self-service
• Site licence, multi-site licence and consortia sales available as well as individual journal subscriptions
• Visit cambridge.org/core/services/librarians or use the contact details on the back of this catalogue
Annual access provided on either a title-by-title basis or by collection
Titles can be matched against institution’s reading lists
• One-time purchase of full collection or HSS, STM and Medicine sub-collections. Smaller subject collections and individual journal archives also available
For a price quote tailored for your institution please contact us using the details on the back of this catalogue
• Please visit cambridge.org/core-cjda for more information
• Annual top-up collections also available Smaller sub sets also available
• Purchase perpetual access to the full collection, or smaller subject collections via a one-time fee
• Title-by-title purchasing
Annual collection updates in that year
• Annual lease option
• Available via Cambridge Shakespeare lease.
• Perpetual purchase of past volumes
Combined print and online bundle option also available
• Purchase under existing ebook models or annual lease Orlando
Stahl Online
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics
High-Risk Pregnancy
* Please note, this is only available as part of an EBA in certain regions. For more information, please contact your usual Cambridge representative, or use the details on the back of this catalogue.
Ebooks
Over 50,000 monographs and coursebooks are available for institutional purchase on Cambridge Core. Cambridge publish around 1,500 new titles on average each year and ebooks are simultaneously added alongside print publication.
Partner Publishing
Ebook purchasing options
We offer a number of purchasing options for our ebook content including:
• Pick-and-choose on a title-by-title basis
• Build your own customised collection
• Evidence Based Acquisition plus more (see page 4 for more details)
Key features
• Simultaneous publication online alongside the print edition
• Free MARC records for easy cataloguing
• Trust-based Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• Unlimited user concurrency
Cambridge Frontlist
Cambridge Frontlist offers libraries immediate access and perpetual ownership to our annual portfolio of books, with predictable and advantageous pricing. It includes Cambridge Elements and Cambridge Handbooks, alongside our Trade publishing titles, comprised of ambitious, impactful non-fiction books. Frontlist can be purchased by HSS, STM, Full, or individual subject collections.
We are pleased to be able to provide access to ebooks from the worldrenowned publishing programmes of our partner presses via Cambridge Core. These titles cover subjects from all disciplines across the fields of science, technology and medicine, as well as the humanities and social sciences. Making a unique contribution to the world of scholarship, our ebook partner publishing programme sets new standards for the integration of key academic content. Access to these partner publisher titles through Cambridge Core is available to libraries worldwide under a number of attractive and flexible models, ensuring instant access to the best research available. Cambridge Core features a page for each partner publisher, to allow you to explore their titles.
Partner Publishers:
• Agenda Publishing
• Anthem Press
• Boydell & Brewer
• Bristol University Press
• Edinburgh University Press
• Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
• Facet Publishing
• Foundation Books
• Intersentia
• Unisa Press
• The University of Adelaide Press
• Wits University Press
Cambridge Aspire from Cambridge University Press offers the highest quality content and resources from leading authors for instructors and students, supporting successful teaching and learning journeys in today’s rapidly changing educational environment.
Key features
• Innovative, fully integrated digital website that provides users with easy, affordable access to textbooks, together with all available supplementary teaching and learning materials
• Textbooks cover many subjects across Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Nursing, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences
• New editions are available on publication, ensuring users can access current and up-to-date learning materials. Institutions will have the option to upgrade to the new version either immediately, or before the next academic term
• Users can bookmark, annotate and highlight text, and navigate through personalised copies in a way that makes sense to them
• Content will automatically resize to display on mobile devices and can be read both on and offline using our e-reader app, Cambridge Spiral
• Easy navigation to needed content through predictive search for both title keywords and author names. Users can carry out full text search within the eTextbook, using Cambridge Spiral
• Users can generate citations in a variety of styles, including APA and Chicago, and download to a number of formats including BibTeX and Word, or export to Mendeley, RefWorks or EasyBib
• LMS integration is fully available for Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, and Brightspace D2L
Journals Journals Digital Archive 1770 – 2020
We publish over 400 academic journals in science, technology, medicine, the humanities, and the social sciences.
Knowledge is no longer shelved
Many of these titles are the leading journals in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive collections of research available today. For any collection you subscribe to, you will gain perpetual access to content from the years in which you subscribe. Cambridge journals are available in online packages for companies, institutions, and consortia worldwide, for single or multiple sites.
Packages include:
• Full
• Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
• Science, Technology and Medicine (STM)
• Subject Area Packages including:
– Agriculture
– Biological Sciences
– Business
– Ecology and Conservation
– Language and Linguistics
– Philosophy and Religion
– Physical Sciences
– Politics and Economics
– Science and Technology
Since the CambridgeJournalsDigital Archive(CJDA) was launched in 2009, over 1 million articles have been digitised, including content dating back to 1770.
The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive now contains over 1 million articles including the extensive backfiles of nearly 350 leading journals published by Cambridge University Press and forms a vital record of eminent research.
Since the launch of Cambridge Core we have been capturing turnaway data for journal archives to help you see which archives are popular amongst your researchers. Please contact your sales representative for a list of popular archive turnaways.
• Nearly 350 Cambridge journals backfiles
• From Volume 1, Issue 1
• 250 years of world-class research
Collections to suit every customer
The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive is available in multiple collections, as individual journal archives or in custom packages.
• Individual title archives
• Subject and bespoke archive collections
• Cambridge Journals Complete Digital Archive
• Cambridge Journals Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Digital Archive
• Cambridge Journals Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) Digital Archive
Cambridge Histories
Cambridge Histories are a globally respected series of history books, authored by distinguished scholars. They offer a contextualized overview, suggesting how events are related to one another and presenting history as a continuous and evolutionary process. Because they offer a big picture perspective in each subject area, Cambridge Histories are an excellent place to begin research.
Subject overview
Subjects range widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music, and arts. Each volume includes authoritative narrative accounts by specialists and extensive bibliographic referencing.
Available sub-collections
• American history
• Ancient history and classical studies
• Asian history
• British and European history
• Global History
• Literature
• Middle East and African studies
• Music and theatre
• Philosophy and political thought
• Religion
Purchase models to suit your needs
• Collections purchasing
Purchase perpetual access to the full Cambridge Histories collection, or smaller thematic or regional collections via a one-time fee
• Title-by-title selection
Individual titles are available to buy on a title-by-title basis
• Annual collection updates
Add to your Cambridge Histories collection with all new titles added in a specific year
• Print purchase is also available
Highlights
Cambridge Companions
Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.
Cambridge Core hosts the online collection of the printed series and includes over 780 Companions titles, over 4,000 essays, plus bibliographies and further reading.
The first two titles in the Companions series were the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and the Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, which were both published in 1986 and have been updated with new editions. Since then, over 780 titles have been published with the intention not only to offer a comprehensive overview of their chosen topic, but to display and provoke lively and controversial debate.
Subjects include
• Literature
• Classics
• Philosophy
• Religion and culture
• Music
Highlights
Cambridge Elements
An innovative concept in academic publishing Cambridge Elements combine the best features of books and journals to create a quick, concise publishing solution for researchers and readers in the fields of academic publishing and scholarly communication. They consist of original, succinct, authoritative, and peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific research, organised into focused series edited by leading scholars, and provide comprehensive coverage of the key topics in disciplines spanning the arts and sciences. In 2025 we published our 2000th Element.
Key features
• Rapidly published and disseminated, ensuring the most up-to-date information
• Authoritative, written by leading scholars and rigorously peer-reviewed
• Published in all subjects, from philosophy and economics to statistics and engineering, addressing cutting edge research and current debates.
• Structured in focused series, edited by senior figures in each discipline
• Short format
• Available in online, onscreen, and print versions
Highlights
Cambridge Shakespeare: The Works and Worlds of Shakespeare Online
CambridgeShakespeare hosts a wealth of prize-winning content from Cambridge University Press online, with integrated playtexts and notes, reference materials and related multimedia resources.
Key Functionality:
• Full text search
• View and download in HTML and PDF formats
• Cross-referencing within and between Shakespeare’s works
The platform includes:
• The complete bestselling New Cambridge Shakespeare series
• The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos series
• The Shakespeare in Production series
• The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare; over 300 essays on Shakespeare and contexts
• The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide by Emma Smith, exclusive to Cambridge Shakespeare
• Multimedia resources for each work, curated by the Folger
• Shakespeare Library
• Access to the entire collection of the Shakespeare Survey, an
• annual yearbook showcasing the best international scholarship in
• Shakespeare studies and production.
• Elements in Shakespeare series
Availability
Cambridge Shakespeare is an annual lease product, with new editions released on publication at no additional cost.
Shakespeare Survey
Since 1948, Shakespeare Survey has been publishing the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespearean criticism. Shakespeare Survey is available as a collection on Cambridge Core, as one of the leading digital resources for Shakespearean study.
Highlights
Key features
• Distinguished and unique texts
• Chronologies, extensive bibliographies and guides to further reading
Publishing annually since 1948
Each volume is devoted to a theme, play, or group of plays, and also contains a selection of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances. The volumes are illustrated throughout with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. Each new annual edition is published simultaneously online and in print.
Availability
Shakespeare Survey is available via an annual lease model or as a one-off perpetual purchase in certain countries (please enquire), as well as part of a Cambridge Shakespeare annual lease.
Cambridge Law Reports
Cambridge Law Reports (CLR) offers fast and easy access to key reports, online ahead of print, including the content of the leading International Law Reports series and the ICSID Reports. It offers extensive search options, a unique browse feature to quickly find required content and a personal folder for saving key cases and searches.
Exclusive CLR features
• Browse by courts, judge and keyword
• Functionality to export citations
• Site responds to your preferred device, including smartphones
• Easy-to-view access details
• New cases highlighted on the homepage
Features for librarians
• ATHENS and Shibboleth compatible
• In-house and OCLC MARC records available
• COUNTER reports available
• Technical support, on-site help, FAQs and user statistics
• Promotional resources and user guides available
Availability
Access to CLR is available via a number of purchase and lease options. Purchase the full collection, perpetual access to past volumes or lease the entire collection without ownership. Combined print and online bundle options are also available.
Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online features Jonson’s complete works, together with an extensive critical and documentary archive. With over three times as much content as the print edition, extensive viewing, search and comparison tools, it is a key resource for anyone studying literature.
Key features
• Extensive resources: Includes plays, court masques and entertainments, poems, prose works and letters
• Functionality to compare and contrast the texts: Digital comparison tool allows original and new interpretations of transcriptions to be viewed side by side
• Three times as much content as print edition: Provides extensive contextual and critical material, including analytical essays, documentary records, music sources, and a complete performance archive
• Innovative digital content: Explore an interactive timeline, and access audio files of relevant Renaissance music
• Both old and modern spelling
• Search across works, essays, records and reference collections: Also refine search by year, content type and other parameters
Availability
Cambridge University Press recently took the decision to make the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online freely available to all, making the complete writings of Shakespeare’s primary rival accessible to new audiences around the world.
Unique features
Includes newly discovered materials not available elsewhere, including:
• Textual essays accompanying the works
• Performance calendar (the most detailed consolidated listing on Jonson’s plays ever compiled)
• Masque records which contain transcripts of all contextual information on court masques
• Life records area and music edition
• High quality reproduced images
Cambridge Library Collection 1740 –1940
A collection of out-of-copyright and rare books from the Cambridge University Library and other world-class institutions that have been digitally scanned, made available online, and reprinted in paperback.
The Collection publishes across the full range of academic subjects and has particular strengths in colonial and military/naval history, maritime and polar exploration, classics, ancient history, linguistics, and the history of science and mathematics.
Cambridge Handbooks
Genuinely broad in scope, each handbook in this series provides a complete state-of-the-field overview of a major sub-discipline within language study and psychological science research.
Grouped into broad thematic areas, the chapters in each volume encompass the most important issues and topics within each subject, offering a coherent picture of the latest theories and findings. Together, the volumes will build into an integrated overview of the discipline in its entirety.
Availability
Cambridge Handbooks are available to buy via the following methods
• A complete collection
• Smaller sub-collections
• Title-by-title
• Through our usual ebook institutional purchase models including Evidence Based Acquisition
• Annual lease
Orlando
Orlando is an online textbase providing a wealth of biographical and critical information about British women writers, with related entries on literary and historical events, male writers, and non- British women writers.
Key features
• A unique resource providing previously unavailable material
• Created and maintained by experts in the field
• Updated twice a year with new and revised content
• Powerful search options with new dynamic search interface requiring less upfront knowledge of the tagset
• Detailed tagging enables multiple lines of enquiry
The resource includes
• Over 1,300 British women writers
• More than 33,000 names
• 25,000+ cited works
• Over 8 million words of text
• Authors’ lives
• Writing careers
• Contextual material
• Timelines
• Internal links
• Bibliographies
Orlando is updated at regular intervals with new information relating to past and present writers and events. Thanks to meticulous tagging, plus powerful search and analysis tools, it offers multiple perspectives on centuries of women’s writing.
Availability
Orlando is available via an annual lease model. For more information or pricing, please get in touch with your usual Cambridge representative, or use the contact information on the back of this catalogue.
Stahl Online
Stahl Online is a one-stop shop, covering everything a mental health professional or teacher will ever need to know about neuropsychopharmacology. Comprehensive and regularly updated, Stahl Online provides full access to the entire current portfolio of books by Dr Stephen M. Stahl.
Key features
• Streamlined navigation and search functionality
• Easy view options for images in the content (via the ‘Images’ tab)
• Improved reading experience with Illustrated Guides made available as PDF books
• Fully searchable allowing practitioners to find prescribing information and patient guidance materials easily and instantly
Stahl Online is home to Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide, the world’s best-selling formulary in psychopharmacology, and the long established preeminent source in its field, Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology. Users will also have access to the Drug Lookup tool, which links directly to the Prescriber’s Guide, allowing practitioners to easily navigate through an ever expanding list of psychotropic drugs and the usages of existing medication.
Availability
Stahl Online is available via an annual lease with an anytime start. For more information or pricing, please get in touch with your usual Cambridge representative, or use the contact information on the back of this catalogue
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online (MFMO) is the perfect companion for any course in fluid mechanics or dynamics.
This product combines the original content from the prize-winning DVD with an interface optimized for online access. Simulations have been rebuilt and movies remastered so they run without plug-ins. The text was Mathjax-enabled for the best learning experience online.
Featuring dozens of interactive demonstrations and animations, 20 virtual labs and simulations, and more than 800 movies, MFMO will benefit teachers and students taking fluid mechanics courses, across engineering, science and mathematics.
Availability
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online is an annual lease product.
High-Risk Pregnancy: Management Options
High-Risk Pregnancy: Management Options is the leading authority on the evidence-based management of highrisk pregnancy.
Published by Cambridge and reviewed by experts in the field, High-Risk Pregnancy: Management Options provides users with up-to-date national and international guidelines and good practices. It offers practical answers to the questions: What are the risks of this problem in pregnancy; How do I manage a patient with this problem; How do I perform this procedure?
Every section features a “Summary of Management Options” box, including a simplified evidence-based scoring system for each management strategy proposed: giving users a choice on which option to choose.
It also includes multimedia features, including videoclips and links to other websites and reference abstracts - making learning dynamic.
Key features
• High-resolution pop-up versions of each image, allowing users to view and examine images in detail
• Hyperlinked in-book references and index
• Optimised for reading on mobile, computer and tablet
