My article, ‘History without royalty? Queen and the strata of the popular music canon’, published in Popular Music (32.3), investigates canonisation processes in popular music, using Queen as a case study. …
Childhood bullying shown to increase likelihood of psychotic experiences in later life New research has shown that being exposed to bullying during childhood will lead to an increased risk of psychotic experiences in adulthood, regardless of whether they are victims or perpetrators.…
The latest issue of Theatre Survey includes an article by Dr Claire Warden entitled ‘“We are here to salute the Red Army”: Basil Dean and His Russian Adventures’.…
Post written by Nicki Taylor This Special Issue of Children Australia focuses on international child and family law topics. It includes nine high-quality articles from authors spanning three different countries – Australia, New Zealand and England.…
From April 2013, Primary Health Care and Research Development, has introduced a new article type: the summary review of evidence.…
In a busy working week, we’re all trying to save time and, thanks to technology, there are more and more cunning ways to do so.…
The word “ladette”, defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “a young woman who behaves in a boisterous, assertive or crude manner and engages in heavy drinking sessions”, and the related culture of alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour has been quoted as being on the rise in the UK.…
Post written by H.J.M. Fenger European welfare states have a tradition in compensating for social risks. But across Europe, remarkable transformations may be observed that shift the focus from a needs/rights based compensatory approach towards a more individualistic ‘social risk management’ approach to welfare.…
The animal Article of the Month for November is entitled ‘Prenatal stress, immunity and neonatal health in farm animal species’ In farm mammals, preweaning mortality rates are high and variable between farms: 10-25% in lambs, 7-50% in kids, 0-50% in calves, 0-35% in foals, 5-35% in pigs.…
2014 marks 50 years of the Law and Society Association, the largest society for socio-legal scholarship. Attendance of the Association’s annual conference has grown from less than 100 scholars in the 1960s to more than 2000 in recent years, demonstrating the massive growth in this subject area.…
Post written by Jan H. Hulstijn, based on an article in Language Teaching The second language acquisition (SLA) field is characterized by a wide variety of issues and theoretical perspectives.…
The December Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘Food-derived serotonergic modulators: effects on mood and cognition’ Food is a primary requirement to live.…
Post written by Dr. Lei Xuan and Dr. Christine Dollaghan based on an article in Journal of Child Language Our research addressed questions about the kinds of words that appear in the early vocabularies of bilingual children. …
What is the most influential historical journal published in English? The answer, according to Google Scholar, is The Journal of Economic History.…
Post written by Wendy Dyer and Paul Biddle Improvements in offender healthcare are key to the current UK Government’s reform of the criminal justice system and the aims of reducing reoffending and protecting the public.…
This blogpost was adapted from Regina Murphy and Martin Fautley’s Editorial of British Journal of Music Education 30/3. We write curriculum documents that are full of good intentions – ambitious musical aims, the highest educational aspirations and holistic principles that place the learner at the centre.…
Back in spring 2008 the new Doctor Who was entering its fourth season. David Tennant was the Doctor, Catherine Tate was his companion Donna, and Pompeii was the destination of their first journey through time together.…
Cambridge finally gives Wireless Power Transfer its own journal Cambridge University Press has announced it will be launching a new journal Wireless Power Transfer in January 2014.…
Did the Iron Age death ritual involve wild bird sacrifice? Was Roman Cirencester named ‘Cironium’ not ‘Corinium’? What can we learn from the Monastic Foundation at Anglo-Saxon Lyminge in Kent? …
In the chemical age of agriculture that began in the 1960s, potassium chloride (KCl), the common salt often referred to as potash, is widely used as a major fertilizer in the Corn Belt without regard to the huge soil reserves that were once recognized for their fundamental importance to soil fertility.…
This blogpost is adapted from Charlotte Canning’s Editorial of the latest issue of Theatre Research International (TRI). Where do the limits of performance and everyday life intersect?…
New research from nutrition experts at the University of Sheffield has revealed that sandwiches, pizza and puddings are the most popular dishes with pupils.…
Journal of Institutional Economics – Elinor Ostrom memorial issue Extract from the Editorial of issue 9/4 of Journal of Institutional Economics written by Geoffrey M.…
We like gadgets at Cambridge Journals, be they phones, ereaders or tablets, and we’ve noticed our readers do too. Over the coming months we’ll be looking at how we can make Cambridge Journals stretch and shrink onto all sorts of screen sizes and still give our readers a full experience.…
Reintroduced Gorillas Going Strong. The Aspinall Foundation’s reintroduction of western lowland gorillas to areas of Africa where they have been hunted to extinction appears to be working, according to a scientific study published today in Oryx The International Journal of Conservation.…
The animal Article of the Month for November is entitled ‘Genetics of milking characteristics in dairy cows’ The milking routine accounts for a large proportion of the labour requirement in a dairy herd.…
Ted Goshulak, University Librarian, Trinity and Western University, describes his role at a small Canadian university. Ours is not a very large library or a very large institution.…
King of Beasts Losing Ground in Uganda’s Paradise – Wildlife Conservation Society. Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of St.…
The November Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Vegetable variety: an effective strategy to increase vegetable choice in children’ Do you remember the last time you were at a buffet and regretted not trying everything?…
My role is to manage the legal issues that affect our Mission and day to day operations. The role of a publishing lawyer has changed significantly in recent years.…
We are pleased to announce the publication of the “Un-America” Special issue of of Journal of American Studies. As an introduction to the topic of Un-Americanism, Dr George Lewis, Guest Editor of the Special Issue examines the topic and asks what un-Americanism is and whether it is still a relevant term today.…
Obese women voluntarily reduce what they eat in response to additional soft drinks being added to their diets – a new 4 week study finds1.…
E-commerce opens up a wealth of opportunities for our customers, allowing them to purchase our content easily and securely, 24 hours a day.…
Researchers at the University of Exeter have teamed up with online forum Netmums in a pilot study which has shown that post natal depression can be treated effectively using online therapy.…
This post is the last in a series of blogs written by the authors of papers which were presented at the recent Greenhouse Gases & Animal Agriculture Conference held in Dublin.…
Researchers at the University of Exeter say that future research is needed to test the mechanisms that may link depression in adults and the difficulties they may have with parenting.…
This post is the second in a series of blogs written by the authors of papers which were presented at the recent Greenhouse Gases & Animal Agriculture Conference held in Dublin.…
Saeed A. Khan, Ph.D., ,Richard L Mulvaney, Ph.D. and Timothy R Ellsworth, Ph.D. have published a compelling and provocative article on “The potassium paradox: Implications for soil fertility, crop production and human health.”…
Many politicians and policy makers in several countries have embraced the concept of ‘nudging’ in shaping policy and influencing citizens’ behaviour. …
Health Professionals Who Participate in Force-feeding Prisoners on Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Bay Should Lose Professional Licenses Force-feeding Violates Medical Ethics and Amounts to Torture Physicians and other licensed health professionals are force-feeding hunger strikers held prisoner at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba.…
This post is the first in a series of blogs written by the authors of papers which were presented at the recent Greenhouse Gases & Animal Agriculture Conference held in Dublin.…
As the second of two features marking Cambridge University Press’ sponsorship of the Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Dr Oliver Thomas, incoming Editor of The Cambridge Classical Journal, considers some of the ways of translating (and not translating) an ancient Greek play to keep it amusing.…
Journal of Anglican Studies offers a serious scholarly conversation on all aspects of Anglicanism. This blogpost provides a précis of Andrew McGowan’s editorial piece, which introduces a special issue of the journal on Scriptural Reasoning.…
The animal Article of the Month for October is entitled ‘Precursors for liver gluconeogenesis in periparturient dairy cows’ Balancing diets for transition dairy cows is a challenge due to limitations in our ability to delineate basic responses and interactions between energy and protein during the periparturient period.…
‘All human skills are from Prometheus’..or so Prometheus claims in the ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound. As the first of two features marking Cambridge University Press’ sponsorship of the Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Dr Oliver Thomas, incoming Editor of The Cambridge Classical Journal, explores the enduring fascination of the figure of Prometheus.…
The Knowledge Engineering Review has just published an exciting special issue on visualization, visual representation, and reasoning with visual knowledge. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) understood as “the methodology for thinking about ways of knowing” (in the 1988 words of Seymour Papert), computer scientists and knowledge engineers are increasingly interested in alternatives to text as forms of knowledge and as means for its representation.…
The October Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Food choice, plate wastes and nutrient intake of elementary- and middle-school students participating in the US National School Lunch Program’ Elementary and middle school students, eating school lunch, do not frequently select vegetables and waste considerably more fruits and vegetables than the entrée or milk, a new study, published in Public Health Nutrition, from Colorado State University (CSU) shows.…
This blogpost is adapted from an article by Andrew T. Forcehimes, published in the Summer 2013 issue of Think: Philosophy for Everyone.…
The June issue of The China Quarterly features a fascinating selection of articles entitled ‘Dying for Development’. Expert in Human Geography in China at Oxford University, Anna Lora-Wainwright looks at the issues surrounding development that have arisen from China’s rapid growth in recent years.…
The EU FP7 research project RobustMilk investigated ways of breeding cows that will produce healthy milk, e.g. packed with healthy fats, without drawing on the health of the dairy cows themselves.…
Researchers at the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, a research partner of the Centre of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition at University College London, have found that a daily commercial probiotic drink (containing Lactobacillus casei Shirota: Yakult Light) significantly reduces incidence of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in spinal injury patients.…
UK academic institutions can now access Cambridge ebook collections via an Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) model agreed through Jisc Collections, an organisation which works on behalf of UK education.…
Posted on behalf of Xavier Gutiérrez Xavier Gutiérrez is an assistant professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish at the University of Alberta in Canada.…
Should the media pay for wildlife conservation? | CIFOR Forests News Blog. BOGOR, Indonesia (5 September, 2013)_Wildlife documentaries are big business.…
Perspective: Should the wildlife media pay for ecosystem services? | The BioFresh blog. Ecosystem services frames the environment as a producer of goods and services for humanity.…
This blogpost was adapted from guest Editors Hazem Azmy and Marvin Carlson’s introduction to a special issue of Theatre Research International entitled ‘Theatre and the Arab Spring.’…
Since its launch in 1993, the Financial History Review Bibliography has been an authoritative guide to works published in the field of Financial History.…
Posted on behalf of Editors William Labov and Dennis Preston Introduction Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the launch of the new online-only Journal of Linguistic Geography (JLG).…
Eating two kiwifruit a day can improve a person’s mood and give them extra energy, new research, published in Journal of Nutritional Science, from the University of Otago, Christchurch (UOC) shows.…
Functionality updates in 2012 saw Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) adopt a new measure of article level metrics. Applied to a select number of Cambridge Journals, Altmetric provides detailed analyses of the online activity surrounding scholarly literature.…
The animal Article of the Month for September is entitled ‘ Welfare of entire male pigs is improved by socialising piglets and keeping intact groups until slaughter’ Surgical castration is painful and should be avoided to improve pig welfare.…
Canadian amber reveals bizarre ants from the Cretaceous – Editor’s Pick for TCE 145(4) | ESC-SEC Blog. It’s with great pleasure that I announce my pick for the latest issue of The Canadian Entomologist. …
Congratulations, your paper has been accepted into a journal! What happens next? Peter Moorby, Production Editor for Cambridge Journals, helps demystify the article production process and explain what happens from submission to final publication.…
This blogpost was adapted from guest Editor Mary Simoni’s introduction to a special issue of Organised Sound entitled ‘Best Practices in the Pedagogy of Electroacoustic Music and its Technology.’…
Human farming and the introduction of domestic dogs are posing a threat to the ability of Burmese long-tailed macaques to use stone tools.…
The September Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Current salt reduction policies across gradients of inequality-adjusted human development in the WHO European region: minding the gaps’.…
Written by John Edwards Based on an article in the July 2013 issue of Language Teaching. In the popular mind, constructing a language has always been seen as an odd activity, one that seems to fly in the face of ‘natural’ language dynamics.…
The British Museum is currently hosting a fascinating exhibition looking at life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. It will be running until the 29th September 2013, and you can find out further information here.…
Leptocephali are the remarkably transparent larvae of eels and their relatives, but they are rarely seen because they mostly live in oceanic waters. …
The animal Article of the Month for August is entitled ‘ An individual reproduction model sensitive to milk yield and body condition in Holstein dairy cows’ To face rapid changes in economic or climatic conditions and to maintain their competitiveness, dairy producers increasingly need to anticipate the consequences of their management decisions.…
An optimal immune system is crucial to human health. After vaccination, nutrition is one of the major factors which modulates immune function.…
What we eat, or do not eat, may have an important impact on our cognitive ability and mental performance. Changes in brain functions can be long-term events difficult to demonstrate by traditional means.…
The August Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Vitamin D in serum is influenced by diet and season in North Greenland: indicators of dermal 25OHD production north of the Arctic Circle’ No need to worry about vitamin D deficiency if you live in North Greenland.…
The population of large carnivores in Manas, north-east India is bouncing back from near extinction, a recent study has found. The study published by Cambridge University Press in the journal Oryx reveals that both clouded and common leopards are recovering well after a decade of conflict in the region.…
The latest issue of Popular Music features an article by Sarah Baker and Alison Huber about the regional city of Tamworth, New South Wales, the self-made ‘Country Music Capital’ of Australia.…
Post written by David Little and Lid King, based on an article in Language Teaching John Trim was born in 1924 and died in January 2013.…
In an interview with Chris Fell, Digital Publishing Director for Cambridge Academic, we reveal the plans for the future of Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) and Cambridge Books Online (CBO) How is the restructure of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press (with the integration of many book and journal functions) affecting you?…
The July Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Slow pace of dietary change in Scotland: 2001 –9’.…
People who believe being overweight is caused by the food environment or genes – both seen as outside individual control – are more likely to support a wide range of government policies to tackle the obesity epidemic, new research shows.…
This blogpost was adapted from guest Editor Martijn Blaauw’s introduction to a special issue of Episteme entitled ‘Privacy, Secrecy, and Epistemology.…
In ‘Influence of the EU Chemicals Regulation on the US Policy Reform Debate: Is a ‘California Effect’ Within REACH?’, published in Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) in April 2013, I investigated whether the demanding EU chemicals regulation (REACH) had led the exporting US chemicals sector to lobby its government to follow suit. …
Running from Sunday 21st to Sunday 28th July 2013, the International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (iCHSTM) is the largest event in the field, and takes place every four years.…
I am pleased to present the “Editor’s Pick” manuscript for the current issue of The Canadian Entomologist. This pick was a paper by Bob Lamb, Patricia MacKay and Andrei Alyokhin, titled “Seasonal dynamics of three coexisting aphid species: implications for estimating population variability” I had always admired the ongoing work on aphids, spearheaded by Bob and Pat.…
An internationally leading and groundbreaking scholar and curator, Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins provides a powerful and compellingly argued thought-piece to accompany the publication of Stephane Lewthwaite’s Special Issue, “Art Across Frontiers: Cross-cultural Encounters in America.…
This post has been adapted from the Blog post entitled ‘The Olympics: One year on…’ posted on The Classical Association Blog on 23rd May 2013.…
This blogpost is adapted from the Editorial of British Journal of Music Education 30/2 by Editors Regina Murphy and Martin Fautley.…
Medical History is pleased to announce the launch of the William Bynum Prize, a prestigious, international essay competition coordinated by the Journal with the generous support of Cambridge University Press.…
Editorial Director, David Tranah, speaks to the Managing Editor of Forum of Mathematics, Prof. Rob Kirby, about mathematics publishing, his hopes for the journals Pi and Sigma and why he got involved with the project.…
The latest issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review includes a paper by Simon D. I. Fleming entitled ‘The Howgill Family: A Dynasty of Musicians from Georgian Whitehaven.’…
The animal Article of the Month for July is entitled ‘Impact of dietary protein on microbiota composition and activity in the gastrointestinal tract of piglets in relation to gut health: a review’ The microbial ecosystem of the intestinal tract of pigs is influenced by various factors.…
Another substantial section of the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Complete Collection is now available online to all universities, research institutes, colleges and educational institutions in Russia.…
A new study has revealed that using Blu-tack to protect the ears can be as effective as inserting custom-made, shop-bought earplugs from Boots and Aearo.…
Dr. Garth Youngberg and Suzanne DeMuth have made a fundamental contribution to the literature on organic and sustainable agriculture with the recently published first view article: ‘Organic Agriculture in the United States: A Thirty-Year Retrospective’.…
A study led by researchers at Warwick Medical School has shown that a patient’s ethnicity does not impact the likelihood of detention under the Mental Health Act.…
Posted on behalf of Aline Godfroid, Paula Winke and Susan Gass Understanding how languages are learned involves investigating the cognitive processes that underlie acquisition.…
To celebrate the publication of a special issue of International Journal of Astrobiology, two articles are being made freely available to the public. …
Photographing atoms isn’t easy. In fact, trying to capture images of these tiny, nearly invisible particles that fit 200,000 abreast on a human hair is far from straightforward.…
If your next change of car is due in 2020, the new model you drive away from the dealership should boast some revolutionary features that will change forever the way vehicles use energy.…
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how the prêt-à-porter industry in France and the ready-to-wear industry in Italy evolved from their beginnings to their growth stages during the 20th century.…
Ethics Right From the Start The end of the year 2021 brought an extraordinary announcement that a technological genie was being shoved back into its bottle: Facebook (now: Meta) stopped using the facial-recognition software that allows it to automatically detect and tag people in photos and videos.…
Circadian rhythms are timekeeping mechanisms responsible for the cyclic repetition of metabolic, behavioural and psychological processes in all living organisms, typically over a 24-hour period.
Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
How unequal were ancient Maya societies and what lessons can we learn from them about our own unequal world? Modern inequality metrics often focus on monetary wealth and financial statements, but other methods exist and inequality can manifest itself in multiple forms.…
Tamer Zaki (Johns Hopkins University) has recently joined the Journal of Fluid Mechanics Editorial Board for JFM Rapids. To celebrate, Tamer participated in a Q&A with the Journal.
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…
With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…
Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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