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, […]

Have you ever tried to find a book at the medical library but it wasn’t there? Did you suspect that a friend from your course had it? Did you ask if you could borrow the book from them? Did they ever get clobbered with a fine because you forgot to return it to the library […]

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.

There are numerous medical e-books to choose from.  Do you know how to find and download e-books to your devices? We are holding e-book drop-in sessions on Tuesday 24th March 12:30 -13:30 in the Sherwood Room Thursday 26th March 13:00 – 14:00 in the Sherwood Room There will be laptops so we can show you […]

The library will be shut Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th and Monday 6th April 2015 – the Easter Weekend. Normal hours resume at 8:00am Tuesday 7th April. The library will have reduced hours on Mondays 4th and 25th May 2015 – the May Bank Holidays. We will be open 9:00am till 5:00pm.