{"id":1919,"date":"2021-03-10T23:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2021-03-10T23:44:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:44:49","slug":"announcing-the-purchase-of-the-cambridge-companions-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2021\/03\/10\/announcing-the-purchase-of-the-cambridge-companions-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the purchase of the Cambridge Companions Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have now purchased the full archive of <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www-cambridge-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca\/core\/what-we-publish\/collections\/cambridge-companions\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Companions<\/a>, <\/em>totalling 620 ebooks. The <em>Companions <\/em>are introductions &#8212; lively and accessible, yet authoritative &#8212; to various humanities topics such as writers, artists, forms, periods, and genres. Thanks to the quick work of the monographs cataloguing team, these ebooks are all visible in the catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.ualberta.ca\/catalog\/7457683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1922\" width=\"574\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM.png 956w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM-700x486.png 700w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM-520x361.png 520w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM-360x250.png 360w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM-250x174.png 250w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-10-at-4.26.12-PM-100x69.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we announced in our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1sNyl541HKWfS6BSQSeWguiU7Rll5qSKj3JocqtK0Dg0\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">November 2020 newsletter<\/a>, the CSU team recently ended our subscription to the <em>Cambridge Companions,<\/em> which was costing nearly $8,000\/year without giving us perpetual access to these books. At that time, we purchased the most heavily-used <em>Companions, <\/em>123 in total. However, with the end of the fiscal year approaching, we have found that we are also able to purchase the other 497 <em>Companions <\/em>to complete the archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will continue to purchase new <em>Companions <\/em>for the library collection in future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have now purchased the full archive of Cambridge Companions, totalling 620 ebooks. The Companions are introductions &#8212; lively and accessible, yet authoritative &#8212; to various humanities topics such as writers, artists, forms, periods, and genres. 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