Website User Guide
- Setting up Your Account
- Key Functionality
- Citations
- Bookmarks
- Offline Reading
- Adding books to your offline reading bookshelf
- Removing books from your offline reading bookshelf
- Downloading books in applications
- Examination Copies
- Information for Students, Instructors and Librarians
- Textbook Resources and Supplementary Materials
Setting up Your Account
If you already have a Cambridge Core account, you can use the same email address and password details to log into the Higher Education site. Have you forgotten your login details? You can use our password reset screen to guide you to resetting it.
If you don’t have a Cambridge Core account, you can set up an account by selecting the Register button on the top right of the Higher Education homepage. You will then be redirected to the Cambridge Core platform to fill out our short form asking for your name, email address, organisation and country. You will also be asked to create a secure password.
Once you have registered, you will receive a verification email from us. Please follow the instructions in this email. If you do not receive your verification email, please check your junk email folder. If you are sure that you haven’t received a verification email, please double-check that you have entered your email address correctly on the registration form. If you are still having problems setting up an account, please visit the Help page on Cambridge Core for information about whom to contact next.
Key Functionality
To perform a search, enter your terms in the search box, and select the icon magnifying glass to view your results. Predictive search is available via title key words or author name.
To see a selection of our latest textbooks and a list of subjects that we publish, scroll down the homepage.
Alternatively, if you want to browse a particular subject area, you can select the Subjects link on top of the page.
On the subject page you can see any available sub-subjects as well as view relevant titles.
You can refine your search by selecting the parameters located on the left side of the search results page. By default, the results are sorted by relevance to the terms you used in your search, but you can sort your search results by author’s name, and date of publication, using the drop down menu on the top right of the page. This page also lets you see the content that you can access. If your librarian has enabled the Recommend to Librarian feature, then you can recommend a title to them in this way.
By selecting a specific book you will be taken to its landing page. Here, you can find information about the book (e.g. table of contents, author details, reviews, prices and ISBN as well as any relevant metrics). You can also preview a sample of any books that have the “Look Inside” feature. The landing page also enables you to buy the print book from our academic website, cite the book and, if you have access, read the book online.
Citations
Export citation functionality is conveniently located on multiple pages throughout Higher Education from Cambridge University Press.
To export citations, check the box next to the content you wish to obtain the citation for and choose ‘Export Citation’ (you can select more than one book at a time).
From the citation tool pop up you can change the citation style by using the ‘change selected format’ button. You can copy and paste, or download the citation, or export to various citation tools.
Bookmarks
You must be logged in to use this feature. To bookmark content check the box next to the book you wish to add to your bookmarks. If you are on a search page, tick all items you wish to bookmark, then select 'Add to bookmark'. You can also select on ‘Add to bookmark’ if you are on a book page to add a single book.
To manage your bookmarks, select 'Account' at the top right hand corner of the Higher Education from Cambridge University Press webpage. From there you can select ‘Bookmarks’ to view all your markers.
Offline Reading
Offline reading is available for you to store up to 20 books that your institution has access to on a computer or mobile device. These books will be available to read, annotate and add bookmarks to whether you are connected to the internet or not so you can take your textbooks with you wherever you go.
Adding books to your offline reading bookshelf
Before you try to log in to one of the offline reading applications, you need to add a book to your offline reading list. You can do this by selecting the ‘Add to offline bookshelf’ button on the book page. Once this is done you will receive a message to confirm it has been added.
Removing books from your offline reading bookshelf
When you no longer need a book to be offline you can remove it from the book page on the Higher Education from Cambridge University Press website by selecting the ‘Remove from offline bookshelf’ button.
You can also see your offline bookshelf in ‘My Account’ at the top right of the website. In the offline bookshelf area you can remove titles individually or in bulk.
Downloading books in applications
When you open the Cambridge Spiral application you can see your bookshelf with titles you have recently read online and those you have added to your offline book list. To download a book, select the circle in the middle of the book cover.
Examination Copies
If you are a lecturer or instructor, you can also request an examination copy of a book from its landing page once you have created an account and logged in.
You can see all your requested examination copies and their status in My Account. Once you have an account, you will be able to see all your requested examination copies and the status of each request.
Digital and print examination copies are available to instructors.
Information for Students, Instructors and Librarians
Specific information for students, instructors, and librarians is available from the drop down menus on top of the homepage. Each link provides relevant FAQs and contact details as well as tailored content such as links to textbook catalogues and information on topics including purchasing models and our panels.
Textbook Resources and Supplementary Materials
Resources refers to supplementary materials that are available to use with textbooks. Not every book has resources. To view resources available for a title you can select the Resources tab on the title’s main page. If the Resources tab is not visible then no resources are available for that title.
Click on View Resources to see available resources.
Resources are divided into two types. General Resources and Instructor Resources. General Resources are free to download without restrictions. Instructor Resources require the user to be validated as an instructor.
To access General Resources click on the links underneath General Resources. You will see the list of resources and a download icon to the far right of the resource. Select the download icon to save that particular resource.
When accessing Instructor Resources you must request access via the ‘Unlock instructor resources’ button. In order to access this button you must be logged into a Higher Education from Cambridge University Press account and have declared yourself an Instructor when you registered for your user account. You will receive confirmation for this request via your registered email address.
If you need to be set as an instructor after you have registered, then please email collegesales@cambridge.org for The Americas and lecturers@cambridge.org for the rest of the world.
If you are already registered as a lecturer then you will need to read and accept the terms and conditions and will receive a confirmation that your request has been received.
Once your request has been processed the Instructor Resources for that title will be unlocked for you. You will receive confirmation for this via your registered email address. You may be rejected if we have been unable to verify you as an instructor. If you need query about this decision, then please email collegesales@cambridge.org for The Americas and lecturers@cambridge.org for the rest of the world.
A green tick will be shown against the previously locked resources to illustrate that you have access.