Cambridge RAE results announced

Congratulations to the researchers who contributed to the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise). The results were published today by Hefce, the higher education funding council.

The RAE is a peer review exercise which evaluates the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. This assessment will inform the UK higher education funding bodies' distribution of grants (with effect from 2009-2010). However, the allocation of the approximate £1.2 billion to universities will not take place until March of next year.

All the results for Cambridge are available at: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/factsheets/rae-2008.pdf and full details about the RAE http://www.rae.ac.uk/

• 4* indicates quality that is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour',


• 3* indicates quality that is 'internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour but which nonetheless falls short of the highest standards of excellence',


• 2* indicates quality that is 'recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour',


• 1* which indicates quality 'that is recognised nationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour',


• 'unclassified', which indicates quality 'that falls below the standard of nationally recognised work' or 'work which does not meet the published definition of research for the purposes of this assessment'.

Full University news statement is available

E Books - Permanent subscriptions

The University is now subscribing to the following ebooks:-

• ADAMS AND VICTOR'S PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGY - 8th Ed. (2005)
• GOODMAN & GILMAN'S THE PHARMACOLOGICAL BASIS OF THERAPEUTICS - 11th Ed. (2006)
• HARRISON'S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE - 17th Ed. (2008)
• HURST'S THE HEART - 12th Ed. (2008)
• MAINGOT'S ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS - 11th Ed. (2007)
• OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANAESTHESIA - 2nd Ed. (2006)
• OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE - 3rd Ed. (2004)
• SMITH'S GENERAL UROLOGY - 17th Ed. (2008)
  

You can access them via Newton, the library catalogue, if you are off campus you will need to use your Raven password. If you want a preview click here :- home page. Click on Titles tab and select.

"TRIP Answers: because clinicians ask questions"

A great new resource from TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)

TRIP Answers:
"a repository of clinical questions and answers drawn from a wide number of sources around the world and builds on TRIP’s ten years experience of answering clinical questions. Ultimately, we want to create a resource where clinicians can easily find answers to their question and, who knows, create a clinical Q&A ‘space’ where users can share their own Q&As (it’s always struck us as wasteful that clinicians around the globe answer questions and this effort is never shared!)"

Find out more at http://www.tripanswers.org/

Christmas is coming

The Library closes at 12.30pm on Wednesday 24th December 2008,
and re-opens at 8.00am Friday 2nd January 2009.

Merry Christmas to all our readers, and very best wishes for the New Year.