We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University Press has been selected to join the APUC Framework as a trusted supplier to academic institutions in Scotland.

APUC serves as the procurement centre of expertise for all Scottish universities and colleges and provides guidance and support to institutions seeking to buy goods and services from expert providers.

Cambridge University Press has been appointed to LOT 6, title-by-title and ebook collections, as well as to LOT 7, eTextbook collection, where we have been ranked number 1. With Cambridge University Press as a supplier, Scottish APUC members have now access to hundreds of digital textbooks across a wide range of subjects, and our vast collection of ebook content of immense breadth and depth.

Higher Education eTextbooks collection

Our Higher Education eTextbooks offer ranked number 1 in LOT 7 and we are delighted to announce that the APUC Framework is the very first procurement framework through which our eTextbooks are available. Higher Education from Cambridge University Press offers the highest quality content that supports successful teaching and learning journeys in today’s rapidly changing educational environment.

Our Cambridge eTextbooks include a number of key features such as:

• Unlimited User Concurrency
• Free enhanced MARC records
• including monthly updates
• Full-text searching within eTextbook content.
• LMS integration
• New Editions available upon publication
• Highlighting
• Bookmarking
• Offline reading
• Annotation capabilities
• Printing (20% by page count)
• Copying and pasting (only available via the online version on your browser)

Hot Topics Collection

Hot Topics from Cambridge are a series of bespoke ebook collections comprising titles from across a wide range of subjects, created to reflect the latest research trends. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, in addition to the science, technology and medical disciplines, the collections highlight Cambridge’s depth of publishing.

Our full list of collections is available via LOT 6 which include an inbuilt discount dependent on Jisc Band. All of the collections benefit from perpetual ownership, unlimited user concurrency and no DRM!

EBA collections

Under the Cambridge EBA model, institutions are given access to an extensive online collection of more than 50,000 titles published by Cambridge University Press and our publishing partners, before making decisions on which titles to buy in perpetuity.

The evidence to support decision-making is supplied in the form of usage reports, indicating which titles are the most popular within your institution.

Newly published titles are added to an EBA collection throughout the access period. We supply MARC records to support discoverability of content and monthly updates so you can include the newly published titles in your catalogue. There are a range of EBA collections available via LOT 6 including the Full Collection, HSS, STM, Subject Collections and our new Elements EBA.