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There are three main ways to search the content of journals on Cambridge Journals Online: the Quick Search, the Cite Search and the Advanced Search.
The Quick Search box appears at the top right-hand side of every page throughout the site. Underneath it you will see links to Advanced Search and CrossRef Search and, beneath them, the Cite Search boxes.
Quick Search
To use the Quick Search facility, enter your search terms into the box and click 'Search'. This will run a search runs across the full text of all articles on the site and their associated metadata fields (title, author names, keywords, etc). If you want to search Cambridge Journals Online for something other than journals content, click the 'Search Other Content' radio button. This will search across all the information pages but will not search the journals themselves.
Cite Search
'Cite Search' provides you with a quick way of searching for content if you have an article citation to hand, or if you know some or all of the bibliographic details of the content you are looking for. In other words, it is a more precise search tool than 'Quick Search' because you can use more search criteria. At the same time, because you already know what you are looking for you don't need the powerful search capabilities provided by 'Advanced Search'.
To use 'Cite Search' start typing the name of the journal you are interested in into the first box. As you type a list of journals that match your criteria will appear from which you can make your selection. You can then use any or all of the other fields (Author, Year, Volume, Issue, Page) to narrow down your search further. Note, however, that you can use any of the fields on their own (once you have selected a journal) except for the 'Page' field. If you try to do this you will see an error message asking you to enter more data.
Advanced Search
If you wish to narrow your search further, use the Advanced Search tool. (See Help on Advanced Search for more information.)
CrossRef Search
CrossRef search allows you to search all participating publishers' content. For more information about CrossRef, visit the CrossRef website.
Ranking results
To find out how we rank your search results, see Help on Search Results.
Some basic search techniques
The best way to enter a key phrase is to put it in quotation marks (for example "genetic epidemiology"). This will search for the exact phrase.
You can also be precise about the combination of words you are searching for. Use a plus (+) before words you require, and a minus (-) before words you don't want to include. For example, +genetic +epidemiology -"epidemiology and infection" will find articles with genetic and epidemiology in them, but no articles containing the exact phrase 'epidemiology and infection'.
When you use lower-case key words, you will also get matches with capitalised words. Similarly, if you use capitalised words you will get matches with lower case words.
You can use an asterisk (*) as a wild card (for example, fish* will find matches for Fisher, Fisher's, fishes, fisher).
The 'Society Members' page allows Society Administrators to give their society members access to society journals. (The 'Members' page appears in the Account Administrator's menu if you have registered with us as your society's administrator. If you have not yet done this, you will need to contact Customer Services to do so.)
The first thing you will need to do is upload a file containing just the society's membership numbers. The membership numbers can contain both letters and numbers but should be no more than 10 characters in length. The file must be a text file where each number starts on a new line.
Example
21344
4534
4324343
To upload the file, click 'Upload Membership Number' at the top of the page. You will be taken to a new page which will allow you to browse your desktop for your membership numbers text file and upload it to Cambridge Journals Online. (See Help on Upload membership number.)
When you register as the Society Administrator, you will be given a Society ID by Cambridge Customer Services. You should provide your members with this number and with their individual Society Subscription ID (ie the membership number you uploaded to the site). Members who are registered users of Cambridge Journals Online will then be able to use the 'Activate society subscriptions' page to gain access to the full-text of society journals.
Society members listing
The list that appears on the 'Members' page is of those members who have activated their society subscription. The default order of this list is by 'Membership Number' (the membership numbers previously uploaded to the society account.) Note: the 'Member ID' number displayed in the list is a Cambridge allocated number and is used for internal identification purposes.
Society members listing options
You can change how the list is organised by selecting a different 'Sort by' option: Member ID, Last Name, First Name.
You can also decide how many results appear per page, by using the 'Results per page' menu. (It defaults to 10 results per page.)
You can jump to a specific page in the entire list of results by using the 'Go to page' menu and you can also navigate to the first, previous, next and last pages of the entire list of results by clicking the corresponding page navigation links.
All of these search result options can be located at the top and bottom of all search result pages.
Access from the society's website
Society members can also be given direct access to their journal from the society's website. We can set up a link that is accessible from the member's area of the society's website and takes them directly to the full text of the society journal on Cambridge Journals Online. If you would like this arrangement for your society, please get in touch with your main editorial contact at Cambridge University Press
This tool is designed to retrieve journal information from our database and provide it in a convenient format for use in other applications. It is particularly useful for Account Administrators and librarians who need to do things like produce listings, check claims or create deep links to journal homepages from their OPACs. It is also a useful way for individual users to check which journals they should have access to.
1. Select which journals you want to include in your listing
If you are interested in particular journals or subject areas scroll down the 'Journals' or 'Subjects' list and select them.
Note: to select more than one journal or subject from these menus, PC users should hold down the Control (CTRL) key while clicking on the items they are interested in. On Macintoshes, use the Apple key.
2. Select the types of content you want listed using the 'Contents' list
This menu gives you a number of other ways of selecting journals content:
- all content available to you
- all content not available to you (ie those journals which you do not subscribe to or which Cambridge no longer publishes)
- your institutional subscriptions
- your consortia subscriptions
- your archive subscriptions
- your free trials
- journals no longer published by Cambridge
- journals which changed title
- journals free to all
- issues free to all
3. Use the 'Fields to Display' menu to choose the field types you are interested in.
These include the journal's full and short title, the URL of the journal's homepage and the date the most recent article was published.
4. Select a format
Use the 'Output file' menu to choose how you wish to view or export the data.
You can choose to display the listings on screen so that you can check them before exporting them.
If you would like your data to be formatted into an Excel spreadsheet file, select "Excel Spreadsheet" from the list of options. If you want to incorporate the data into local databases or other types of applications, select either the Tab or Comma Delimited file formats. If you choose any of these options, the data will automatically be previewed on screen. When you are satisfied with the listing, click 'Download file'.
Example of Comma Delimited Format:
Ageing & Society,Cambridge University Press,0144-686X
Example of Tab Delimited Format:
Ageing & Society Cambridge University Press
0144-686X
RSS and Atom feeds have become standards for syndicating content. They
are computer-readable files that summarise new content as it appears on a website. (RSS and Atom are two different formats that do basically the same thing. RSS is the more established, but Atom is becoming increasingly widespread.)
How to get RSS or Atom feeds from Cambridge Journals Online
To receive news feeds you first need to be a registered user and to have logged in. Then, if you have not already done so, you need to install a newsreader on your computer. You will find a list of readers at Syndication resources. Some are free and some you have to pay for, some support RSS only but many support both RSS and Atom. (Please note: Cambridge University Press cannot recommend a particular newsreader, nor can we provide technical support for its installation and use.)
You will then need to find the RSS or Atom icon for the Cambridge journal(s) you want to receive feeds from. You can do this by going to the RSS/Atom page which appears under the Browse menu in the left-hand navigation panel. (Alternatively, you can click on the RSS/Atom icons that appear on individual journal homepages.)
The 'Browse RSS/Atom' page lists Cambridge Journals alphabetically by title. Find the journal you are interested in, then click either the RSS or Atom icon next to it. This will open a new page, at the bottom of which you will see either one or two URLs. The first (or only) URL will give you a feed for the latest issue of a particular journal. The feed contains a brief description of the journal and a list of the articles that appear in that issue. If you click on the title of an article you will go to the article's abstract from where you can click through to the abstract on Cambridge Journals Online. From there, if you or your organisation subscribes to the journal, you will be able to access the full text of the article. The second URL, if it is displayed, will give you a feed for First View articles. These are articles that are available on Cambridge Journals Online before the next issue of the journal has been published. This option is not available for all Cambridge Journals as not all of them publish their articles incrementally in this way.
To receive either or both of these feeds you need to cut and paste the relevant URL(s) into your newsreader. You will need to repeat this process for every journal you want to get feeds from.
This page displays the total cost of the items in your basket, including the tax you will be charged for online and print items. (Tax for online items is charged at the rate applicable in the country you are ordering from. For print items, the tax will be charged at the rate applicable in the country we are despatching the order to.) When you are happy to proceed, click the 'Next' button.
Content alerts are email notifications that new journal content has been published on Cambridge Journals Online. If you are a registered user you can set up your contents alerts in a number of different ways using the 'My Content Alerts' page. Depending on your preferences you can receive tables of contents or information about individual articles. (You can also opt to run saved searches periodically and receive the results by email - see Help on Advanced Search and My Saved Searches).
My content alerts
To set up contents alerts you need to have registered and be logged in. You can then go to the 'My Contents Alerts' link in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu to set up new alerts or change your existing ones. If you have not yet registered and click on 'New Contents Alerts' on a particular journal's homepage you will be asked to complete the registration process before your alerts can be set up for you.
Set alert preferences
The 'Set alert preferences' section allows you to decide what kind of alerts you want to receive, how often you want to receive them and whether you prefer HTML or text-only emails.
You can choose to receive an email whenever a new issue of a journal you are interested in is published online. To do this, click the first radio button under 'Set alert preferences'.
Or you can choose to receive a regular email that tells you which new issues of the journal(s) you are interested in have been published online in a particular period. You can specify exactly how often you want to receive those emails. This is a useful option if you are tracking a number of different journals and prefer to consolidate the alerts into a single, regular update. To do this, click the second radio button and state how frequently you want to receive the email in the field provided.
If you want to stop receiving all content alerts, you can unsubscribe by clicking the third radio button: 'Unsubscribe from all email alerts for all journals'.
If you want to unsubscribe from some content alerts but not others, go to the list of journals below and uncheck the journals you are no longer interested in.
You can also opt to receive an email notifying you if any of the journals you are interested in publishes individual articles online in advance of the issue as a whole ('First View' articles). To do this, check the box next to: 'Send me an email alert every x days listing any individual articles that have been published online from any of the journals selected below', specifying how often you would like to receive the email.
You can also choose whether to receive emails in HTML or as text only, by clicking the appropriate radio button.
Personalisation
This feature allows you to choose how much information you want to receive and in what format.
If the 'Send me alerts without personalisation' box is checked you will receive emails containing the title and author(s) of the article(s) you are interested in, the name, volume and issue number of the journal(s) they appear in, their doi and the date they were published online. If you opted for HTML in the previous section these will link to the relevant pages on Cambridge Journals Online. This is the default setting.
'Alert personalisation' gives you the option of having either the first 50 words of the articles' abstracts or their entire abstracts included in the email.
'Alert attachments' allows you to receive information as PDF attachments instead of having it in the body of the email. You can choose to receive as PDFs:
- tables of contents
- tables of contents plus the first 50 words of each abstract
- tables of contents with complete abstracts
When you have decided how you would like to receive your emails, click 'Update' then go to 'Select journals' to choose the journal(s) you want to track.
Select journals
Clicking on a subject under the 'Subjects available' heading displays all the journals in that subject area.
If you are interested in hearing about individual articles published in advanced of whole issues (and you checked the box above to indicate that preference) you will also need to specify here which journals you wish that to apply to by clicking the 'First View Article Alert' checkbox. If you only want to be informed when complete issues have been published, click the 'Issue Alert' checkbox. If you click both, you will hear about individual articles as they are published, then receive the table of contents either when the issue is complete or as part of your next periodic alert, depending on your preference.
For both whole issue and First View alerts you can either click on the 'Select all Journals' checkboxes at the top of each column to hear about everything published in that subject area or choose individual journals from the list.
Some Cambridge journals are now encouraging readers to respond to individual articles. If the journal(s) you are interested in are accepting comments, you can also choose to be alerted when comments are posted. This feature is available if a checkbox appears in the 'Contents Alerts' column.
Once you have made your selection, click the 'Update' button at the bottom of the page.
The Advanced Search facility allows you to refine your searches to increase the relevance of your search results. The following search criteria can be used in an Advanced Search query:
Search On using the drop-down boxes on the left hand side you can choose to search any of the following fields:
Anywhere - this allows you to search across all fields.
Full Text - searches only the main text of an article.
Article Title - searches in the title text.
Author - searches author names.
Affiliation - searches author affiliations listed in articles.
Abstract - searches only within the abstract of an article.
Keywords - searches keywords listed in articles (please note that this is only available for journals that publish article keywords).
DOI - searches for a specific Digital Object Identifier.
ISSN - searches for a specific ISSN or EISSN for a journal
Search For - type your search terms here
Using the AND, OR, AND NOT boxes
Use these boxes to construct more complex searches.
Some examples:
Searching for Author: Clark AND Anywhere: influenza will find all articles that contain the word influenza by all authors whose name is Clark.
Searching for Author: Clark OR Anywhere: influenza will find all articles that contain the word influenza and all articles by authors whose name is Clark.
Searching for Author: Clark AND NOT Anywhere: influenza will find all articles by authors whose name is Clark except those that contain the word influenza.
Searching for Abstract: influenza AND NOT Author: Clark will find all articles that contain the word influenza in the abstract, except those that are by an author whose name is Clark.
For searches on more than two terms the search is bracketed.
Example:
Anywhere: influenza AND Author: Clark OR Anywhere: epidemiology AND Title: community will search for (((Anywhere: influenza AND Author: Clark) OR Anywhere: epidemiology) AND Title: community) - which will find all articles that contain influenza that have Clark as an Author and community in the title and all articles that contain the word epidemiology and have community in the title.
Other ways of refining your search
Journals - by default the search is across all journal content on Cambridge Journals Online. This box allows you to narrow your search to specific journals. Use the list* to select the journal(s) you want to search across.
Subjects - this allows you to search particular subject areas. Use the list* to select the subject(s) you are interested in.
Limit your search by date
You can also refine your searches by publication date. (Note: the publication date is the cover date of the journal issue.)
From - select the earliest publication month and year from the drop-down menu.
To - select the latest publication month and year from the drop-down menu.
Searches can also be filtered for certain criteria and you can control how the search results will be displayed:
Number of results per page - allows you to choose how many search results will display on each page
Exclude book reviews - allows you to remove book reviews from the search results
Only search journals you have full access to - allows you to remove from the search results any articles that you do not have full-text access to
Specific article type - allows you restrict the article types to be displayed by choosing from a drop-down menu*
Fields to be included - allows you to choose from a drop-down menu* which fields you would like displayed on the search results page
Once you have specified all your search criteria and search filters, click 'Search'. You can click 'Reset' at any time in order to clear the form.
To select multiple items from any list hold down the Ctrl key (PC) or Apple key (Mac) while selecting items from the list.
The 'Search results' page is displayed when you have carried out a quick or advanced search. It shows the criteria you used for the search and lists the articles that match your them. If you want to change your search criteria you can easily do so by clicking on the 'Edit Search' link.
The default order of the results list is by 'Relevancy', which displays articles in order of their relevance to the search criteria used (ie the most relevant article appears first).
How we calculate relevancy
Simple searching runs across the full text of articles and their associated metadata fields (title, author names, keywords, etc). The ranking of the results of the search is determined by the number of times the search term occurs in the full text or in any of the metadata fields, with some fields weighted to raise their results ranking. For example, the search relevancy is increased by a factor of 3 if the search term appears in the article title, by a factor of 2 if it is among the article keywords and by a factor of 1.5 if it is the author's name.
A search for Smith will usually rank results with Smith in the title or as an author above those results where Smith appears in the full text. However, if the search term appears many times in the full text of a document, it will appear near the top of any set of results. It should also be noted that the ranking takes into account the total number of words found in the document or in the metadata fields. Therefore, a single author result will be ranked above an author found in a multi-authored paper.
For example
A Simple Search for Jonathan Smith will return a list of documents ranked as described above.
A document containing 10 occurrences of Jonathan and 10 of Smith will be listed above a document with 12 occurrences of Jonathan only.
A document authored by Michael Smith and containing the words Jonathan and Smith once each within its full text will be listed above a document authored by John Brown that also contains Jonathan and Smith once within its full text.
A document containing Physics 100 times in its full text will be listed above a document with Physics in its title.
And, of course, you can further refine your results using the Advanced Search facility.
For more information about the relevancy formula used, see the Lucene website.
Search results format
Each article entry in the list follows this format (unless you modified the format using the Advanced Search feature):
- Title
- Author
- Journal, Volume, Issue, Month, Page range
- DOI, online publication date
- Article content links (Abstract, PDF, HTML, etc...) or 'Add to basket' link
Search results options
The search results are automatically displayed in order of relevance. However, you can change this by selecting a different 'Sort by' option: Journal, Title, Author, Cover Date (ie the date the print issue was published), Date Published Online, Price and Access. To select another option, click on the 'Sort by' drop-down menu, and then click on the option you prefer.
You can also control how many results appear on a page. The default value is set at 10 results per page. For more results per page, click the 'Results per page' drop-down menu, and click on the number you prefer.
You can jump to a specific page in the entire list of results by clicking the 'Go to page' menu. You can also navigate to the first, previous, next and last pages of the entire list of results by clicking the corresponding navigation links.
All of these search result options appear at the top and bottom of all search result pages.
Further search options
You can perform further searches on the search results displayed to get a more precise search result. To search within results, enter your search criteria in the input field below 'Your enquiry has returned XX matches', at the top of the page. Click the 'Search within results' radio button and then click the 'Search' button above it.
To perform a new search, enter your search criteria in the input field below 'Your enquiry has returned XX matches', at the top of the page. Click the 'New search' radio button and then click the 'Search' button above it.
If you would like to refine your search criteria, click your browser's 'Back' button to take you back to the Advanced Search page which will still display your original search criteria. To carry out a new Advanced Search, click on the 'Advanced Search' link to go to a new search form.
Once you found the article(s) you are looking for...
... you can save them, export their citations and add them to your shopping basket.
To save an article, click the checkbox that appears next to it under the 'Save / Export / View citation' column. To select all the articles listed, click the 'Select all' checkbox under the same column. Then click the 'Save selected items' button at the top or bottom of the page.
To export a citation, click the checkbox that appears next to it under the 'Save / Export / View citation' column. To select all the articles listed, click the 'Select all' checkbox under the same column. Then click the 'Export citation' button at the top or bottom of the page.
To add an item to your shopping basket, click the checkbox that appears next to it under the 'Add to basket' column. To select all the articles listed, click the 'Select all' checkbox under the same column. Then click the 'Add to basket' button at the top or bottom of the page. You can also add an item to your shopping basket by clicking the 'Add to basket' link that appears below each article.
If you already have access to the full text of the article(s) because you or your organisation subscribes, or you have bought a pay-per-view article, you can access the article content directly by using the PDF (or HTML where available) links below each article entry.
Multiple abstracts can be viewed on a single page by clicking the checkboxes next to the articles you are interested in under the 'Save / Export / View citation' column. To select all the articles listed, click the 'Select all' checkbox under the same column. Then click the 'View selected abstracts on one page' link at the bottom of the page.
Save search
Once you have carried out a quick or advanced search, you can choose to save the search. You can either save the search results you got at that particular time or you can save the search parameters you used. You can then use these parameters at a later date to search the site again, including any new content that has been added in the meantime. To save a search, click the 'Save search' button at the top or bottom of the page.
Information about a journal's editorial board is accessible from the journal's home page. Under 'More Information' in the right-hand navigation panel, click on 'Editorial Board'. The page displayed will list the journal's current editors and members of the editorial board, showing their institutional affiliations and any specific journal responsibilities they may have.
Information about where a journal has been abstracted or indexed can be accessed from the journal's home page. Under 'More Information' in the right-hand navigation panel, click on 'A&I Services'.
This page lists the indexing and abstracting services that reference the journal. (Note: this information is not available for all Cambridge journals.)
The homepage is your central source of updated information on Cambridge Journals Online. You can easily return to this page from anywhere in the site by clicking the 'Cambridge Journals Online' logo on the top left-hand side of the page or the 'Home' link that always appears at the beginning of the navigational 'breadcrumb trail'.
The home page is divided into three columns.
Left-hand navigation panel
This navigation panel appears on all pages of Cambridge Journals Online, always on the left-hand side of the page.
Register now/log in
To take advantage of all the personalisation features of Cambridge Journals Online, and to get access to the Account Administrator's menu if you are your organisation's Account Administrator, you need to register and be logged in. To register for the first time, click 'Register now' and follow the instructions. If you have already registered, log in using your Cambridge Journals Online username or email address and password or your Athens or Shibboleth log in (see related Help topics for more information). If you have forgotten your password, click 'Forgot my password' and choose to receive either your password reminder or a temporary username and password that will allow you to re-set your registration details.
Browse journals
Use these links to browse Cambridge Journals in a variety of ways:
- 'By Title'
- 'By Subject'
- 'Subscribed To' ie those journals whose contents you have access to because either your library suscribes or you have a personal subscription.
- 'Free Content' ie those journals, volumes, issues or articles that are available free of charge on Cambridge Journals Online.
- 'Collection Manager' is a feature that allows you to search for and download bibliographic information about Cambridge Journals.
- RSS/Atom feeds are syndication formats for Cambridge Journals content.
- 'Favourites' will appear in this menu if you are registered and have logged in. This feature allows you to go straight to the content you are most interested in.
Please refer to related Help topics for more information on these different options.
My Cambridge Journals Online
These links are only available to registered users of Cambridge Journals Online who have logged in. They allow registered users to customise Cambridge Journals Online, to buy pay-per-view articles; view saved articles, bookmarks and searches; change their registration details: and configure content alert settings, favourite journals and subjects. Activation of individual subscriptions and society subscriptions can also be done here. Please refer to related topics for more information.
Account Administrator
These links are only available to Account Administrators. Account Administrators can configure IPs, manage remote users, activate organisational subscriptions and view all details of their subscriptions, create URL resolvers, update their organisation's information, view usage statistics, receive expiry alerts and use the online print issue claim form. Please refer to related topics for more information on these different sections.
Central messages panel
Resources for users
At the top of this section, links are provided to resources that have been specially developed for different types of user: authors, societies, librarians, individual users and agents. The 'New Features' link gives you an overview of all the latest features on Cambridge Journals Online.
News and announcements
This is located in the middle of the page and contains up-to-date news from Cambridge Journals.
Advertising and corporate sales
Click here if you are interested in advertising in any of Cambridge's journals or in ordering commercial reprints.
For subscription agents
This page provides specialist information for subscription agents, including an up-to-date price list.
Right-hand messages panel
Organisation messages
This panel will only appear if you are recognised as belonging to an organisation. It is located in the right-hand column of the page and contains information from your organisation.
Marketing message and banners
This is where Cambridge posts messages with a variety of special offers and announcements. Banners will be used for marketing promotions and campaigns.
Search panel
Quick Search
This is located on the upper right-hand side of the page and appears on all pages of Cambridge Journals Online. Entering a keyword and clicking 'Search' will display results based on that specific keyword criteria.
Cite Search
If you know some or all of the citation details of the content you are looking for, use Cite Search to take you straight to it.
Or you can use the Advanced and CrossRef search facilities. Please refer to related Help topics for more information on all of these different features.
To personalise Cambridge Journals Online and to take advantage of all its features, you need to register. You can either do this from the home page or from any page within the site by clicking 'Register now' which appears in the 'Log in' box at the top left of every page.
This will bring up the Registration page. Enter your details into the appropriate input fields, making sure that you complete the required fields that are marked with an asterisk (*).
If you want to be the Account Administrator (see Help on Account Administrator) for your organisation, you will need to enter your organisation's name, then click the 'I want to be the administrator for my organisation' checkbox.
You will also need to provide a username and password. The username and password must have a minimum of four and a maximum of twenty-four characters. They can be a combination of letters and numbers and are case-sensitive.
We also ask you to enter a word or phrase that will remind you of your password. For example, this could be your place of birth, favourite football team or the name of a family pet.
When you have filled in the required fields you must read the 'Terms of Use' and accept them by clicking the checkbox. At this stage you can also opt to receive news and special offers from Cambridge or you can select specific subject areas you would like to hear about. If you do not want your details to be passed on to similar organisations, click the relevant checkbox. Finally, if you would like us to remember your username and password so that you can log in to Cambridge Journals Online straightaway, click the last checkbox. However, you should not do this of you are using a shared computer as other people may be able to gain access to your personal information.
When you have filled in all the boxes, click 'Submit' at the bottom of the page. You will then see a 'Registration successful' page.
Note: if you don't fill in all the required fields, or if some of the information you enter already exists on the system, you will be asked to amend the relevant fields. If this happens, you will also need to re-enter and confirm your password.
If you checked the 'I want to be the administrator for my organisation' you will now be asked to enter your organisation's IP ranges in the field provided. This is an added security measure to ensure that only authorised members of staff can set themselves up as Account Administrators. (See Help on 'Configure IP addresses' for more information about IP addresses and ranges.)
This feature allows you to transfer the role of Account Administrator to another registered user in your organisation. To do this you will need to know the Cambridge Journals Online username and password of the new Administrator.
To change administrator you need to be logged in. Click on 'Change Administrator' in the 'Account Administrator' menu to bring up a new page where you should enter your password into the input field. Then enter the username and password of the new administrator into their corresponding input fields. Click 'Update' at the bottom of the page.
Once updated, the Account Administrator's functions are transferred to the new administrator with immediate effect. You will no longer have access to the Account Administrator tools.
To give members of your organisation access to the journals you have subscribed to, you need to supply the IP addresses that identify the eligible machines on your network. Use the 'Configure IP addresses' page in the Account Administrator's menu to do this and to make any changes to your IP configuration. However, please note that if you are part of a consortium or license agreement with us you will need to email journals@cambridge.org to set up or amend your IPs.
Adding, deleting and excluding IP addresses
If you want to add a single IP address or range, enter it into the first text box and click 'Update' at the bottom of the page. If you want to add more than one IP address or range, use the second, larger text box and enter the IP addresses or ranges with a comma (,) between them. Click 'Update' to make the changes.
All of your existing IP addresses or ranges are displayed on the page. If you wish to delete any of these, check the 'Delete' box that appears next to it/them and click 'Update'.
If you wish to exclude any of your listed IP addresses from within ranges, tick the 'Exclude' checkbox and click 'Update'. You can also enter any IP addresses you wish to exclude in the first textbox, tick the 'Exclude' check box next to it and click 'Update'.
IP addresses are made up of four numeric components separated by a full stop (period). Each numeric component ranges from 0 to 255. You can express an IP range by using a hyphen (-) and you can use a wildcard within a range by using an asterisk (*).
About IP addresses
Examples of valid IP address formats (note the numbers are used as examples only):
- 121.18.19.20 = a single IP address
- 121.18.19.* = all IP addresses beginning 121.18.19
- 121.18.19.0-255 = a range of IP addresses from 121.18.19.0 to 121.18.19.255 inclusive (ie the same as the example above)
- 121.18.* = all IP addresses beginning 121.18
- 121.18.0-255. = all IP addresses in the range 121.18.0-255 (ie all addresses beginning 121.18)
- 121.18.0-255.0-255 = all IP addresses beginning 121.18
- 121.* = all IP addresses beginning 121
- 121.0-255.0-255.0-255 = all IP addresses beginning 121
CIDR IP addresses: Cambridge Journals Online now also recognises CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) IP addresses. CIDR is a new convention for IP syntax which means that a single IP address can designate multiple IP addresses. A CIDR IP address looks like a conventional IP address except that it ends with a forward slash followed by a number called the IP Network Prefix. You can enter CIDR IP addresses in the appropriate boxes as described above.
The journal homepage contains all the key information about the journal, including a description of its aims and scope, its publication frequency and subscription information. It is also the 'gateway' to the journal's content.
Accessing journal content
To access the journal's content, go to 'Available Volumes' in the middle of the page and click on either the most recent issue(s) or volume displayed or on 'show back volumes' to find previous issues. Clicking on an issue will take you directly to the table of contents; clicking on a volume will bring up the issue numbers for that volume, which, in turn, will take you to their tables of contents.
Note: some journals are making individual issues available for purchase. If this is the case, you will see an 'Add issue to basket' link next to the issue(s) concerned. Only the online versions of individual issues are available to buy in this way.
First View articles
An increasing number of journals will also display a link to 'First View Articles'. These are articles that are available on Cambridge Journals Online before the issue to which they belong has been published. This link only appears on the homepages of those journals that are publishing incrementally in this way.
Accepted manuscripts
Some journals are also choosing to announce forthcoming articles as soon as they have been accepted for publication. Clicking on 'Accepted Manuscripts' brings up a list of articles, giving their titles, author(s) and the date they were accepted for publication.
Author and Keyword Index
Some journals also include links to author and keyword indexes.
These indexes are available for the whole journal or for individual volumes. (They are also available for individual issues from the table of contents page). Click on the 'Author Index' link to bring up a list of authors who have contributed to the journal or volume. If you have access to the full text of the journal you will see links to the abstract, PDF and HTML (if available) of their article next to their name. If you do not have access to the full text, you will see a link to the abstract.
Click on the 'Keyword Index' to bring up a list of keywords and links to the related articles.
Submitting articles online
More and more journals now encourage prospective contributors to submit their articles electronically. If the journal you are interested in accepts online submissions, you will see a 'Submit your article online' button immediately above the 'Available Volumes' listing. Click on the button and follow the instructions provided.
Subscribe
At the bottom of the page are the rates for the various types of subscription available for the journal. If you are an Account Administrator you can take out organisational subscriptions online; individual users can take out personal subscriptions. Clicking on 'Subscribe' will take you directly to the appropriate shopping basket.
From the right-hand navigation panel, you can access the following features:
Search: 'This journal' - for a quick way to search the contents of this particular journal, enter a search term into the search box and click 'Go'.
Search: 'This subject' - if you want to broaden your search to cover an entire subject area, click on the arrow to bring up a list of related subject areas. Choose the one you are interested in, enter your search term and click on 'Go'.
Journal Information menu
Beneath the search box is the 'Journal Information' menu. This is a collapsible menu providing links to more information about the journal. If it is not displaying, click the '+' sign next to 'Journal Information' to view it.
- Editorial board
- Book review info
- Instructions for contributors
- Transfer of copyright (not available for all journals)
- A & I services
- Advertising information
- Impact factor
For more information about any of these items see the related Help topics.
Related links
This is another collapsible menu listing links to related resources that appear elsewhere on Cambridge Journals Online or on external sites. If the menu is not displaying, click the '+' to see the complete list.
Features for registered users
If you are registered and have logged in, you can have access to a number of different useful features from the journal homepage.
- New content alerts - get email alerts when new content appears online
- Bookmark this journal - so that you can get straight to the content you are interested in
- Free issue/article
- Recommend this journal - a quick way of sending a message to your librarian
- RSS and Atom feeds also help you stay up-to-date with new content
See related Help topics for more information about these features.
Listings
The journal homepage also provides information on the most popular articles based on Cambridge Journals Online usage figures and citation data taken from the CrossRef database. All of this information is updated monthly.
- Top 10 most read articles - in the previous month
- Top 10 most read articles - in the previous 12 months
- Most cited articles - in the previous 2 years. The 10 most frequently cited articles are listed.
- Most cited articles - all citations. The 10 most frequently cited articles are listed.
Social bookmarking
You can also bookmark the journal homepage to a number of different social bookmarking or networking sites by simply clicking on the link to the site of your choice. See Help on 'Social bookmarking' for more information.
Each table of contents has the journal's title, subtitle and main editor(s) displayed at the top of the page.
Sorting tables of contents
The table of contents is arranged by article type and sorted by page number.
Use the 'Sort by' drop-down menu if you want to sort the contents in a different way. You can sort by page, author, title, article type and published date.
To help you navigate quickly between issues, a link to 'Previous issue' and 'Next issue' appears at the top of each page.
Author and Keyword Index
Note: this feature is not yet available for all journals.
Click on the 'Author Index' link to bring up a list of authors who have contributed to this issue. If you have access to the full text of the journal you will see links to the abstract, PDF and HTML (if available) of their article next to their name. If you do not have access to the full text, you will see a link to the abstract.
Click on the 'Keyword Index' to bring up a list of keywords and links to the related articles.
Purchase this issue
Some journals are making individual issues available for purchase. If this is the case, you will see an 'Add this issue to your basket' link above the table of contents. Note: only the online version of the issue is available for purchase in this way.
View Table of Contents as PDF
Clicking the 'View Table of Contents list as PDF' button allows you to open the table of contents in PDF and/or save it to your desktop.
Useful features
Save to My Saved Articles
To save an article to return to later, click the checkbox(es) next to the article(s) you are interested in, or select all by clicking the 'Select all' checkbox. Then click the 'Save to My Saved Articles' button at the top or bottom of the page. You can view your saved articles in 'My saved articles' page. Note: you need have registered and logged in to use this feature. See Help on 'My Saved Articles'.
Export Citations
To download citations to your desktop or email them to a colleague, click the checkbox(es) next to the article(s) you are interested in, or select all by clicking the 'Select all' checkbox. The click the 'Export Citation' button. See Help on 'Export Citation'.
Download PDFs
This feature allows you to download PDFs of articles to your desktop if you have access to the full text. If you do not have access to the full text you can use it to download abstracts. Again, click the checkbox next to the article(s) you are interested in, then click 'Download PDFs'. A new page or tab will open and you will be asked where you want the downloads saved and how you want to name them. Then click 'Start Download'. The PDFs will be downloaded in turn and you can stop the download at any point by clicking 'Stop Download'.
Add article(s) to basket
You can buy articles on a pay-per-view basis. To do this, click 'Add to Basket' beneath the article you are interested in. You can also buy more than one article at a time by clicking the checkboxes next to the articles you are interested in. Or you can select all by clicking the 'Select all' checkbox. Click 'Add to basket' at the bottom of the page and you will be taken to the Shopping Basket.
View Selected Abstracts
To view the abstracts of selected articles check the boxes next to the ones you are interested in, then click 'View Selected Abstracts'. A new window will open displaying the abstracts you have chosen.
Accessing the articles
The following information is provided for each article:
title, author(s), journahttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/cupadmin/helppages/detailsl title, volume, issue, circulation date, page number,
DOI, the date it was published online.
If you do not have access to the full text of the article, beneath it you will see links to 'Preview', 'Abstract', 'Add to Basket' and, for some journals, 'Request Permissions' and 'Ask Your Librarian'. Clicking on 'Preview' will bring up a box containing the text of the abstract. See Help on Abstract, Shopping Basket, Request Permissions and Ask Your Librarian for more information about these other features.
If you, or your organisation, has subscribed you will see links to 'Preview', 'Abstract', 'PDF' and, where available, 'HTML' and 'Request Permissions'. Clicking on 'Preview' will bring up a box containing the abstract, with tabs to the 'HTML Article Structure (ie to the sub-headings that appear in the article) and to a list of the 'Figures and Tables' included in the article.
Note: to prevent abuse, Cambridge Journals Online users are allowed to view 1,000 pages from the site as a whole, of which 100 pages may be full-text article downloads, per IP address per hour. If you exceed this number of downloads, you will see a message to that effect asking you to resume activity in an hour.
Right-hand navigation panel
As well as the standard 'Quick Search' and 'Cite Search' features available throughout the site, the drop-down search menu on a table of contents page allows you to restrict your quick search to that issue ('This issue'), or the journal ('This journal) or to related subject areas.
From this panel you can access a number of useful features: you can set up contents alerts; bookmark the issue you are looking at; forward the table of contents to a colleague; subscribe to the journal; return to the journal's homepage.
Social bookmarking
You can also bookmark the journal issue to a number of different social bookmarking or networking sites by simply clicking on the link to the site of your choice. See Help on 'Social bookmarking' for more information.
Increasingly, Cambridge Journals are being made available in full-text HTML as well as PDF. Those journals available in HTML have an 'H' icon next to them on the "Subscribed To" page.
The full-text HTML is accessible from the journal's table of contents or a list of search results. Clicking on the 'HTML' link opens a new window. At the top of the page you will see the article's bibliographic information, including its doi and its online publication date.
Useful features
Immediately beneath that information there are three links that allow you to:
- subscribe to the journal
- email the article's abstract to a colleague
- save the citation to your 'My saved articles' page.
(You need to have registered and logged in to have access to these features. See the related Help pages for more information.)
Beneath these links are four further features:
Clicking on 'A Link to the Abstract/Details of this Article' brings up a link which you can then cut and paste into your web pages or documents.
'How to Cite this Article' provides a complete citation (including the doi) for you to cut and paste into your own work or bibliographic software.
'Export Citation' allows you to download the citation to your desktop or to email it to a colleague.
'Social Bookmarking' allows you to add the abstract to one of the following social bookmarking or networking sites: CiteULike, Del.icio.us, Connotea.org, Bibsonomy.org, Furl.net, Digg.com, Reddit.com, Facebook.
Top right menu
At the top of each article on the right-hand side of the page, a navigation panel allows you to move quickly around the journal content and gives you access to a number of citation features. The navigation allows you to go back to the journal homepage (by clicking on the Volume); to the table of contents (by clicking on the Issue); to the abstract; to the previous and next articles; and to the PDF version of the article you are looking at.
Clicking on 'Request Permissions' takes you to the Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink service. This will tell you if you can obtain permission to re-use some or all of the article and, if you can, lets you to buy the license to do so.
You can find out if this article has been cited elsewhere by using 'Cited by Articles (CrossRef)' and 'Cited by Articles (Google Scholar)'. If you click on either of these links a new window opens that lists - and provides links to - articles in CrossRef or Google Scholar that cite the article you are viewing.
If you have registered and are logged in, you can set up citation alerts to tell you when an article you are interested in has been cited in another publication. See Help on Citation Alerts for more information.
Some Cambridge journals are encouraging debate by asking readers to respond to individual articles. Click on 'Comments' to submit your comment to a moderator. By clicking on 'Comment alerts' you can receive alerts whenever a new comment on this article is posted on Cambridge Journals Online.
'Blog this Article' is a quick and easy way to cite an article in your blog or online community profile. A new window opens containing some code which you can cut and paste into your blog. The code will display as the article's title, author(s), the journal issue it appears in and it will give a link to the article's abstract.
The abstract
The article's abstract appears before the article itself, followed by a list of figures, tables and illustrations (if the article contains any) and key headings within the article. These are provided as links to make it easy to navigate around the content.
Reference linking
Full-text HTML means that we can offer reference linking to help you find related research articles. When an article is cited, the date of the article will appear as a link. Clicking on that link will take you to the reference in the bibliography. If the cited article is available via CrossRef or Medline or appears elsewhere on Cambridge Journals Online a link from the bibliography will take you to it. In addition, for all cited articles in the bibliography we provide a search string you can use in an OpenURL resolver (see below).
OpenURL query
This allows users with access to an OpenURL resolver to find the article. If your library has its own resolver this will tell you whether the article is available to you as part of the library's collection. Click on the 'Open URL query data' link. This will open a new window containing a search string that complies with the OpenURL standard. If your organisation is registered with us and your Account Administrator has given us the URL of your local OpenURL resolver, a link to it will appear in the window. You can then copy and paste the search string directly into that resolver. If no link appears, you can cut and paste into any other resolver.
Medline
Medline is a database containing abstracts of, and bibliographic information about, articles published across the biomedical and life sciences since 1965. If a full-text HTML Cambridge article cites an article that appears in Medline you will be able to link directly to the Medline record which, in turn, links to the article on the publisher's website.
CrossRef
A CrossRef link means the article cited belongs to a participating CrossRef publisher. Clicking on the link will take you directly to the article cited.
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Unicode Characters
Our HTML content uses the Unicode Character Set to identify characters which are not part of the standard Latin character sets/symbols. We do this to extend the range of characters and symbols that can be displayed using an Internet Browser such as Explorer or Firefox. Many of our journals contain highly specialised content requiring character sets/symbols that are specifically for and unique to a subject area. However Internet Browsers and available fonts place limitations on the number of specialist characters that can be displayed correctly.
Support for Unicode depends on the type and version of the browser being used and the fonts installed on an individual's machine. These are configuration issues over which we have no control. Consequently, the same article may display correctly for someone with a specialist font or latest browser but incorrectly for someone with a default font or older browser. In order to minimise this discrepancy we have defined a set of Unicode characters that display correctly in the browsers that CJO supports using the default font Arial (on a PC) and Ventura (on Mac). Characters that are not in this set are replaced by images of the character or symbol. If this was not done, unsupported characters would display as an empty rectangle, not display at all or display the default behaviour for the browser being used.
This has the advantage of enabling users to display the maximum number of unsupported characters. However, it also means that the level is set to a low threshold so users with specialist fonts that could view the special characters will still see the images rather than the Unicode character. There can also be mismatches in the style of the character if it should appear inside an word that is italic or bold. As browsers increase their support for Unicode we will be able to reduce the use of images in the HTML and we hope that this approach will enable you to get the most out of the HTML content.
Instructions for Windows
1. Install "Arial Unicode MS", the universal font for Unicode, if this font has not already been loaded on your computer.
Microsoft Windows XP
If you are using Microsoft Windows XP, "Arial Unicode MS" should be automatically installed. If you cannot see non-Roman characters, set the Latin-based font to "Arial Unicode MS". If this choice is not available on your system, use your installation disks to install the "Universal Font" as Arial Unicode MS is called on the installation disks. Follow the install instructions for Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 2000
The universal font is not installed by default in Windows 2000 so the instructions below provide guidence on the process of installing the font.
However, it is advised that you follow any specific instruction provided by the manufacturer.
Install "Arial Unicode MS" as follows:
Insert the Microsoft Office CD and select "custom install"
Choose Add or Remove Features
Click the (+) next to Office Tools, then International Support, then the
Universal Font icon, and choose the installation option you want.
Then beginning at the Start Menu select as follows:
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options
Within the General tab, select all the languages you want to display
Click OK
Reboot your system for the changes to take effect.
2. Set the default font of your Internet browser to "Arial Unicode MS."
Internet Explorer
Set default font to "Arial Unicode MS" from the Tools menu:
Select Internet Options --> Fonts
Select "Latin-based" from the Language script: menu
Select "Arial Unicode MS" from the Web page font: menu
Select "OK" to save changes.
Nescape
Set default font to "Arial Unicode MS" from the Tools menu:
Select Edit --> Preferences -->Appearance -->Fonts
Select "Unicode" from the "For the Encoding"
Select "Arial Unicode MS" as the Variable Font Width and Fixed Font Width
Select "OK" to save changes.
Firefox
Set default font to "Arial Unicode MS" from the Tools menu:
Select Options-->Content
Select "Arial Unicode MS" in the Default Font:
Select "OK" to save changes.
3. Set the character encoding for the page you are viewing to Unicode (UTF-8).
The browser may automatically set this for you, but ensure that the setting is correct as follows:
Internet Explorer
From the View pulldown menu, select Encoding --> Unicode (UTF-8)
If Unicode does not currently display in your Encoding menu, select "More Encodings" to find it.
Netscape
From the View pulldown menu, select Character Set --> Unicode (UTF-8).
Firefox
From the View pulldown menu, select Character Encoding --> Unicode (UTF-8).
If Unicode does not currently display in your Encoding menu, select "More Encodings" to find it.
Instructions for Macintosh
Your operating system should be Macintosh OS 10.3 or higher to view non-Roman characters in LocatorPlus. Use the current versions of these browsers: Firefox, Safari, and Netscape.
To view non-Roman characters:
1. Install the "Lucida Grande" font for Unicode, if not already loaded on your computer.
2. Set the character encoding for the page you are viewing to Unicode (UTF-8).
The browser may automatically set this for you, but ensure that the setting is correct as follows:
Firefox
From the View pulldown menu, select Character Encoding --> Unicode (UTF-8)
Safari
From the View pulldown menu, select Text Encoding --> Unicode (UTF-8)
Netscape
From the View pulldown menu, select Character Encoding --> Unicode (UTF-8)
This form allows you to make a claim for missing print issues of journals. If you are registered as your organisation's Account Administrator and are logged in, the 'Print issue claim form' will appear in your Account Administrator's menu on the left-hand side of the page. Clicking on it will open a new window.
If you have not received a print issue of a particular journal you will need to claim either when the next issue arrives or before six months have elapsed, whichever is the sooner.
To make your claim, you will need to complete all the fields.
Subscriber number: when you purchase a subscription, either direct from Cambridge or via a subscription agent, you will be sent your subscription number by email if we have your email address, if not, by post.
If you are receiving print versions of the journal, the subscriber number appears on the mailing sheet you get in the journal package. If your journal has been despatched from the UK, you will find the number just above your address. If your journal has been despatched from North America, you will find the number just below the barcode and just after the customer number. If you do not have any record of the number and you purchased the subscription via an agent, please contact the agent in the first instance.
Purchase order ref: this is the reference you supplied when you placed the order. If you bought your subscription using the Cambridge Journals Online shopping basket, please quote your Order ID in this field. Your Order ID appears on the online receipt you received at the time of purchase.
You will then need to complete the rest of the fields asking for details of the missing journal issue, the date payment for the subscription cleared your account or credit card, the method of payment used and the total amount paid. In this last field, please show which currency you paid in using the dollar, sterling or euro symbol as appropriate. In the 'Other details/contact information' field, please give us your name and both your postal address and email address. Finally, using the drop-down menu, tell us your location.
When you have completed all the fields, click 'Submit'. Your claim will be checked by our Customer Services team who will contact you at the address provided.
Abstracts of journal articles are available to all users of Cambridge Journals Online and can be accessed from a journal's tables of contents or a list of search results. As well as a short description of the article's contents, the abstract provides the following information:
- The article's DOI
- The article's online publication date
- The date the article was originally accepted for publication. (This is provided by the journal's editorial office and may not be available for all journals.)
- The names and affiliations of the author(s)
- Contact details for those wishing to enter into correspondence with the author(s)
- Where available, a link to Medline's database of authors
- A list of the keywords that have been used to index the article
Features for registered users
If you are a registered user and logged in you can also:
- Take out an online subscription to the journal by clicking on Subscribe to Journal (see Help on 'Shopping basket')
- Save the abstract to your Saved Articles page (see Help on 'Saved articles')
- Sign up to receive new Contents Alerts (see Help on 'Content alerts')
- Email the Abstract to an interested colleague (see Help on 'Email Abstract')
- Receive Citation Alerts if the article is cited elsewhere (see Help on 'Citation Alerts'). Note: this feature appears in the menu at the top right of page.
If you are a registered user but have not logged in and would like to use one of these features, you can click on the 'Log in' link which will allow you to log in using your username (or email) and password or your Athens log in. To register at this point, simply click on 'Register' and follow the instructions.
Other useful features for all users
Clicking on A Link to the Abstract/Details of this Article brings up a link which you can then cut and paste into your web pages or documents.
How to Cite this Article provides a complete citation (including the DOI) for you to cut and paste into your own work or bibliographic software.
Export Citation allows you to download the citation to your desktop or to email it to a colleague.
If you belong to one of the following social bookmarking or networking sites, you can automatically add the abstract to it by clicking on Social Bookmarking: CiteULike, Del.icio.us, Connotea.org, Bibsonomy.org, Furl.net, Digg.com, Reddit.com, Facebook.
The menu at the top right of the Abstract's window also contains a number of useful features. The first two items are a quick way of navigating to the journal homepage or to the table of contents for the issue the article appears in. If you have access to the full text of the journal, you will see links to the PDF and HTML versions of the article. Otherwise you will see a link that allows you to buy the article on a pay-per-view basis.
Clicking on Request Permissions takes you to the Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink service. This will tell you if you can obtain permission to re-use some or all of the article and, if you can, lets you buy the license to do so online.
Next you will see Cited by Articles (CrossRef) and Cited by Articles (Google Scholar). If you click on either of these links a new window will open which lists - and provides links to - articles in CrossRef or Google Scholar that cite the article you are viewing.
Some Cambridge journals are encouraging debate by asking readers to respond to individual articles. Click on Comments to submit your comment to a moderator. By clicking on Comment alerts you can receive alerts whenever a new comment on this article is posted on Cambridge Journals Online.
Blog this Article is a quick and easy way to cite an article in your blog or online community profile. A new window opens containing some code which you can cut and paste into your blog. The code will display as the article's title, author(s), the journal issue it appears in and it will give a link to the article's abstract.
Symbols in articles and abstracts
Every effort has been made to represent special character symbols (for example, the Greek symbol kappa) correctly within articles and abstracts. Where Web browsers cannot represent these symbols correctly, they are converted to image files.
Each subscribing organisation needs to appoint an Account Administrator who will be solely responsible for purchasing its subscriptions and managing online access.
The Account Administrator:
- purchases subscriptions on behalf of their organisation
- activates and manages user access to the full text of journals
- customises the screens that library users will see
- monitors usage of the journals at their organisation
The Account Administrator can be any designated individual and is most likely to be a member of the library staff.
Registering as the Account Administrator
If you want to set yourself up as the Account Administrator for your organisation, see Help on Registration for detailed instructions. Once you are registered as the Account Administrator, and have logged in, you will have access to the Account Administrator's menu which allows you to manage your subscriptions. To change Account Administrators, click on 'Change Administrator' which appears in the Account Administrator's menu (see Help on Change Administrator).
If you buy your subscription directly through Cambridge Journals Online your subscription will be activated for you and there is no need for you to take any further action.
However, if you have purchased a subscription in any other way (through a subscription agent, for example, or by mailing a cheque to Cambridge University Press) you will have to activate your subscription in order to get online access to the full text of articles.
To do this, you will need to be registered with Cambridge Journals Online and have logged in. You will then see a link to 'Activate subscriptions' in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu which appears at the bottom left-hand side of each page. Enter your subscriber number (see below) into the 'Subscriber Number' box, then click 'Activate'. To activate multiple subscription numbers, enter all your subscriber numbers, separated by a comma, into the text area and then click 'Activate multiple'.
Subscriber numbers
If our Customer Services department has your email address they will email you the subscriber number when you subscribe; otherwise they will mail it to you. If you are subscribing to the print as well as the online version of the journal, you will also find your subscriber number on the carrier sheet in the journal package.
If your subscription originates from the UK, your subscriber number will be a 6 digit number. In North America, the subscriber number is either an 8 or 9 digit number.
If your organisation buys its journal subscriptions directly through Cambridge Journals Online, your subscription will be activated for you and there is no need for you to take any further action.
However, if you have purchased a subscription in any other way (through a subscription agent, for example, or by mailing a cheque to Cambridge University Press) you will have to activate your subscription in order to get online access to the full text of articles.
To do this, you need to go to the 'Activate subscriptions' page in the Account Administrator's menu. You will only have access to this page if you are the Account Administrator for your organisation. Enter your subscriber number (see below) into the 'Subscriber Number' box, then click 'Activate'. To activate multiple subscription numbers, enter all your subscriber numbers, separated by a comma, into the text area and then click 'Activate multiple'. (Please note: in some cases, this process will be done for you by Customer Services.)
Activating society subscriptions
Some societies make special arrangements for their members to have access to the full text of society journals and this arrangement can extend to institutional members. If you organisation is an institutional member member of such a society, you will need to activate your subscription on Cambridge Journals Online in order to provide your users with access to the society's journal(s). To do this, you need two pieces of additional information: the Society ID (the society's Cambridge Journals Online unique identifier) and the Society Subscription ID (your membership number). These should be sent to you by the society.
To activate a society subscription, choose 'Activate Organisational Society Subscription' from the 'Activate Subscriptions' menu. Then enter the Society ID and the Society Subscription ID and click the 'Activate' button.
Subscriber numbers
When you purchase a journal subscription, Customer Services will send you your subscriber number. If you have supplied your email address when purchasing the subscription your subscriber number will be emailed to you. If we do not have your email address, your subscriber number will be mailed to you.
If you are subscribing to the print as well as the online version of the journal, you will also find your subscriber number on the carrier sheet in the journal package.
If your subscription originates from the UK, your subscriber number will be a 6 digit number. In North America, the subscriber number is either an 8 or 9 digit number.
To view the most popular articles published in a particular journal during the previous twelve months, go to the journal's home page. Towards the bottom of the right-hand menu will see the heading 'Top 10 most-read articles'. Clicking on 'Previous 12 months' will take you to a list of the top ten articles organised in descending order of popularity. The rankings are updated on a monthly basis.
To view the most popular articles published in a particular journal in the last month, go to the journal's home page. Towards the bottom of the menu on the right-hand side of the page, you will see the heading 'Top 10 most-read articles'. Clicking on 'Previous month' will take you to a list of the top ten articles organised in descending order of popularity.
Some societies make special arrangements for their members to have access to the full text of society journals. If you are a member of such a society, you will need to activate your subscription on Cambridge Journals Online in order to get access to the society's journal(s). To do this, you need to have registered with Cambridge Journals Online and you need two pieces of additional information: the Society ID (the society's Cambridge Journals Online unique identifier) and the Society Subscription ID (your membership number). These should be sent to you by the society.
To activate your society subscription make sure you are logged in, then click on the 'Activate Subscriptions' link in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu at the bottom left-hand side of each page. Halfway down the 'Activate Subscriptions' page you will see 'Society Subscriptions'. Enter the Society ID and Society Subscription ID and click 'Activate'.
Libraries provide their users with a wide variety of subscription-based electronic resources, all of which ask for usernames and passwords as part of their access control systems. Athens is a service that allows users to access these services using a single username and password. It also allows users to have remote access to organisational subscriptions when they are away from their campus.
To use this facility, an organisation must register its Athens ID with Cambridge Customer Services. Users who have an Athens username and password can then access their organisational subscriptions on Cambridge Journals Online by using the 'Athens log in' that appears on the homepage and in the 'Welcome' panel at the top left of every page throughout the site. If you log in from a journal's homepage, you will be returned to that page once your username and password have been authenticated.
Cambridge Journals Online now supports OpenAthens, which also allows users to access Shibboleth protected resources.
For more information about Athens and OpenAthens, visit the Athens website.
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Cambridge Journals Online uses cookies to provide a personalised service for our users and to help with the secure processing of online sales and data capture. They will also do things like remember your username and password so that you don't have to re-type them each time you visit the site.
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General information
You can join the Southern Political Science Association, register for the SPSA conference (including registering for the luncheon and keynote address), contribute to the SPSA endowment funds, or renew your existing SPSA membership on Cambridge Journals Online. You will need to have registered with Cambridge Journals Online and be logged in to use this feature.
Registration by mail
You can also purchase your membership or register for the conference by mail. Once you have clicked either the member or non-member option, you will see a link to the Printable Registration Form which allows you to download a PDF form. Print this form and mail it to Cambridge University Press with your check.
Any conference registrations not submitted before November 30th must be submitted on-site at the conference. Note that all on-site conference registrations will attract a surcharge.
Cancellation and refund policies
- Conference registration and Luncheon/keynote address: If you cancel your purchase before November 30th, you will receive a full refund. If the cancellation is made after November 30th, no refund will be given.
- Membership: If you cancel your membership before the first issue of the Journal of Politics is mailed to you, you will receive a full refund. If you cancel after the first issue is sent, no refund will be given.
- Endowment fund: Refunds for endowment fund contributions are not, as a rule, made. The society will review cancellations of endowment fund contributions on a case-by-case basis. If you have any questions, please contact the SPSA at spsa@georgiasouthern.edu.
Pricing note:
You will notice that all prices for SPSA conference-and-membership-related purchases are listed in US dollars only. If you are a user from outside the United States of America, you will be charged in US dollars for any SPSA conference or membership purchases you make. Your credit card company will convert this purchase to your local currency at their conversion rate as of the date of the transaction.
Cambridge University Press now gives authors the option of making their articles freely available to everyone, immediately on publication. This new service reflects Cambridge's commitment to further the dissemination of published academic information.
You can look for Open Access articles in a particular journal by going to the journal homepage and clicking on the Open Access icon in the menu on the right-hand side of the page.
Click here to find out more.
This feature allows you to go straight to your key areas of interest. To get to it you need to be a registered user and have logged in. 'Browse Favourites' will then appear in the 'Browse Journals' menu on the left-hand side of every page.
The 'Browse Favourites' page is divided into two sections. 'Favourite Journals' lists the particular journals you are interested in. If you are interested in a subject area as a whole rather than in specific journals, 'Favourite Subjects' shows you all the journals Cambridge publishes in that subject.
You can choose which journals and subject areas you want to have displayed on this page by going to 'Favourite journals' or 'Favourite subjects' in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu that appears at the bottom left-hand side of every page.
Icons
You may see a number of different icons next to each journal title:
- H - indicates that articles are available in HTML. (All Cambridge Journals are available as PDFs and most are also available in HTML.)
- F - indicates that certain articles are free. This free access may be available to all visitors or to particular organisation members.
- T - indicates that access to certain articles is available on a trial basis. This trial access may be available to all visitors or to particular organisation members for a specified period of time.
This feature allows you to browse journals by subject. To get to it, click on 'By Subject' in the 'Browse Journals' menu that appears on the left-hand side of every page.
All the available subjects are listed at the top of the page. Click on a subject to see the list of journals Cambridge publishes in that field.
To look at a particular journal, click on the journal's title and you will go through to the journal's homepage.
Icons
You will see a number of different icons next to each journal title:
- H - indicates that articles are available in HTML. (All Cambridge Journals are available as PDFs and most are also available in HTML.)
- F - indicates that certain articles are free. This free access may be available to all visitors or to particular organisation members.
- T - indicates that access to certain articles is available on a trial basis. This trial access may be available to all visitors or to particular organisation members for a specified period of time.
This feature allows you to browse through the entire list of Cambridge Journals alphabetically. You can either scroll down the list or click on the appropriate letter at the top of the page. Clicking on a journal title will take you to the journal homepage.
Icons
You may see a number of different icons next to each journal title:
- H - indicates that articles are available in HTML. (All Cambridge Journals are available as PDFs and some are also available in HTML.)
- F - indicates that certain articles are free. This free access may be available to all visitors or to particular organisation members.
- T - indicates that access to certain articles is available on a trial basis. This trial access may be available to all visitors or to particular organisation members for a specified period of time.
This feature allows you to browse the journals to which you have full-text access. To get to this page click on 'Subscribed to' in the 'Browse Journals' menu that appears on the left-hand side of every page.
The page is divided into sections showing the different types of access you might have:
- Free journals that are available to all visitors.
- Individual subscriptions are those journals to which you have a personal subscription.
- Organisational subscriptions are those journals you have access to because you belong to an organisation that has bought a subscription. If you belong to more than one such organisation, this section will display separate lists of journals provided by each organisation.
These are followed by a list of the journals not currently available to you and finally a list of those Cambridge journals that do not have any online content at present.
To look at a particular journal, click on the journal's title and you will go through to the journal homepage.
To change your password you need to be logged in. Click on 'Change registration details' in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu that appears at the bottom left-hand side of every page. Go to the 'Password' input field (you may have to scroll down to find it) and delete the existing password. Enter your new password and repeat the process in the 'Confirm Password' input field below. Type a new question or sentence that will remind you of your password in the 'Question' input field, then click 'Update' at the bottom of the page.
To change any of your registration details you need to be logged in. Click on the 'Change Registration Details' link in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu to take you to the registration page. Find the appropriate input fields and make the necessary changes. Once you are sure that all the required fields have been completed, click 'Update' at the bottom of the page.
This feature allows you to receive emails telling you when an article you are interested in has been cited in another publication.
To use this feature you need to have registered and logged in.
Go to the journal's homepage and click on the issue you are interested in. This will bring up the table of contents for that issue. You can set up citation alerts for a particular article by clicking on either the link to the 'Abstract' or to the 'HTML' - which will appear if you have access to the full-text. Clicking on either link will open a new window.
At the top right-hand side of the new page you will see the Volume number followed by a number of links. Click on 'Citation alert'. This will take you to another page called 'My citation alerts'. The article you have selected will be displayed. Next to the article a drop-down menu allows you to set the frequency with which you want Cambridge Journals Online to check for citations. Your options are weekly or monthly. Enter your email address into the 'Email address' text box and click the 'Update' button at the top or bottom of the page. You also have the option to turn off the alert (and, later, to come back and re-instate it) or to delete it altogether.
Once you have added an article to 'My citation alerts' you will receive regular emails informing you if the article has been cited elsewhere. The email will include full citation details (title, author, journal, volume, issue, page number) of the citing article and a link through to it.
This feature appears at the top right of every page throughout Cambridge Journals Online, immediately below 'Quick Search'.
'Cite Search' provides you with a quick way of searching for content if you have an article citation to hand, or if you know some or all of the bibliographic details of the content you are looking for - even if it is just the journal title.
To use 'Cite Search' start typing the journal title you are interested in into the first box. As you type, a list of journals matching your search term will appear. Select the journal by scrolling down the list and clicking on it. If you click on 'Find' at this point you will be taken to the journal's hompage. If you have more information about the article you are looking for you can use any or all of the other fields (Author, Year, Volume, Issue, Page) to narrow your search further. By completing the Volume and Issue fields you will be taken directly to the table of contents you are looking for.
Note, however, that you can use any of the fields on their own (once you have selected a journal) except for the 'Page' field. If you try to do this you will see an error message asking you to enter more data.
If you are the Account Administrator for your organisation you can use this feature to receive emails telling you when a journal subscription is about to expire.
To use this feature, you must be registered as an Account Administrator and have logged in. You will then see the 'Account Administrator' menu on the left-hand side of every page throughout the site. Click on 'Expiry alerts'. This will take you to a page listing all your organisation's journal subscriptions. Each journal has a subscription number next to it. Clicking on the subscription number for the journal you are interested in takes you to a new page. To set up an email alert that will arrive before the subscription expires, check the 'Alert me prior to expiry' box. You can then choose how long before the expiry date you want to receive the alert by checking the appropriate box: 7 days, 14 days or 28 days.
You can also choose to receive an alert after the subscription has expired as well as - or instead of - receiving alerts prior to the expiry date. To do this, check the 'Receive alerts after expiry' box.
You can then choose who will receive the email alerts. The email address you have registered with us will automatically appear in the first 'Email Address' box. If you want to change that, just type in the email address you want it to be sent to instead. If you want the alerts to be sent to some of your colleagues as well, you can enter their email addresses in the 'Copy to Email Address' text box, separated by a comma.
When you have set up the expiry alert, click 'Update' at the bottom of the page.
This feature allows you either to download citations to your desktop to use with your bibliographic software or to email them to a colleague.
You can export citations from a number of different places within Cambridge Journals Online:
1. The table of contents for the journal issue you are interested in. Having located the relevant article(s) check the box next to it/them. Then click the 'Export Citation(s)' button which you will find at both the top and the bottom of the table of contents. This is a particularly useful method if you want to download a number of different citations from within the same journal issue.
2. The abstract of the article you are interested in. Click the 'Export Citation' link at the top of the page.
3. The HTML version of the article itself also has an 'Export Citation' link at the top of the page. (You can only access this if you or your library subscribes to the journal and the journal is available in HTML.)
Clicking on 'Export Citation' in any of these places will bring up a new page.
First choose whether to export just the citation or the citation plus the abstract.
Then choose the format you prefer by clicking on the corresponding radio button. You can choose from a number of different formats depending on what you want to do with the citation. If you are using specialist reference management software you can choose downloads that are compatible with: Biblioscape, BibTex, EndNote, Medlars, Papyrus, ProCite, Reference Manager and RefWorks. Or you can choose to export as ASCII plain text, CSV, RIS or HTML.
To email the citation, enter your colleague's email address into the input field then click 'Email' at the bottom of the page. To download the citation to your computer, leave the 'Email' box empty and click 'Download' at the bottom of the page. A 'File Download' dialogue box will appear and ask you to save the file to your computer.
This page allows you to identify your key journals so that you can easily locate and track the content that is most relevant to you.
Once you have selected the journals you are most interested in, they will automatically appear in the 'Favourites' page in the 'Browse Journals' menu. We can also keep you up-to-date with any new content added to your favourite journals by sending you email alerts when new issues or articles are published online.
To select your favourite journals you will need to have registered and be logged in. Click on 'Favourite Journals' in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu. Find the journal(s) you are interested in, click the corresponding checkbox under the 'Add' column and then click 'Update' at the bottom of the page. If you click the 'Enable Email Alert' checkbox at the bottom of the page, you will receive new content alerts for your favourite journals. Alternatively, click on 'More email alert preferences' to refine your email alert preferences further.
This page allows you to identify your key area(s) of interest. We will keep you informed of news and developments across the subjects you have selected.
To use this feature you need to have registered and be logged in. Go to 'Favourite Subjects' in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu and choose your favourite subjects by clicking on the corresponding checkbox under the 'Add' column. Then click 'Update' at the bottom of the page.
If you have forgotten your password, click on 'Forgot your password?' in the 'Log In' box that appears at the top left of every page. This will bring up a new page. Enter your email address in the 'Email' input field. You can then choose between two options. Either we can email you the prompt you gave us when you completed the registration page that will remind you of your password. Or we can send you an email containing your username and a temporary password. This temporary password can be used to log in to your account. You will then be able to access the 'Update registration details' page and change the temporary password to a new one of your choosing. (See Help on 'Change password').
Note: you can now log in using either your username and password or your email address and password. Usernames and passwords are case-sensitive.
Emailing abstracts
This feature makes it easy to forward an abstract to a colleague.
Open the abstract you are interested in. Then click on the 'Email abstract' link. This will open a new page where you should enter your name and email address, and your colleague's name, department and email address into the relevant boxes. If you want to add a message you can do so in the 'Message' box. Click 'Submit' to send the email.
This feature allows you to forward a table of contents to an interested colleague. To use this feature you need to have registered and be logged in.
Find the table of contents for the journal issue you are interested in (accessible from the journal's homepage). Click on 'Forward TOC' in the right-hand navigation panel. This will open a new page. Enter your name and email address, your colleague's name, email address and department into the relevant boxes and add any message you wish to include in the 'Message' box. When you are ready to send the email, click 'Submit'.
Information about advertising in a particular journal can be accessed from the journal's home page. Under 'More Information' in the right-hand navigation panel, click on 'Advertising information'.
The Advertising information pages provide details for prospective advertisers on the types of advertisements a journal will accept, their booking and copy dates and the costs of advertising. It is possible to advertise in both the print versions (display advertising, loose inserts and list rental) and online versions (banner advertisements) of most Cambridge Journals.
For more information about advertising in Cambridge Journals, contact our advertising sales department at ad_sales@cambridge.org.
Information about a journal's Impact Factor can be accessed from the journal's home page. Under 'More Information' in the right-hand navigation panel, click on 'Impact Factor'. If the journal has been included in Thomson Scientific's 'Web of Knowledge', the page will display the journal's impact factor and its ranking within its subject category.
Note: For more information about impact factors, visit the Thomson website.
Instructions for contributors can be accessed from the journal's home page. Under 'More Information' in the right-hand navigation panel, click on 'Instructions for Contributors'. The instructions for contributors are provided by the journal's editorial team as a PDF document.
If you are a registered user you must log in to use your customised features. If you are an Account Administrator you need to be logged in to access your administration tools. See Help on 'Registration'.
You can log in from any page by entering your username or email address and password into the 'Log In' box and clicking on the 'log in' button.
You can also log in using your Athens or Shibboleth username and password by clicking on the appropriate link. See Help on 'Athens' and 'Shibboleth'.
If you are logged in your name/organisation will appear at the top of the page. If you are not logged in you will appear as 'Guest' in the 'Log In' box.
If you are unable to log in because you have forgotten your password, see Help on 'Forgotten password'.
Note: If you have two accounts on Cambridge Journals Online and are having difficulty logging in using your second username and password go to 'Change registration details' and un-tick the check box 'I am the only person using this computer and I would like to use a cookie to remember my username and password.' See also our related FAQ on cookies.
To log out of Cambridge Journals Online, click the 'Log out' button that appears at the top left of every page.
If you are using a shared computer (in a library, for example) you should also close your internet browser to stop other users getting access to your personal data.
Use this page to manage your citation alerts. Citation alerts are email alerts you can choose to receive telling you when an article you are interested in has been cited in another publication.
You have to be registered and to have logged in to get access to this page. Once you are logged in you will see the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu at the bottom left-hand side of all pages throughout the site. Click on 'My citation alerts'. This opens a new page listing all the articles for which you have chosen to receive citation alerts. (To set up a citation alert in the first place you need to go to either the article abstract or to the HTML version of the article for which you want to receive citation alerts. See 'Citation alerts' Help for more information.)
'My citation alerts' gives you the option of changing the frequency with which you receive email alerts. The 'Alert Frequency' drop-down menu allows you to choose either weekly or monthly alerts. If you want to change the email address to which the alerts are sent, type the new address into the 'Email Address' box. If you want to suspend alerts temporarily for one or more articles, use the 'Turn Off Alert' check box next to the article(s) concerned. If you want to cancel one or more alerts altogether, use the 'Delete' check box.
When you have made the changes you require, click the 'Update' button that appears at the top and bottom of the page. If you want to cancel the changes you have made, use the 'Reset' button which also appears at the top and bottom of the page.
'My saved searches' allows you to retrieve your previously saved searches so that you can re-run them. If you have registered and logged in you can choose to save any search from a search results page. In addition, Cambridge Journals Online automatically saves your last ten search parameters for you.
'My Saved Searches' appears in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' menu at the bottom left-hand side of every page. The page is divided into three sections.
1. Last ten search parameters
The last ten search parameters you have used appear at the top of the page. To re-run the search, click the 'Run' button. The search will include any new content that has been added since you last ran it.
2. Saved search results
This type of saved search allows you to save a set of search results. Once saved, these sets of results will remain the same even though new articles will be published on Cambridge Journals Online that fit the same search criteria. To access a saved search result, click on the 'Run' button next to the search results you are interested in.
3. Saved search parameters
These are the search parameters you have specifically saved, as opposed to the last ten parameters that are automatically saved for you.
If you have saved your search parameters you can re-run the search whenever you like by clicking the 'Run' button next to the search you are interested in. You can also ask Cambridge Journals Online to re-run the search for you automatically, as often as you like. To do this, go to the input field under the 'Run every x (days)' column and enter how often you would like the search run. Then click 'Update' at the bottom of the page.
To delete a search from any of the lists, click the corresponding checkbox under the 'Delete' column and then click the 'Delete' button. Click the 'Select all' corresponding checkbox to select all search entries in the list.
Note: This feature is only available to registered users.
This page allows Account Administrators to create a new remote user. (A remote user is a member of an organisation who needs access to organisational journal subscriptions from a computer outside the designated IP range.)
The page is reached by going to 'Remote user access' and clicking on 'New remote user'.
To create a new remote user, complete the form. The 'Activation Date' is when the user will have access to the organisation's subscriptions. It defaults to today's date (ie the date you create the record) but you can change it if you want to defer their access until a later date. The 'Expiration date' is an optional field you can use if you want to limit the user's access to a specific time-frame. Make sure all the required fields have been completed then click 'Save' at the bottom of the page.
This feature allows Account Administrators to provide the URL of their local OpenURL resolver.
This will help your users follow up citations to articles you hold in your collection. When a user clicks on the 'Open URL query data' link in a Cambridge full-text HTML article, they will see both a search string that complies with the OpenURL standard and a link to your resolver. This makes it very easy for them simply to copy and paste the search string directly into your resolver.
To set this up, go to the OpenURL resolver page in the Account Adminstrator's menu. If you have previously provided a URL it will be displayed as the 'Current URL resolver'. To change it, or to provide the information for the first time, enter the URL into the 'New URL resolver' box, then click 'Update'.
COinS and Zotero
COinS (Context Objects in Spans) is a way of embedding OpenURL references in HTML. COinS bibliographic metadata is now embedded in the header and references of all Cambridge Journals Online articles. The metadata is invisible to readers but can be found and downloaded by the relevant processing software to create OpenURL links for library users.
Zotero is a Firefox extension which helps users collect and manage citations. It senses COinS metadata and downloads it with one click. If you have Zotero installed you will seen an 'article' icon in the address bar when you are looking at an abstract, or a 'folder' icon when viewing a table of contents. By clicking the icon you can download the article citation or select individual articles from the table of contents.
Pay-per-view articles are individual journal articles you can buy access to on a time-restricted basis. Cambridge Journals Online pay-per-view articles are accessible for 48 hours from the time of purchase. Once you have access to the article you may download it to your computer for your personal use.
To buy pay-per-view articles you need to be registered and have logged in. Find the article(s) you are interested in either via a table of contents or a search results listing then click the 'Add to basket' link below the article you are interested in. You can add more than one article to your basket at a time by clicking the 'Add to basket' checkboxes to the right of each relevant article and then clicking the 'Add to basket' button at the bottom of the page.
Once you have clicked 'Add to basket' you will be taken through to the shopping basket from where you should follow the instructions for making payment.
My pay-per-view articles
This page allows you to view all your Pay-Per-View articles, both active and expired. It also allows you to buy your articles again once your access has expired.
The 'Date Purchased' column shows when the articles were purchased and the 'Hours Remaining' column show how long you have before your access expires.
When the articles are active the links to the content (PDF, HTML, PS, etc.) are present. When the articles have expired an 'Add to Basket' link appears instead.
Viewing Articles in PDF
All Cambridge Journals Online articles are available as PDFs (Portable Document Format). PDFs show the articles on screen as they appear on the printed page. To view PDF articles, you need Adobe's Acrobat Reader. This is freely available and can be downloaded from the Adobe website.
If you are not responsible for maintaining your computers you should consult with your library administrator or IT/MIS staff before downloading any software.
Use this feature to recommend a particular journal to your librarian.
'Recommend this journal' is accessible from a journal's home page and any of its information pages. It appears in the right-hand navigation panel.
Clicking on 'Recommend this journal' opens an online library recommendation form.
If you prefer to send your recommendation by mail or internal post rather than by email, you can print out a PDF order form instead.
If we have your librarian's details (based on your IP address) in our database, they will appear in the drop-down list of 'library administrators'. If you click on your library administrator, his/her email address will automatically appear in the 'Email' box below. If your librarian doesn't appear on the list, you can enter a new email address into the 'Email' box. You should then enter your title (optional), first name, family name, department and email address in the relevant boxes.
The title, ISSN and EISSN of the journal you were looking at automatically appears on the page. If you would like to change the journal you want to recommend or add others to your list, click on the arrow at the end of the 'Journal Title' box(es) to bring up a complete list of Cambridge Journals for you to choose from.
You can then choose from a number of different reasons to make your case for recommending this/these journals or you can click on the 'Other reasons' box and add your own supporting message.
Finally, click 'Submit'.
Once your payment has been confirmed, an online receipt will be displayed. You can print this receipt by clicking the 'Print receipt' button. (You will also automatically receive confirmation of your purchase by email.)
The items that you have purchased will be displayed below the receipt with links directly to them. If you have bought a pay-per-view article, the link gives you
immediate access to the content you have just purchased. If you have bought a subscription, the link will take you to the journal home page from where you will be able to access the full-text articles.
Alternatively, you can click 'Done' at this point which will take you back to the Cambridge Journals Online homepage.
You will now be able to view all your subscriptions by using the 'Subscribed to' link in the 'Browse Journals' panel. You can view all your purchased pay-per-view articles in the 'My pay-per-view articles' link in the 'My Cambridge Journals Online' panel.
This page displays the information we hold for you as a registered user or Account Administrator. We will use this information to process the order (including shipping any print copies to the address shown) unless you change it now.
If the information is still correct, and you want us to use those contact details to process your order click 'Next' at the bottom of the page.
If the information needs updating, make the necessary changes in the relevant input fields, then click the 'Tick this box to make changes permanent to your registration details' box before clicking 'Next'.
If the information remains correct but you want to use different contact details to process your order (for example, if you want print copies shipped to a different address), make the necessary changes in the input fields but leave blank the 'Tick this box to make changes permanent to your registration details' box.
Only Account Administrators can buy organisational subscriptions. If you are a registered user belonging to an organisation (and are not the Account Administrator), and you have put an organisational subscription into your shopping basket, you will not be allowed to complete the purchase. You will instead be asked to send an email to your organisation's Account Administrator to purchase the organisational subscription on your behalf.
You will automatically be re-directed to a 'Message organisation administrator' page. Go to the drop-down menu where you will see a list of the organisations Cambridge Journals Online identifies as ones to which you belong. Click on the appropriate organisation and the Account Administrator's email address will appear in the 'Email' box. If your organisation does not appear on the list but you know your Account Administrator's email address, enter it manually into the box. The journal subscription you wish to buy will appear in the 'Message' box below. Add your own message, then click 'Send email'.
If your organisation does not already have an account with Cambridge Journals Online you have the option of creating a new account. Click the 'create an organisation' link at the bottom of the page and you will be asked to set up a new account. Once you have done that you will be able to proceed with your purchase. Note: you will automatically become that organisation's Account Administrator with sole responsibility for buying organisational subscriptions and managing access to them.
This tool allows Account Administrators to change any of their organisation's details, including any messages they may want their users to see. Click on 'Update organisation details' in the Account Administrator's menu. You will see a number of fields already filled in with details you supplied when you registered.
Type: click on the drop-down menu to select the description that matches your organisation. This information makes it easier for us to tailor our service to meet your needs.
Athens ID: enter your Athens ID here. (Note: if you have not already done so, you will need to contact Customer Services with your Athens ID to set up Athens access for your users. See Help on Athens for more information.)
Organisation Name: the name of your organisation.
Display Name: how your organisation's name will appear to your users.
Display Message: use this text box to add (or change) a message that your users will see the top of each page. For example, this could be who to contact if they have a query. You can use up to 150 characters.
Address Details: this is the address we will use if we need to contact you so it is important that this is correct.
Make sure all the required fields have been filled in (marked with an asterisk), then click 'Update' at the bottom of the page.
This feature allows users to see at a glance a journal's most frequently cited articles in the past two years or since publication. The data is taken directly from the CrossRef database and updated monthly.
Go to the journal's homepage. 'Most-Cited Articles' appears near the bottom of the menu at the right-hand side of the page. You can choose to see the top ten most frequently cited articles in the past two years or for the journal as a whole.
As the Account Administrator you can upload an image that will be displayed on all the pages that your users will see. We suggest that you use your organisation's logo. In order for your image to be displayed correctly, it must be be no larger than 150 x 150 pixels.
To upload a logo, click the 'Browse' button. This will open a dialogue box that allows you to browse your local hard drive (or network) and select the image you would like to use. When you have found the logo, click 'Open'. The dialogue box will automatically close. Now click 'Upload logo' and the new organisation logo will appear on the page and will be displayed throughout the site.
If you are replacing an existing logo, at this point refresh the page by hitting the F5 key on your keyboard. The new logo will now replace the old one. To remove an existing logo, click 'Remove logo' at the bottom of the page. When you are finished, click 'Done' to return you to the homepage.
This page allows Account Administrators to change their remote users' information and to control their access rights. (A remote user is a member of an organisation who needs access to organisational journal subscriptions from a computer outside the designated IP range.)
The page is reached by going to 'Remote user access' and clicking on the name of the remote user whose details you want to change.
To change a remote user's details, click the relevant input field(s) and update the existing data. Make sure all the required fields have been completed then click the 'Update' button at the bottom of the page.
Account Administrators can also activate or deactivate users (depending on their current status) and delete remote users.
To activate a remote user, click the 'Activate user' button at the top of the page. The user will now have access to the organisational subscriptions. This button will be replaced by a 'Deactivate user' button.
To deactivate a user, click the 'Deactivate user' button at the top of the page. The user will no longer have access to the organisational subscriptions. This button will be replaced by an 'Activate user' button.
To delete a remote user, click the 'Delete user' button at the top of the page.
You can use the Cambridge Journals Online shopping basket to buy journal subscriptions and pay-per-view articles securely using your credit card. Note: Cambridge University Press does not store any of your credit card information. We pass it immediately and securely to our payment facility partners. See Help on Shopping basket - Payflow Pro for more information.
Enter your credit card details into the appropriate boxes. The email address displayed in the 'Confirmation email address' box is taken from the details you gave us when you confirmed your name and address but you can change it at this point if you would like us to email your confirmation to a different address. When you are ready, click 'Confirm Order'.
If you wish to purchase a subscription to a journal on behalf of your organisation, and you are a registered user but your organisation has not yet registered with us, you will be asked to set up a new account before you can make the purchase. Enter your organisation details, making sure that you complete the required information fields marked with an asterisk (*), then click 'Next'.
Note: You will become the Account Administrator of the organisation you have registered. An Account Administrator is the person solely responsible for buying subscriptions and managing online access for a subscribing organisation.
'Subscription details' appears in the Account Administrator's menu and lists all your organisation's activated subscriptions to Cambridge journals. Beneath the title of each journal listed, it shows the most recent volume your organisation has access to.
Some journals provide a complete list of the supplementary materials that have been published alongside particular articles. If this feature is available for the journal you are interested in, you will see a link to 'Supplementary Materials' just above 'Available Volumes' on the journal's homepage. The list is organised by date of publication, with the most recently published article appearing at the top.
Shibboleth allows users to access a wide range of online resources using an institutional ID and password.
Individual users
You can use the Shibboleth log in if your institution has a Shibboleth-based identity management system in place, is a member of a Federation and the Federation is set up with Cambridge. To log in you will need to use the name and password provided by your institution. Contact your librarian in the first instance to find out if your institution has set up the Shibboleth SAML-based access management system.
Librarians
If your institution is not currently using Shibboleth and would like to do so, you need to register with the appropriate Federation. (Federations are typically operating at the national level.) Once you have registered, the Federation will inform Cambridge Customer Services so that we can enable access for your institutional users.
If your institution has set up Shibboleth and users are unable to log in using the 'Shibboleth log in' box, contact Customer Services for assistance.
To find out more, visit the Shibboleth website.
Social bookmarking
The 'Social bookmarking' feature provides users with an easy way to save links they want to remember or share with colleagues. Depending on which social bookmarking or networking site you use, the bookmarks can be saved either:
- so that they can be shared only within a particular community or group
- or so that they are available to all members of a particular network
The services Cambridge currently supports include: Del.icio.us, Connotea, Bibsonomy, Furl, Digg, Reddit and Facebook.
You can create bookmarks to:
- particular journals by going to the journal homepage
- particular issues by going to the table of contents page
- individual articles by going to the article abstract or the HTML version of the article
Journal homepage or table of contents
To save a bookmark to a particular journal or issue, go to the journal's homepage or the relevant table of contents. On the right-hand side of the page you will see a 'Social bookmarking' menu listing a number of different social bookmarking and networking sites. If you have already registered with one of these sites, all you need to do is click on the link of the site you belong to and the journal will automatically be bookmarked to that site. If you are not already logged into the site, it will ask you to do so before your bookmark is uploaded.
Article abstract or HTML
You can save a bookmark to a particular article by going to the article's abstract or, if you have access to the full text of the journal and it is available in HTML, by going to the HTML version. In either case, you will see a link to 'Social bookmarking' at the top of the page. Click on this link to bring up the list of social bookmarking and networking sites for you to choose from.
Request permissions
This feature simplifies the process of obtaining permission to quote some or all of an article in another context. Note: this feature is not currently available for society-owned journals.
You will find links to 'Request Permissions' (for participating journals) below the article title in the table of contents or search results list. You can also find links in the article's abstract and the HTML version of the full text.
Clicking on Request Permissions takes you to the Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink service. You will be asked a number of questions about how you would like to use the content and a quick price is calculated for you. If you are happy to proceed Rightslink's online shopping facility allows you to buy the license. Onscreen help is provided on the Rightslink site.
Usage of the Cambridge Journals Online site is being constantly monitored to prevent abuse of Cambridge Journals content.
In the course of an hour, a Cambridge Journals Online user accessing the site from a single IP address is allowed to view 1,000 pages from the site as a whole, of which 100 pages may be full-text article downloads.
Proxy servers are allowed to download 4,000 pages per hour of which 200 may be full-text articles. Search engine robots are allowed to view an unlimited number of pages. If the approved number of downloads is exceeded, the user sees a message to that effect and asks them to resume activity in an hour.
This feature is for Account Administrators. It allows you to set up and manage remote user access to your organisational subscriptions. A remote user is a member of your organisation who needs access to journal subscriptions from a computer outside your designated IP range.
Click on the 'Remote User Access' page in the Account Administrator's menu. If you have already set up remote access for some of your users, the details will be displayed on the page.
Setting up a new remote user
To create a new remote user, click the 'New remote user' button at the top of the page. You will be sent to a new page to enter the name, country, username and password of the new user. (See Help on 'New remote user' for more detailed instructions.)
Managing your list of remote users
To change any information about an existing remote user, or to delete, de-activate or re-activate them, click on their name where it appears in the 'Name' column. This will take you to the user's details page. (See Help on 'Update remote user' for more detailed instructions.)
Sorting the remote user list
The list defaults to being ordered by 'Remote User ID', in ascending order.
You can change how the list is displayed by choosing a different 'Sort by' option from the drop-down menu: Remote User ID, Last Name, First Name, Expiration Date, Activated.
You can also control how many results appear per page. The default is 10 results per page. You can change this by using the 'Results per page' drop-down menu.
You can jump to a specific page in the list by using the 'Go to page' menu or you can use the 'first', 'previous', 'next' and 'last' links to navigate the list.
If you belong to an organisation and want to have temporary remote access to the organisation's journal subscriptions (for instance, while you are travelling), you can ask your Account Administrator to set this up for you. Click the link below. This will take you to a new page from where you can email your Account Administrator. A drop-down menu will appear from which you should be able to select your Account Administrator's details. However, if Cambridge Journals Online has been unable to identify your Account Administrator and you know their email address, you can enter it into the 'Email' box. A standard message will appear in the 'Message' box but you can personalise it by simply typing in the box. Note: this link only works if you have registered and are currently logged in.
Request remote access
There are two ways to save articles:
Table of contents
Go to the relevant table of contents and click the checkbox(es) next to the article(s) you are interested in. Then click the 'Save to my saved articles' button that appears at the top and bottom of the page.
Search results
After viewing the results of a basic or advanced search, click the checkbox(es) next to the article(s) you are interested in, then click the 'Save to my saved articles' button that appears at the top and bottom of the page.
My saved articles
'My saved articles' allows you to view all the articles you have previously saved. To delete an article from the list, click the corresponding checkbox and then click 'Delete articles'. Click the 'Select all' corresponding checkbox to select all articles in the list.
Note: This feature is only available to registered users.
You can create bookmarks within Cambridge Journals Online so that you can easily return to key journals or specific issues. You need to be registered and logged in to use this feature.
Bookmark a journal
Go to the journal's homepage and click 'Bookmark this journal' in the right-hand navigation panel, just below the journal cover.
Bookmark an issue
Go to a table of contents and click 'Bookmark this issue' in the right-hand navigation panel, just below the journal cover.
My saved bookmarks
Use 'My saved bookmarks' to return to bookmarks you have already created. Each bookmark entry shows the date when the bookmark was saved. The bookmarks are listed in the order you saved them (ie by date). To list them alphabetically by title use the 'Sort by' menu.
To delete a bookmark from the list, click the corresponding checkbox and then click 'Delete bookmarks'. Click the 'Select all' checkbox to select all bookmarks in the list.
'Save search' allows you to either save a set of search results or to save the search parameters you used in a Quick or Advanced search. Saved search parameters can then be used at a later date to re-run your searches to include new content that has been published on the site.
Note: Cambridge Journals Online automatically saves your last ten search parameters which can be found on your 'My saved searches' page.
Searching Cambridge Journals Online will produce a list of search results. Click on 'Save search' to bring up a new page. You must give your saved search a name so that you can identify it later. Enter the name into the 'Search Title' input field.
Save search results
To save your search results, click the 'results' radio button then click 'Save' at the bottom of the page. This will save the first 100 results. You can view your saved search results by going to the 'My saved searches' page.
Save search parameters
To save your search parameters, click the 'parameters' radio button. You can choose to have the search re-run automatically to take account of new content being published on the site. You can decide how often (in days) you want the search to be re-run and you can have the results emailed to you by entering your email address in the corresponding input field. You will receive this email every time the search is run. If you leave the 'Re-run search every x days' field blank, your parameters will be saved to your 'My saved searches' page, from where you can use them to run manual searches. To save the parameters, click 'Save' at the bottom of the page.
This feature allows you to save the search parameters you have used in a quick or advanced search. You can then use the same parameters at a later date to re-run searches that include any new content that has been added to the site.
Note: Cambridge Journals Online automatically saves your last ten search parameters which can be found on your 'My saved searches' page.
Saving search parameters
Searching Cambridge Journals Online will produce a list of search results. Click on 'Save search' to bring up a new page.
First, you must give your saved search a name so that you can identify it later. Enter the name into the 'Search Title' input field. You can choose to have the search re-run automatically and you can decide how often (in days) you want it re-run. You can also have the results emailed to you by entering your email address in the corresponding input field. You will receive this email every time the search is run. If you leave the 'Re-run search every x days' field blank, your parameters will be saved to your 'My saved searches' page, from where you can use them to run manual searches. To save the parameters, click 'Save' at the bottom of the page.
You can use our online shopping facility to purchase organisational or individual subscriptions and pay-per-view articles. For some journals, you can also buy the online version of single issues.
The shopping basket is split into two parts - one for individual purchases and one for organisational purchases. This means we can charge/invoice you separately if you are buying some items for personal use and some on behalf of your organisation. If you are purchasing only one kind of item (either individual or organisational), you will see only one basket. If you are buying a combination of the two, you will see both baskets on the same page.
If you prefer to send your order and payment by mail, you can print out a PDF subscription form by following the link that appears immediately above the shopping basket.
To delete items from your shopping basket, click the checkbox that appears next to the item in the 'Delete' column, then click the 'Delete item' button at the bottom of the basket. The page will be reloaded and your item removed from the basket.
To change the quantity of an individual or organisational subscription in your basket, update the number that appears in the 'Quantity' box next to the item concerned and click the 'Update basket' button at the bottom of the basket. The page will be reloaded.
If you want to continue shopping for more items before checking out, click the 'Continue shopping' button and you will be taken out of the basket back to the page you came from. The items you already have in the basket will be saved until you return to complete the transaction.
Once you are satisfied with the items in your shopping basket click the 'Next' button. Note: Checking out of individual and organisational shopping baskets are done as two separate proccesses. If you have both personal and organisational items in your basket, you will need to complete one transaction then return to the basket to complete the other.
Cambridge Journals Online uses membership numbers to identify society members so that we can give them full-text access to society journals.
Society Administrators should contact their nearest Customer Services team to supply the necessary information.
In the USA, Canada or Mexico, email: subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org
In the UK, Europe or rest of world email: journals@cambridge.org
Some journals make available a standard 'Transfer of Copyright' form from their homepage. This is a PDF document that journal contributors can print off, complete and mail back to the address given.
For those journals for which it is available, the 'Transfer of Copyright' form can be found in the 'Journal Information' menu at the right-hand side of the journal homepage.
Note
It is common practice for journals to acquire copyright in all contributions. There are two reasons for this: (a) ownership of copyright by one central organisation tends to ensure maximum international protection against unauthorised use; (b) it also ensures that requests by third parties to reprint or reproduce a contribution, or part of it, are handled efficiently and in accordance with a general policy that is sensitive both to any relevant changes in international copyright legislation and to the general desirability of encouraging the dissemination of knowledge. You can find more information about transfer of copyright on the form itself.
This feature gives users a quick and easy way to add a reference to an article to their blog or online community profile.
To blog an article, you need to go to either the article's abstract or to the full-text HTML of the article if it is available. In both cases, you will see a link to 'Blog this Article' in the menu at the top right-hand side of the page.
Clicking on this link opens a new window where you will see some code which you can cut and paste into your blog. It will display as the article's title and author(s), the journal issue it appears in and it will give a link to the article's abstract.
Some Cambridge journals are encouraging readers to respond online to individual articles.
If a journal is accepting comments in this way, a link to 'Comments' will be displayed beneath the article details in the table of contents or search results listing. (You can also access this feature from the article's abstract or the full text HTML.) The number of comments already made about the article is shown in brackets next to the 'Comments' link. Note: to have access to this feature you need to be a registered user and have logged in and have access to the full text of the article via either a library, society or personal subscription.
To receive alerts when new comments are posted about a particular article, you can either
- click on the 'Comments' link that appears beneath the article details and then, in the new window, click on 'New comment alert'
or
- go to the article's abstract of full text HTML and click on the 'Comments alert' link that appears in the top right-hand menu.
Clicking on any of these links takes you to 'My Comments Alerts' where you will see details of the article you are interested in displayed. You are given a number of options:
- you can choose to receive your alerts on a weekly or monthly basis
- you can have then sent to another email address by overwriting the one displayed
- you can temporarily suspend the alerts by clicking the 'Turn off alert' checkbox
- you can delete it altogther by checking the 'Delete' box
First View articles
An increasing number of journals are making articles available online as soon as they are ready for publication - without waiting for the issue to which they belong to be published. These articles are called 'First View' articles on Cambridge Journals Online.
Journals that are publishing incrementally in this way have a link on the journal homepage to 'First View Articles' immediately under the heading 'Available Volumes'.
Contents Alerts
You can choose to be notified by email when new First View articles appear on Cambridge Journals Online. See Help on Content Alerts for more information.
Clicking on 'Free content' in the 'Browse Journals' menu on the left-hand side of each page opens up a new page where you can browse all the content that is available free of charge on Cambridge Journals Online.
The content is split into four sections: Free Journals, Free Volumes, Free Issues and Free Articles. Each section is displayed as an expandable/collapsable list. To view the content in a particular section click on the '+' sign next to the section heading. To collapse a list, click on the '-' sign next to the section heading.
Some Cambridge journals are encouraging readers to respond online to individual articles.
If a journal is accepting comments in this way, a link to 'Comments' will be displayed beneath the article details in the table of contents or search results listing. You can also access this feature from the article's abstract or the full text HTML. The number of comments already made about the article is shown in brackets next to the 'Comments' link. Note: to have access to this feature you need to be a registered user and have logged in and have access to the full text of the article via either a library, society or personal subscription.
Clicking on 'Comments' opens a new page which gives you the option of submitting a comment and/or setting up an email alert to let you know when new comments are posted online. See Help on Comments Alerts for more information.
To submit a comment, click on the 'Comment on this article' button. This will take you to a new page displaying the contact details we hold for you as a registered user. You will be asked to fill in any missing information and to confirm either that you have no competing interests in posting your comments or, if you do, to disclose what those competing interests are. You will then be asked to give your comment a title, to add the names, affiliations and email addresses of any co-authors to the comment and then, having read and accepted the terms and conditions, to enter the comment into the box provided. All comments submitted will be moderated by the journal's editors before appearing online.
The 'Quick Search' box appears at the top right-hand side of every page throughout the site. Underneath it you will see links to Advanced Search and CrossRef Search and, beneath them, the Cite Search boxes.
Quick Search
To use the Quick Search facility, enter your search terms into the box and click 'Search'. This will run a search runs across the full text of all articles on the site and their associated metadata fields (title, author names, keywords, etc). If you want to search Cambridge Journals Online for something other than journals content, click the 'Search Other Content' radio button before entering your search term. This will search across all the information pages but will not search the journals' content.
You will find this feature in a table of contents or a search results listing if you are a library or institutional user but do not have access to the full text of an article you are interested in. It allows you to email your librarian to ask if they will buy the article on your behalf or take out a subscription to the journal as a whole.
A link to 'Ask Your Librarian' appears beneath the article's title and bibliographic details, next to 'Add to Basket'. Clicking on the link brings up a new page, displaying the article's details at the top.
If we have your librarian's details (based on your IP address) in our database, they will appear in the drop-down list of 'library administrators'. If you click on your library administrator, his/her email address will automatically appear in the 'Email' box below. If your librarian doesn't appear on the list, you can enter a new email address into the 'Email' box. You should then enter your first name, family name, department and email address in the relevant boxes.
'Your request' gives you the option of asking for just this article ('Article request') or for a subscription to the journal. The 'Message' box gives you space to make a case for why the library should make the purchase.
Finally, click 'Submit'.
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