Institutional access - using content
Institutional Access – Using content
You can read eTextbooks online using our Cambridge Spiral eReader in read-only mode. This will give you the ability to read the eTextbook, but not access features such as annotations, bookmarking or offline reading via a mobile or desktop computer.
If you wish to use the advanced Cambridge Spiral eReader which includes additional functionality such as annotations, bookmarking and offline reading you will need to login in two stages:
- Stage 1: Via your institution. You will need to login to your institutional/library access in the normal way. This enables access to the website. This is most commonly handled via IP range (when on-campus) or via remote access (including Athens, Shibboleth, and EZProxy).
- Stage 2: Via your individual user account, using a username and password. This enables access to all the content of the eTextbooks and all the personalised features of the site, like offline reading, highlighting, note-making, bookmarks, etc. These are remembered within the individual account, so that they can be accessed in future. An account can be created here if you do not already have one. The account is shared with Cambridge Core, so bookmarks and other features on both sites can be accessed from one account.
Your institution will still need to have access to our textbook content in order for you to read them. You should contact your library or library services for more information.
If you are unable to access specific content, make sure that your institution is subscribed to the title and then contact our technical support team via our Technical Support Diagnostics Form.
You can learn all about the two different versions of the Cambridge Spiral ereader by viewing our Cambridge Spiral eReader experience comparison page .
For the Stage 1 access, explained above, your institutional affiliation should be detected automatically, if facilitated by IP range authentication. If you are logging in via Shibboleth, the user can optionally retain authentication for a week, but otherwise must re-authenticate on each new browser session.
For the Stage 2 access, also explained above, your individual username/password can be stored for up to 30 days, if you select the ‘Remember me’ option.
Our eTextbooks are delivered by our Cambridge Spiral eReader. Once the textbook has been leased by your institutional library, all your students and instructors can access the textbook via the Higher Education website by selecting the Read Online button on the textbook page. Faculty and students can also download our Cambridge Spiral reader for IOS, Android, Mac Desktop and Windows Desktop. More information is available from our Cambridge Spiral page.
No, textbooks are supplied via our Cambridge Spiral eReader which includes functionality such as bookmarking, annotations as well as being able to be read on different devices. You will also be able to download the book to read offline through one of our Cambridge Spiral applications. Please refer to the Cambridge Spiral FAQs , or our comprehensive guide to Cambridge Spiral .
You can consult our User Guide and Videos . You can also consult the Contact & Help area which has FAQs and contact information for our technical support team who can assist you further.