Highlighting this post about the 2025 Princeton ebooks collection. More ebooks helping to support teaching, learning and research in STEMM.

An amazingly rich resource for HSS, hopefully lots of Cambridge students and researchers will be able to make good use of this reference collection.

Another new STEMM ebooks collection for Cambridge University users, amongst many others. Please check out the ebooks@Cambridge blog for a host of other renewals and new purchases.

Collections update: McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering renewal Cambridge University STEMM Libraries have renewed McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering collection for 25/26. AccessEngineering is an engineering reference and teaching platform that delivers inter…

The AccessEngineering collection from McGraw-Hill has been renewed. If you study Engineering (& other associated subjects) please check out further details on this blogpost; ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/c...

Fantastic #cataloguing role going with @openbookcollective.bsky.social 📚

Please could you share with your networks @emmabooth.bsky.social @cilipmdg.bsky.social 🤝

Shrink to Fit: Sharing practical and strategic approaches to managing library budget reductions. A NAG members webinar. 4 June 1330. https://nag.org.uk/event/shrink/

NAG Members webinar:
Shrink to Fit: Sharing practical and strategic approaches to managing library budget reductions with Sarah Thompson and Eleonora Gandolfi
Wednesday 4th June 13:30-14:30

NAG Institutional members only, no recording.
nag.org.uk/event/shrink/

Speaker at a podium by a slide titled Decision Making Guided by Principles, with logos from OAPEN, D2O, Open Book Collective, Thoth, Open Book Publishers, DOAB, and Opening the Future

Almost goosebumps to see Sarah Thompson from York University at the @oipassoc.bsky.social panel, talking about how proud they are to support initiatives they judge as in line with their principles. Including so many @copim.bsky.social things 🤩.

DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library “We can’t do science without these,” one researcher says of the hundreds of journals no longer accessible

Extraodinary! DOGE instructs a US national library to cancel subscriptions to all journals from 17 publishers (UP and societies) but not commercials! State controlling access to knowledge.
Of course the importance of #openaccess content is made even more transparent.
www.science.org/content/arti...

As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks? Proquest recently announced that it will be changing its business model to move away from print textbooks and monographs, solely to ebooks via a subscription-based model similar to a “Big Deal”. Ke…

"Another supplier moving into nebulous negotiation territory, rather than transparent title by title pricing, has been met with frustration and disappointment across the sector"

Helpful overview of the Clarivate situation from Kevin O’Donovan.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Introducing ProQuest Ebooks, the world’s largest scholarly ebook subscription | Clarivate Supporting our transformative subscription-based strategy with broad, simple access to trusted curated content

Oh-oh, see that Clarivate is upsetting us librarians with today’s bombshell announcement. 😳

clarivate.com/academia-gov...