Cambridge University members have access to ARTstor (on JSTOR), which contains over two million high-quality images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world. These images are rights-cleared for education and research. Scholars can easily examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and modern architectural plans from Columbia University. Users can explore, discover, and interact with images from around the world using a suite of tools that encourage direct interaction with content, including zooming in on images t ..read more

Trial access is now available to e-Marefa, a comprehensive online database of academic content in Arabic and English, with a focus on materials from the Arab world. Trial access is now available until 17 May 2024 at this link. Please tell us what you think about this resource using our feedback form. Here’s a brief overview of what e-Marefa offers: 2400+ academic journals and statistical periodicals in full text 650,000+ full text articles 33,000 theses and dissertations in full text 30,000 e-books, ebook chapters and book reviews 1,000,000 research abstracts 25 specialized databases coverin ..read more

Stress Awareness Month has been running in the UK every April since 1992 to raise awareness of the causes of stress and to offer guidance on where support can be found when dealing with stress. If you think you might be suffering from stress the university Occupational Health team have put together some Advice & Guidance. The Student Support services are available for anyone at the university looking for help with wellbeing and counselling. We have put together a list of videos available on the Kanopy platform that take a look at stress. There are many other titles on the platform that you ..read more

Sir Alan Bowness, director of the Tate Gallery in the 1980s and son-in-law of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, donated to the UL his extensive art history library, containing many exhibition catalogues and private view cards. In recent years several blog posts have been devoted to progress on the Bowness collection, the earliest in 2019 ..read more

…and what a wonderful, enchanted forest it was! Gathered once again for the last of the 23/24 Hans Keller Chamber Music Forums were the Lark and Havisham Piano Trios from the Royal Conservatoire Scotland and Royal Academy of Music respectively ..read more

Vet Anatomy bu IMAOIS is available to members of the University of Cambridge via the link in the Databases A-Z. vet-Anatomy is a high-quality atlas of veterinary anatomy based on medical imaging, created under the supervision of Dr. Susanne AEB Boroffka, dipl. ECVDI, PhD and Antoine Micheau, MD. It’s based on the same framework as the popular award-winning e-Anatomy, but dedicated to animals. Browse between the different animal anatomical structures of the vet-Anatomy atlas, using the tree structure. Display the definition and anatomical pictures (illustr ..read more

The Data Champions were treated to a big data themed session for the March Data Champion forum, hosted at (and sponsored by) the Cambridge University Press and Assessment in their amazing Triangle building. First up was Dr James Fergusson, course director for the MPhil in Data Intensive Science, who described how the exponential growth in data accumulation, computing and artificial intelligence (A.I.) capabilities has led to a paradigm shift in the world of cosmological theorisation and research, potentially changing with it scientific research as a whole.   Dr James Fergusson presen ..read more

Dr Mandy Wigdorowitz, Open Research Community Manager, Cambridge University Libraries The promise and pitfalls of preregistration meeting was held at the Royal Society in March 2024. It was organised to address the utility of preregistration and initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue about its epistemic and pragmatic aims. The goal of the meeting was to explore the limitations associated with preregistration, and to conceive of a practical way to guide future research that can make the most of its implementation. Preregistration is the practice of publicly declaring a study’s hypotheses, meth ..read more

In celebration of National Library Week, we would like to highlight the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A worldwide consortium of natural history and research libraries (including Cambridge University Library) contribute to the BHL by digitising the natural history literature held in their collection and making it freely available for open access. Reisen im Süden von Ost-Sibirien in den Jahren 1855-1859, incl. Bd.1 (1862) You can search for orginal species descriptions in the BHL (e.g. Reisen im Süden von Ost-Sibirie ..read more

Have you ever noticed the Gordon Craig Theatre when travelling through Stevenage station and wondered who Gordon Craig was? I did and after a quick search on my phone it was soon apparent that this was a figure with an interesting and complex life worth writing about. Born in Stevenage (hence the theatre being named ..read more