Welcome to the Marshall Library for New Students

 Welcome to Cambridge from the Marshall Library Team! 

If you are a student in Economics or Development Studies we are the Library for your course. We have a comprehensive Economics and Development Studies collection, both in print and online. We have multiple copies of all your key textbooks and, where possible, we have provided ebook access too. We also hold the Archives of Alfred Marshall and other key figures from Cambridge Economics.

The Marshall Library is based on one side of the Austin Robinson Building (opposite the main Faculty of Economics entrance) and has a surprisingly beautiful Reading Room, which you will enjoy using as a study space.

To begin with during Michaelmas Term we will be operating a Book a Study Space service for longer stays in the Library space: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/book-seat    but we hope to be able to open up more as term progresses. If you just want to come in and borrow/return a book or speak to us for help and advice you can just come in. Keep up to date with our current library services here: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/current-marshall-library-services

We strongly recommend that you watch our Library Induction talks either in person, or via recordings on your Moodle Induction pages. For a flavour of our space and services please watch our brief video Introduction to the Marshall Library: https://bit.ly/3EU2CYO

We have a useful website which gives you all the information about the Library, our services and our resources such as online databases and datasets: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/

To find resources you need for your studies it is important that you learn how to use the catalogue iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/

We have shared the Economics iDiscover workbook with you and really recommend you spend a short time doing this to get the best out of the catalogue and save time later!

For basic tips about using Cambridge Libraries, including searching iDiscover check out the Library Essentials Libguide

If you cannot find a book, journal article, database or dataset then just ask us! All the Marshall Library staff are very friendly. We are here to help you and look forward to seeing you soon in the Library.

Keep in touch by following us on Twitter @Marshalllibrary and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallLib

You are likely to see our mascot, Jasper the #Economicscat on Twitter and, hopefully, in catperson, at the Library where he makes a couple of visits each year

The Long Hard Search for Ebooks in Economics

You may be frustrated, like the Marshall Librarian and team, right now because there are so many textbooks in the shutdown library and we cannot find many of them as ebooks. Rest assured we are working very hard with Ebooks colleagues at the University Library to do what we can.

I thought it might be helpful to explain where we search for available ebooks, so you can see what is available. Please note that some of this access is temporary during the current situation and it may not continue indefinitely.

Here are some tips

Let's start with Cambridge University Press Cambridge Core ebooks
https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/economics

There is certainly one of our textbooks available here in full text: Prof. Oliver Linton's Financial Econometrics  https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/financial-econometrics/09CA0F5E949EB8F516EE4BB4E45F393E

It could also be worth looking through the whole Economics and Econometrics sections and just browsing what is available too. Putting the term "Economics" in the search box brings up over 2000 items, some of which are full ebooks and some of which are book chapters. Cambridge Core also provides Elements, which are longer form articles. You may well find something useful here.

Another useful University Press is Oxford Univesity Press. It is worth searching for their content on Oxford Scholarship Online: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/
Using the search box on the top right hand side also searches several other University Partner Presses, so you can widen your search beyond OUP. Again it is worth searching for "Economics", "Macroeconomics", "Microeconomics" and "Econometrics" here to see what content they do have available.

Other places that are worth looking through are the EBSCO ebook Academic Collection, which contains (192,000 academic titles) and Proquest Academic Complete which has 180,000 plus titles.
EBSCO https://web-a-ebscohost-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk (this is a trial)

PROQUEST https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cam/home.action

Please do remember we are happy to source and purchase what you need if it is available so do continue to contact us at Marshlib@hermes.cam.ac.uk or email me (clt61@cam.ac.uk) or Simon Frost directly if you need help with ebooks.

Both of these sites will prompt you to login to Raven to gain access. You can also search by topic as with Oxford Scholarship Online and Cambridge Core above. Proquest also gives you the option to browse by subject.