The Technology Libraries Team at the Engineering Department & West Hub are pleased to announce our new open training programme for the Lent Term.
Ready to create a standout academic poster? Whether you're preparing for a conference or an assignment, this live, interactive online workshop will teach you everything you need to know about designing and presenting an effective academic poster.
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.
Time: No booking needed, visit us anytime from 10-1pm
Location: West Hub First-floor
Open to all
Have you thought about using AI in your research but aren’t sure how to get started? Or are you already using AI and have run into challenges with implementation?
Come and meet Accelerate Science’s team of AI experts to find the support you need.
The Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery, based in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, offers support for researchers across the University to use AI in their research. We are pleased to announce that our training courses & workshops for next term are open for booking!
Date & Time: From 07 April to 07 May 2025
Location: Multiple places on the West Campus.
Open to all postgraduate students and staff, our courses are designed to support you at all stages of implementing AI in your research.
Join us for courses exploring key topics in AI as well as two hands on workshops to apply your AI skills:
Register now to secure your booking.
If you need to look something up we recommend Access Engineering to quickly find the answer you need. It searches the latest edition of engineering handbooks and textbooks, and will take you directly to the relevant chapter or paragraph. For some topics you'll also find step-by-step videos and solution walkthroughs.
Access via the Cambridge subscription: https://www-accessengineeringlibrary-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/
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.
We would like to invite you to present at our next Research Café on research related to poverty and the cost of Living taking place on the 30th of April 2025 from 11:30 to 2:30 pm!
Visit our page for more details or submit your abstract by 31st March 2025 here!
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 opportunities to engage with peers outside of your immediate discipline and enjoy pizza while raising your profile and finding research connections.
All research related to the global challenges of poverty and the cost of living, are welcome. For example:
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!
>>See here what participants say about the Research Café. <<
Apollo, the place for your researchIt is now possible to make open access, research data and doctoral thesis deposits into Apollo from Elements.
A new preprints deposit service is also available. You can now use Elements to deposit preprints in Apollo:
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.
The 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:
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.
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
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:
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.
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.
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.