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Cambridge University Press opens up digital platform

13.07.11 | Lisa Campbell

Cambridge University Press has launched a digital content platform for libraries which it says will become "one of the largest and most significant repositories of digital academic material in the world.”

From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide institutions with e-books and "related database products” from publishers across the world. It is based on Cambridge Books Online, which offers access to front and backlist PDF titles.

So far the publishers signed up to University Publishing Online are Liverpool University Press, Boydell & Brewer, the Mathematical Association of America and Foundation Books, based in India. CUP said it would reveal further partners in coming weeks.

Dr Andrew Brown, director of academic publishing at Cambridge University Press, said: "A key concept of University Publishing Online is to preserve the individual identity of each of its publishing partners, as every academic press makes a unique contribution to the world of scholarship through its own particular process of selecting, editing and presenting material.

"By respecting these differences, while offering the contributions of all on a single platform with a highly sophisticated common search engine, University Publishing Online will set new standards for the integration of key academic content with a user-friendly interface and customer-oriented purchasing models of unrivalled flexibility.”

Libraries can acquire a wide range of subject-based collections or can choose to make an individually customised selection of titles from the 12,000 on offer currently

University Publishing Online customers will be able to buy content once and then own continuing access or subscribe annually.

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By Anonymousse

I know CUP makes a lot of it's heritage as a publisher, but assume that the launch is really October 2011?

Wed, 13/07/2011 - 13:20

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By G

Yes, that should read 2011.

Thanks

Wed, 13/07/2011 - 13:34

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By Katie Allen

Thanks, I've edited the mistake...

Wed, 13/07/2011 - 13:59

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By dave

"...set new standards for the integration of key academic content with a user-friendly interface and customer-oriented purchasing models of unrivalled flexibility" This sentence has so many elements of the emperor's new clothes. Maybe I should wait to see exactly how it looks. But surely a commercial enterprise dedicated to this channel will be better placed to deliver new standards in a user-friendly customer oriented purchasing models with unrivalled flexibility? They have set a new standard for ramming nonsense-speak into one sentence though.

Wed, 13/07/2011 - 15:39