Don’t sit in a traffic jam – sit in the library instead!  The Library will be open from 9:00am till 6:00pm on Bank Holiday Monday 27th May 2013  

Calling all students, postgraduates and university staff – want to win a £25 Amazon voucher? To be in with a chance to win an Amazon voucher, just take this quick survey about study and research habits in the University of Cambridge Not only will you be entered into a draw to win a voucher to […]

Test your knowledge of a wide range of medical conditions at Patient.co.uk. The education articles are written for health professionals and include MCQs and OSCEs which clinical students might find useful. http://www.patient.co.uk/education

Mendeley has been bought by Elsevier (read all about it from Meneley’s perspective here and from Elsevier’s perspective here)  If you have one of the free accounts the first thing you might notice is an increase in your storgage from 1GB to 2GB – great news, but there may be other changes to come in the […]

Regulations coming into force on April 6 will enable six major libraries to collect, preserve and provide long term access to the increasing proportion of the nation’s cultural and intellectual output that appears in digital form – including blogs, e-books and the entire UK web domain. And the Medical Library is one of the libraries […]

Need an evidence base for the 300 most common and/or significant conditions presented in primary care? Then the new, improved Clinical Knowledge Service is for you! www.cks.nhs.uk Accessible only in the UK, CKS service will upgrade the existing CKS service and will be openly accessible to users in the UK. The evidence base that supports […]

Booksale will end on Wednesday 3rd April.  

Prevention is better than cure, after all. So the BBC Horizon programme  “How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery” due to be screened Thursday 21st March should be interesting viewing.   You can also read about what inspired the programme at the BBC magazine page 

If you are used to keeping up to date by channeling RSS feeds into your Google Reader account, prepare for a change. From 1st July 2013, Google will be discontinuing this service.  (you can also read what the BBC has to say about it here.) Anyone looking for alternatives might want to consider some of […]

The new NHS Healthcare Apps library is up and running – making it it simpler for you to you to easily find safe and trusted apps to help you manage your health (or promote to patients to do so). These have been reviewed by the NHS to ensure they are clinically safe and relevant to […]