The Biological Sciences Team is spread out across Cambridge. You can find members of the team in one convenient place through our Biological Sciences Libraries website.
In the event that you are unable to access these places in person, or aren't sure if your question falls under any of these subject specialisms, you can email the team as a whole using our shared email address sbslibraries@lib.cam.ac.uk. We will be then be able to find out who can help you in the best way.
1-2-1 support
You can book an appointment with a member of the team to talk about a whole range of things. Some of the things we can help with:
This list is not exhaustive so if you're not sure who to ask about what, ask us and we'll be able to put you in contact with the right person!
Appointments can be carried out remotely via phone, email, or an online tool such as Zoom, Google Meet or Teams.
The University of Cambridge has many services available to students that are centralised due to the nature of what they cover. Here we have listed some of the possible places that you may look to for additional support.
Accessing ebooks
There is a dedicated ebooks team based at the main University Library who look after all of our online book resources. They have an excellent ebooks guide to help you explore what we have on offer as well as information on how to reference an ebook, what you can do with an ebook without breaking any rules, as well as what it means if an ebook isn't available.
Accessing ejournals and databases
You can ask for help with using online journals and databases from any of our librarians but there is also a dedicated team who makes sure that all of our electronic resources work. If you find something that looks like it should work but doesn't, or are unsure as to whether we have access to something you need for your work, the eresources team at the University Library will be able to help.
Using Apollo
Apollo is the University of Cambridge's institutional repository. It is used to store the many different research outputs, as well as a lot of other things, from members of the University. If you want to look for research papers from your supervisor or find out what theses have been written on your topic of interest, this is a great tool to use. You can search Apollo through the iDiscover interface or go into it directly.
Apollo is managed by the Office of Scholarly Communication, based in the University Library, so if you have any questions or need help accessing something, they are the people who will be able to help.