For the 21/22 academic year, Cambridge has got 200 Perlego accounts. Since the number is quite restricted, accounts will be handled by the central ebooks@cambridge team. This post provides advice for readers and for library staff about arrangements from 1 October 2021. Please remember that titles in Perlego (which number about 300,000 and cover all disciplines) do not appear in iDiscover.

Readers. If you find that a book you need to read is not in iDiscover but is on https://www.perlego.com, please write to ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk and request an account. We will provide instructions about how to access Perlego. Since we have a limited number of accounts, we will only be able to provide temporary access. After a certain period (hopefully no shorter than a fortnight, but this does depend on demand), we will deactivate your account so that it can be used by another reader. If you need Perlego another time, just get in touch with us again.

NB if you previously had a Perlego account in 20/21, it will automatically have been deactivated as we enter the 21/22 year. Please write to us if you need to have access again.

Library staff. We have got a separate group of accounts for use by librarians. This set-up assumes that library staff will not go into the body of any book (since you can see the book's contents from its main entry) and therefore will not trigger royalties. Librarian accounts from 20/21 have been rolled over. If you do not have a library account, get in touch with us at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk. You can still browse Perlego titles through their website without logging in, though, at https://www.perlego.com. If you are asked by a reader about accessing a title in Perlego, please put them in touch with the ebooks team.

It might be that you find a title there that needs to be used by a group of students. Please write to us, giving details about the group size and the period of time the group needs to have access to the book for. If possible, we will provide temporary access for the group, but we can't guarantee this. It will, of course, depend on the number of accounts free at the time.