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Monday, 15th September 2014
Cambridge University Press Launches Archive Editions Online
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Africa S. Hands
From the press release:
Over the past six months since the agreement was signed between Cambridge University Press and East View Information Services, over 1,000 volumes, nearly 600,000 pages and nearly 1,000 maps have been scanned and loaded onto the East View e-book platform. The product is immediately available for trials and for purchase.
The collection has been arranged by geography covering the Near and Middle East, Slavic and Balkan regions, and East and South East Asia. Additional geographic breakdowns within the Near and Middle East collection enable a research institution to focus on a particular country’s content, such as Syria or Qatar.
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Africa S. Hands is an independent librarian with a focus on helping professionals understand and utilise social media and search engines through one-on-one tutorials and small group workshops. Africa tweets (@africahands) on resources of interest to information and higher education professionals.
Africa can be reached at [email protected]
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