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Research Cafés

You are invited to present at our next Research Café on Light and Dark, with a Keynote by Professor George Efstathiou on 'The Fate of the Universe'.  

This event is kindly sponsored by G-Research.

Poster in blue for Light & Dark research cafe with blue lights in the background

  • AbstractsOpen for submissions here  (closes at 12 noon on 27th February 2025)
  • When: 20th March 2025 11:30 am - 14:30 pm
  • Where: Moore Library - Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Presenting at the Research Café provides a safe and friendly environment for participants to share their research, raise their academic profile and find opportunities for collaboration across multiple departments. 

At the event, you will have multiple opportunities to engage with peers outside of your immediate discipline and enjoy lunch while raising your profile and finding research connections. 

As this Research Café falls on the spring equinox, we have chosen the theme of ‘Light and Dark’. We encourage you to interpret this theme widely, but some examples of topics which would fit the theme are: 

  • Bioluminescence
  • Black holes
  • Circadian rhythms
  • Colour contrast (either in relation to the subject of the research or in the methodology)
  • Fluorescence
  • Lightning
  • Optics
  • Photochemistry
  • Photosynthesis and other light-mediated biological processes

You can submit your abstract by noon on 27th February 2025!

For more information: https://moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/moore-library-research-cafe

If you work or know a researcher or postgraduate, from any field/sector, researching a similar topic, please do share this amazing opportunity with them and be part of this event!

>>>Contact information: moore-library@lib.cam.ac.uk / 01223 762725

>>See here what participants say about the Research Café. <<

Go Beyond!

One of our key aims is to support you beyond your studies and research, so we are also keen to point you in the direction of our free online collections and electronic databases to help you make the most of your time at Cambridge. To compliment these e-resources, our libraries also have borrowable print collections that you can take advantage of. If you have any questions, please contact us or ask your librarian.

Red poster filled with QR codes that lead to useful electronic resources like wellbeing and inclusive e-books, audiobook and film databases

Overton (policy e-resource)

The University of Cambridge now subscribes to Overton, app.overton.io., the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents and their relationships with research, people and each other.

Overton can be used as:

  • As a discovery tool

It’s like Google for government reports, think tank publications, white papers and other policy documents. You can structure and/or limit a search by topic, country or geographical region, source type, document type and year. This highly focused filtering helps surface outputs from smaller organisations or geographical areas that are often deprioritised in a regular search process.

  • A tool to track research impact

Citation reports and dashboards are specifically designed to help with research impact assessment. Search by publication, author or institution to find where your research has been cited or mentioned in policy worldwide. Use as evidence of research impact in grant applications, evaluations and creating case studies. Save your searches and set alerts to be notified of any new mentions/citations.

  • A tool to plan research impact and find potential collaborators

The past few years have seen growing calls to improve collaboration between researchers and policymakers - for governments to be clearer about where their knowledge gaps are and to lower the barriers for researchers to engage with them. Overton can be used to understand the policy landscape in your area and to identify opportunities to engage and influence policy, e.g. by finding evidence gaps identified by policy organisations or learning about the pathways of influence in your field. See Overton’s guide to impact planning.

Learn more about Overton and how to get the most out of it via its knowledge base and find out about the latest developments on the platform via Overton's blog.

 If you’d like to discuss a particular use case or to arrange a demo for your group contact techlib@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Lent Training Programme 2025

The Technology Libraries Team at the Engineering Department & West Hub are pleased to announce our new open training programme for the Lent Term.

 

4th February  | Finding What You Need

Learn effective methods for planning your searches, places to search for information, and techniques you can use to find the most relevant results.

7th February  | Academic Integrity and Ethics

This session aims to help you think about the ethical considerations of your research by introducing you to the Department of Engineering ethical review process and investigates some case study scenarios.

11th, 21st & 28th February & 7th March  | Managing Your Data

This session aims to help you get started with managing your data by introducing you to key principles around organising, storing, archiving and sharing your data. You will also learn how to create your own Data Management Plan.

17th February  | Designing Conference Posters

This module will help you create effective conference posters and introduce key design principles..

20th February  | Presentation Skills

This session will focus on helping you to let your key points stand out, how to use/design slides and/or accompanying resources well and presenting with confidence and clarity.

26th February  | Research Ethics and Integrity + Data Management

These two sessions, held back-to-back, will help you to think about the ethical considerations of your research and then help you get started with managing your data by introducing you to key principles around organising, storing, archiving and sharing your data.

 

For sessions running at the Engineering Department, booking is required and are open to members of the University of Cambridge only. For sessions running at the West Hub, booking is not essential and are open to all.

To see timings and to guarantee your place, see the event timetable.

Apollo preprint deposit service now available

Apollo, the place for your research

It is now possible to make open access, research data and doctoral thesis deposits into Apollo from Elements.

New preprint service

A new preprints deposit service is also available. You can now use Elements to deposit preprints in Apollo:

  • where there is no suitable subject repository/preprint server available
  • instead of depositing them to an external subject repository/preprint server such as ArXiv

Please do not deposit preprints that have already been published on a subject repository/preprint server unless you have concerns about long-term preservation. See the Open access website for guidance on publishing preprints, including a preprint checker tool to help you select a suitable preprint server for your discipline. See the Unlocking Research blog post for more information.

Self-Archiving Policy – action required by anyone publishing research

Person sat at on floor working from laptop in the libraryThe University launched a Self-Archiving Policy on 1 April 2023, following the year-long Rights Retention Pilot.

The policy gives Cambridge researchers a cost-effective route to make the accepted version of their papers open access without embargo – something that is now required by almost all research funders. It applies to all peer-reviewed research articles submitted after 1 April 2023, including reviews and conference papers.

One key difference between the new Self-Archiving Policy and the previous Rights Retention Pilot is that it is opt-out rather than opt-in.

This means that all researchers must either:

a) Follow the policy

Before submission, ensure that your co-authors agree to apply a CC BY licence to the accepted manuscript. Alternative licences are permitted providing they are in line with funder requirements.

It is advisable to include the following sentence in your article’s financial disclosure or acknowledgements section: “For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission”. This ensures that the publisher is aware of your intention to retain the right to distribute the accepted manuscript.

On acceptance, deposit your article into the repository through Symplectic Elements.

Researchers can include any preference for an alternative Creative Commons licence using the options provided.

b) Opt Out

Email info@openaccess.cam.ac.uk stating your intention to opt out. When depositing papers into the repository through Symplectic Elements, it is your responsibility to inform us that you are opting out by using fields provided in the form.

More information about the new policy can be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/self-archiving-policy

Guidance and FAQs are available at https://www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk/publishing-open-access/self-archiving-policy-guidance

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