News
March 2012: Latest Companions Update
As part of the March 2012 Companions update, six new titles have been added to the Complete Companions as part of the March 2012 update, taking the total number of volumes included in the collection to 480. Four titles have been added to the Companions to Literature and Classics bringing the total number of volumes to 261 and two titles have been added to the Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture bringing the total number of volumes to 162. This month there were no titles available to upload into the Music collection.
The new additions are as follows:
The Companions to Literature and Classics
- The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 , Edited by John N. Duvall
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature , Edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
- The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing , Edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen
- The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon , Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale
The Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
- The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism, Edited by Steven Crowell
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies, Edited by Robert A. Orsi
The Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
All titles listed above have also been added to the Complete Companions Collection.
Title Listings
Full lists of the current titles included in the Cambridge Companions Complete Collection, the Companions to Literature and Classics, the Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture, and the Companions to Music are available for download in Excel and PDF below. The lists are updated as new titles are added to the relevant collections.
- Cambridge Companions Complete Collection (PDF)
- Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (PDF)
- Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (PDF)
- Cambridge Companions to Music (PDF)
- Cambridge Companions Complete Collection (Microsoft Excel format)
- Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (Microsoft Excel format)
- Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (Microsoft Excel format)
- Cambridge Companions to Music (Microsoft Excel format)
March 2012: MARC News
MARC records for the January 2012 update are now available. Please visit Subscriber Services to download the latest batch of MARC records for Cambridge Collection titles.
Records for the March 2012 batch will be available shortly.
January 2012: Latest Companions Update
As part of the January 2012 Companions update, two new titles have been added to the Complete Companions as part of the January 2012 update, taking the total number of volumes included in the collection to 474. One title has been added to the Companions to Literature and Classics bringing the total number of volumes to 257 and one title has been added to the Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture bringing the total number of volumes to 160. This month there were no titles available to upload into the Music collection.
The new additions are as follows:
The Companions to Literature and Classics
- The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa, Edited by Efrain Kristal and John King
The Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics, Edited by Robin Gill
The Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Both titles listed above have also been added to the Complete Companions Collection.
January 2012: MARC News
MARC records for the November 2011 update are now available. Please visit Subscriber Services to download the latest batch of MARC records for Cambridge Collection titles.
Records for the January 2012 batch will be available shortly.
Important note regarding MARC record style update:
A new style of ebook cataloguing was recently adopted by the British Library and, as a result of this, the MARC records now available for the November 2011 Companions update (and all future updates) will reflect this new style. Our MARC record supplier has provided us with the following information to clarify these changes to our customers:
MARC records for the November 2011 Companions update (and all future records) will be created using the provider-neutral style proposed by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging in the US, working very closely with OCLC and Library of Congress. This means that there will be slight changes to the style of these records.
The provider-neutral model uses print version records wherever available and modifies these to make them ebooks. The main changes consist of the following:
- The physical description will always say 'online resource', often with the pagination of the physical format if relevant (i.e. from a PDF).
- There is now no need for system requirements such as World Wide Web, HTML unless the access is something really unusual.
- The tag giving restriction on access will no longer appear – that should be added by the individual library as appropriate.
- Most important as it involves a different tag - the details of where the title has been taken from (i.e. title from title page) now appear in tag 588 instead of tag 500.
- Extra details of the print version will appear in the 776 tag and any platform details, such as Cambridge Companions Online, will start the 856 tag with a $3 subfield marker.
All MARC records that we provided for uploads prior to November 2011 have not be changed but are still valid records as they stand.
To find out more about the provider-neutral style, please refer to the Provider-Neutral E-Monograph MARC Record Guide 2011
This document includes the following:
- A full list of general characteristics of the new style
- Recommendations for best use of Provider-Neutral records in Libraries
- Examples and FAQS
January update on DOI News: We reported in December 2011 that the DOI for The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (uploaded September 2011) was inactive and was due to be fixed by Crossref. This has now been fixed (the DOI that we provided for this title is now active).
December 2011: DOI News
Invalid DOI links
It recently came to our attention that there are six invalid DOI links within our Cambridge Companion MARC records files. These invalid links were showing error messages, rather than leading the user to the site. These links have now been corrected in all available MARC downloads from this site. The affected titles, and the dates that they were uploaded, are listed below:
January 2011
- The Cambridge companion to Jung
- The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights
- The Cambridge companion to Rousseau
- The Cambridge companion to Spenser
May 2011
- The Cambridge companion to Jane Austen
October 2011
- The Cambridge companion to Bach
The links for the titles above (DOI and main site links) have been corrected in all files on this site (MARC records and title lists) but if you would like to download MARC files for only the six titles mentioned above, you can do so here .
We apologise for the inconvenience caused by the above and have introduced an extra proofing stage to the upload process to ensure this does not happen again for any future uploads.
Please note that unfortunately the DOI link for the following title is still showing as inactive, even though it is correct, and this is being manually rectified by Crossref. Once we receive confirmation from them that it has been corrected we will add a note to this page to confirm. The main site URL still works for this title and this can be found within its MARC file:
November 2011: MARC News
September Companions MARC records now available, including the Music collection records. Please visit Subscriber Services to download the latest batch of MARC records for Cambridge Collection titles.
September 2011: Latest Companions Update
Music Collection now available
Available for the first time online, The Cambridge Companions to Music provide clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics, written with the student, the performer and the music lover in mind. Now easily accessible and fully cross-searchable, each volume provides a carefully structured series of specially-commissioned essays by leading authorities offering comprehensive coverage and indispensable reference material as well as absorbing reading matter.
Latest Companions Update: November 2011
5 new titles have been added to the Complete Companions as part of the September 2011 update, taking the total number of volumes included in the collection to 472. 3 titles have been added to the Companions to Literature and Classics bringing the total number of volumes to 256, 1 title has been added to the Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture collection bringing the total to 159 and 1 title has been added as part of the new collection: Companions to Music, bringing the total to 57 titles.
The new additions are as follows:
The Companions to Literature and Classics
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, Edited by Kerry Larson
- The Cambridge Companion to H.D. , Edited by Nephie J. Christodoulides and Polina Mackay
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (2nd Ed), Edited by Richard Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher
The Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
- The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi, Edited by Michael J. P. Robson
The Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to the Grand Opera, Edited by David Charlton
The Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
All 5 titles above have also been added to the Complete Companions Collection.
Latest Shakespeare Survey Update
The latest issue of Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst, has been added as part of the latest update, taking the total number of volumes included in the collection to 64.
Title Listing
A full list of the current volumes included in Shakespeare Survey Online is available for download in Excel and PDF below. The list is updated as new volumes are added.
- Shakespeare Survey (PDF)
- Shakespeare Survey (Microsoft Excel format)
Cambridge Collections Online: A new online resource
Cambridge Companions Online, the first product to be launched within the Cambridge Collections Online platform, is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 400 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companions series. Covering literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies, and Music, the collection complements the Cambridge Companions book series - an established favourite with students and scholars - by providing search, browse and bookmark functionality. Over 3,000 essays are already included in the collection, with more set to be added as new volumes are published.
Subscriptions to the whole collection, or to two smaller subject-based collections are available to both academic and specialist libraries. Pricing is dependent on the number of Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) per institution. No restriction is placed on usage during the course of the subscription. Librarians will be able to utilise a host of resources throughout, including downloadable MARC21 records, comprehensive usage statistics and remote user access.
The Complete Companions Collection is also available on a subscription basis to individuals, whilst all users worldwide are welcome to browse, search and view book and chapter extracts freely.
We will regularly post information about new additions to the Collections (both titles and features) on this page. If you would like to be kept informed, please bookmark and revisit this page.
New features: November 2008
A small number of improvements and enhancements have now been made to Cambridge Collections Online. COUNTER compliant usage statistics are now available for Cambridge Companions Online, Shakespeare Survey Online and Econometric Society Monographs.
Other exciting features include a general performance upgrade across the site. This includes, faster browsing and searching; new hit-highlighting toggles on the chapter page; search results pagination controls and inline PDF viewing for all browsers. Customers will also be authenticated when they access any page on the site, meaning they can link directly to any volume or chapter with ease.
For more information about the new products, please see About Cambridge Collections Online.
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