We’re pleased to be able to offer books rests for use in the library – just ask library staff.  

We have been notified of significant works by the Clinical School Computing Service Planned Outage: Clinical School Data Storage Upgrade Affected Services: All Phase 1 & 2: Friday 1st May  6 PM – Monday 4th May 5 PM: All library computer services will be unavailable Phase 3:  Friday 8th May 6 PM –  Sunday 10th May 8 PM: All library computer […]

50 years ago the UK, like much of the western world, was in the grip of an epidemic of coronary heart disease. Much has changed between then and now. How was this achieved and how much further have we still to go? Come to Wolfson College on May 20th to hear Prof Peter Weissberg’s views […]

New Easter Term sessions have been scheduled for you to brush up your skills in finding literature and managing it. Come along to a “quickie”  – a 1 hour lunchtime session on Pubmed, Endnote or Mendeley. Or perhaps a more in-depth session would suit you better? – getting to grips with how to do a systematic review, […]

Managing and sharing your research data: Advice and support for University of Cambridge researchers Most research funders (including Research Councils, charities and foundations) have introduced policies on research data management. The general expectation is that data from publicly funded research projects should be appropriately stored and made openly available with as few restrictions as possible. […]

NHS Improving Quality, the Nursing Times and the HSJ, have created an easy-to-use toolkit for any NHS worker wanting to make a change in their workplace. It will help them to identify typical barriers to change as well as the foundations or ‘building blocks’ that will support their change project. The guide also offers useful solutions […]

This month in Eyes on Evidence Social integration and risk of suicide in men A cohort study in the US found that professional middle-aged men who were socially well integrated had a lower risk of suicide than men with fewer family, friendship and religious connections. Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for fracture of the heel A […]

The University has recently launched www.data.cam.ac.uk, a resource of information on Research Data Management including data repositories and compliance with funder policies on open data. If you would like to know more about research data requirements and help offered by the University of Cambridge, come to the lunchtime ‘Open Data’ session (open to all researchers, […]

Maintenance work will be taking place on the lecture theatre roof, Saturday 18th April 2015. We apologise for any disruption.