Cambridge University Press

CUP

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Year Joined PERii
2006http://www.inasp.info/wsb_admin/contentPublishers.php

Resource Name
Cambridge Journals Online (CJO)

Resource Type
Online Journals Database

Access URL
http://journals.cambridge.org

Low bandwidth site
http://jnls.cup.org/home.do

Title List

Document 2012 title list (59kb)
Document 2012 title list (105kb)

Content Overview
Cambridge Journals Full Package which includes 230 journal titles.

Subject Strengths

  • Politics
  • Linguistics
  • Social Science
  • Humanities
  • Law
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Medicine

Service Strengths

  • CUP is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge.
  • The University of Cambridge is world famous for excellence in original research, (e.g. the discovery of the structure of DNA), and has won 81 Nobel Prizes, more than any other institution.
  • CUP is the oldest printing and publishing house in the world and is a registered not-for-profit educational charity.
  • Full text of 230 CUP Online Journals plus two free websites available
  • Free detailed abstracts, table of contents and email alerts for all users
  • Access to full-text of current and archived articles for subscribers.
  • Efficient online search capabilities.
  • HTML and PDF articles for easy displaying, printing and downloading
  • Reference linking to Cross Ref and Medline.
  • Usage statistics available to institution and country administrators.
  • Continuing access to journals from the subscription period.
  • OAI PMH, Metalib and SFX compatibility. 
  • Atom and RSS feeds.
  • New search options have been developed, including:
  • Automatic matching of a journal title as a user types
  • Context-sensitive spelling corrections, suggests alternative spellings to words not matched in the initial search
  • Automatically saved searches with re-run and edit facilities
  • In the quick search box, search all content allows a search that is not just restricted to journal content, but includes the full CJO website.
  • CIDR IP Addresses - Administrators can now add CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) IP addresses.

Impact Factors
 Overall, Cambridge journals have also seen a robust aggregated average increase in Impact Factor of over 16% in 2011. These strong performances are consistent across our publishing programme. Cambridge's Humanities & Social Science journals saw an aggregated average increase in impact factor of 23.7%, performing well against an 8% average increase in the SSCI, and our Science, Technology & Medicine journals had an aggregated increase in impact factor of 10.6% in comparison to a 2% average increase in the Science Citation Index. There are fourteen Cambridge Journals receiving Impact Factors for the first time, including Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, International Review of the Red Cross, Journal of Computational Mathematics, Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Gender and World Trade Review. 

Usage Guides
Usage guides are available on the publisher's website.

Registration Information
Each developing country institution eligible for access (Document eligibility criteria 38kb) is required to register to use Cambridge University Press. If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the PERii registration system and select your country and institution.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition with username and password access for remote users.

Publisher Support/Help Contact
Institutions in Africa and Asia please contact  ngreen@cambridge.org
Institutions in Latin America please contact skaelin@cambridge.org

URL to General Publisher Site
www.cambridge.org

Further Information from your Country Coordinator
The details for your country coordinator can be found on your country page. Please use the Country Finder on the right-hand side of this page.

Information for Librarians

Administrative details
If you wish to register as an Account Administrator for your institution, please register your individual details on our website, choosing a username and password. Then inform Cambridge Customer Services of your username (email journals@cambridge.org), and this will be linked to your organisation's account. You will then be able to amend your organisation's profile and view the usage statistics once logged in.

Changes to IP Address
Users who are registered as administrators may make IP changes to their organisational account. In order to register as an administrator please follow the steps in the Information for Librarians>>Administrative details section.

A list of useful library downloads is available at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/stream?pageId=6568&level=2&menu=Librarians&pageId=3648

Platform
CUP

Publisher Newsletter Details
News and announcements

Usage Data Collection
Usage statistics are fully Counter compliant and can be viewed by those who have registered as the Account Administrator for their organisation or consortium. The usage statistic interface appears when Administrators log on. It is possible to have an Administrator at country-wide level and one for each institution. Country coordinators who have registered as the Administrator can view usage for all the institutions in their country. Please note that statistics are not available for institutions accessing via username and password, as without a valid IP range it is not possible to collect the data.

PERii FAQs
To find the answer to the most commonly asked questions about registration and access, see the Information resources FAQ page

PERii Help Documents
Please see the online help documents for further information about INASP policy on username and password access, registration, registration record keeping, downloading from publishers websites, access issues and statistics.

Publisher FAQs
Further information about CUP's programme for developing countries is available on the publisher's website.