Postgraduate Resources
Research Students Booklet
Demonstrating and Supervising in the Department of Earth Sciences
A pdf of the Department guidelines may be found here...
CamTools
Past papers
The CAMCORS system for submitting supervision reports.
Format of a dissertation
The closest you'll get to a style guide for you projects.
Transferable skills
- Transferable Skills Training
- University of Cambridge Postgraduate Transferable Skills Website
- University of Cambridge Skills Site
- University of Cambridge: The Skills Directory has been replaced by the University of Cambridge Training booking system, other providers can be found here on the Skills Portal
- University staff development Programme
- University computing services courses
- Vitae -Vitae is the UK organisation championing the personal, professional and career development of doctoral researchers and research staff in higher education institutions and research institutes(RDP).
- Organising information
Links to Resources
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- SciVerse
- Georef via GSW
- Proquest Figures & Tables - a new features, not entirely sure how useful this will be. Please send feedbackto the library
- Scifinder Scholar
- E-journals
- Online catalogue
- OpenDOAR - the directory of open access repositories
- Cambridge Earth Sciences publications on eprints
- List of Serials (old)
- Journal abbreviations
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- E-books
- Intute Earth Sciences
- Digital Map Library
- ZETOC
- COPAC
- Index to theses - no longer active
- Proquest Digital Dissertations Database
- FindaPhD.com
- Google Scholar
- Scirus search engine
- ScienceResearch
- Earthref
- Geology.com
- Resources overview
Information Literacy and study skills
Defining the information need. Tips from:
- University of Edinburgh’s Search strategy tips
- The OU's Information skills for researchers
- Roehampton University’s: Researcher’s Companion
- Creating a search query
- Current awareness
- Searching the online catalogue – short tutorials designed to help you use Newton Also see ‘Quick Tip Guide no. 1’
- Citation searching using GeoScienceWorld AND Web of Knowledge
- Tips for using GeoRef via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Tracking down literature not in Cambridge (ILLs) –
Last updated on 01-Mar-13 15:35