Welcome to the all-new education resources tab! This is a one-stop page which consolidates quick-access links to various academic databases and software that might be useful across different types of courses – not just those on which Cambridge already has institutional licenses for, but also others where one can request directly for a free educational/academic license!
Have any ideas or suggestions on what databases or software to include here? Simply drop an email to mcr.academic@fitz.cam.ac.uk – this page is non-exhaustive and will have rolling updates!
Department Academic Resource Pages
Resource Page | Fields / Topics | What does it have? |
| Marshall Library | Economics & Development Studies | Company information, past dissertations, micro/macro-economic statistical datasets, news and working papers |
| Judge Business School | Business & Marketing | Market research, company and financial information |
Literature Review Databases
General
Resource | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| Scopus | Abstract and citation database, useful for systematic literature reviews | “Sign in via Institution” to access additional features such as saving and managing advanced searches |
| ScienceDirect Recommendations | Abstract and citation database, useful for systematic literature reviews | |
| Mendeley Search Engine | Abstract and citation database, useful for systematic literature reviews and export to Mendeley Desktop | |
| iDiscover | Unified database for the University’s libraries print catalogues, e-books and online collections, including past Cambridge theses approved | |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I | Largest database of academic dissertation and theses | University members will be prompted for their Raven ID |
Field-Specific
Resource | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| PubMed | Citation database for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and e-books | Institutional login available |
| IEEE Xplore | Database for technical literature in engineering and technology | Institutional login available |
| EconBiz | Academic search portal for journals, working papers, and conferences in business studies and economics | Free access |
| ERIC | Literature database for educational research |
Business, Economics, Market & Company Databases
Resource | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| Crunchbase | Platform for finding business information about private and public companies, with advanced filtering options based on location, industry, size, financials etc. | Free 14-day trial for additional premium features |
| Craft.co | Platform for finding and visualising business information, including financials charts, online presence analytics and market competitors | |
| FAME | Platform for finding UK and Ireland businesses | For off-campus access, type in “University of Cambridge” and University members will prompted for their Raven ID |
| Companies House | UK’s registrar of companies, can be used to locate annual financial statements and company returns | |
| S&P Global Market Intelligence | University members will be prompted for their Raven ID | |
| IBIS World | Industry and market reports database covering UK, US, China and Australia. Reports can be downloaded as PDFs. | University members will be prompted for their Raven ID |
| Mintel Academic | Mintel Market Sizes | Industry and market reports database containing market size, market share and forecast data | For off-campus access, choose “Federated log in”, type in “University of Cambridge” and University members will be prompted for their Raven ID |
News Databases
Resource | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| Factiva | Provides access to the full-text of most of the world’s newspapers | |
| BBC Monitoring | News monitoring database that selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 100 languages. | Access to free trial possible |
Literature Review Tools
Software | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| Mendeley Desktop | Reference manager for research papers | Freeware: Download page here; Includes Mendeley Web Importer, a browser extension that allows importing of journal papers and metadata from browsed websites |
| Zotero | Reference manager for research papers | Freeware: Download page here; includes Zotero Connector, a browser extension that allows importing of journal papers and metadata from browsed websites |
| NVivo | Qualitative data analysis (QDA) to systematically organise and analyse data sources such as interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content | Refer to UIS Software Distribution catalogue: https://software.uis.cam.ac.uk/product/10180 |
Data Visualisation
Software | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| Tableau | Data organisation, visualisation and analysis platform | Free 1-year license for academic use can be obtained here |
| Datawrapper | Online chart and map visualisation platform | Free plans have full functionality |
| ThinkCell | Presentation software which makes the task of creating professional PowerPoint presentations easy and efficient. It contains an Excel add-in for consistently rounding numbers across complex calculations and multiple worksheets, and integrates seamlessly with PowerPoint to visualise complex charts. | Free licenses only for Department of Engineering, refer here |
| Canva | Graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content |
Programming & Mathematical Computation
Software | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| MATLAB | Programming language and numeric computing environment that allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. | University of Cambridge offers a campus-wide MATLAB license. Check this page for more information. |
Engineering & Design Tools
Software | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| AutoCAD | Commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application | Educational institutions worldwide qualify for free access to Autodesk software through the Autodesk Education Community. Check this page for more information. |
Conferencing & Collaboration Tools
Software | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| Asana | Web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Includes to-do dashboards and Gantt chart planning. | |
| Otter.ai | Automated audio transcription | Free 600 min / month |
| Doodle | Online calendar tool for coordinating meetings | |
| when2meet | Online calendar tool for coordinating meetings |
Printing Utilities
Software | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| DS-Print for macOS and Windows | For printing at Cambridge printers | Follow the steps on the page: (1) Download and Run DS-Print utility, (2) Login using CRSid, (3) Select the Fitzwilliam printers to install, Check “Install PaperCut client”, (4) “Make changes”, (5) PaperCut printer client will be installed. For help specific to Fitzwilliam printers see here. |
Software Pages
Resource Page | What is it for? | Remarks on Access |
| UIS Software page | Cambridge-wide software page by UIS | Raven login |