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OnePetro is an online collection of technical documents, full text journals, and conference proceedings to support the oil and gas exploration and production industry.

Access via A-Z Databases on or off campus.

Users can sign in as individuals under Uiversity of Cambridge institutional account. This affiliates users with the subscription for 90 days so that they don’t have to visit OnePetro via the library network. At the end of 90 days, users will need to visit OnePetro from University of Cambridge institutional connection and sign in again to re-affiliate under the University of Cambridge subscription.

To do this, when you have already logged in via institutional connection ‘Register’ can be found to the left of University of Cambridge on the menu bar on the landing page. It can also, be accessed from the ‘sign in’ menu to the right of University of Cambridge

 
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Trial access to North Korean news databases NK News, NK Pro and KCNA Watch is now active and will run until 31 March 2026.

These independent specialist databases provide current information relating to North Korea, including analysis and news in English as well as advanced searching of archived North Korean media (news, magazines, and TV). In addition to the main NK News site, we will also have full access to NK Pro and KCNA Watch during the trial.

Please tell us what you think about this eresource by completing the trial feedback form here. Thank you.

Workers at the Mindulle Notebook Factory read the Rodong Sinmun. Image: KCTV (Dec. 1, 2025)

Cambridge University members now have trial access to Renmin Ribao Digital Archive 人民日报 (1946-2012), the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.

This trial is active now and ends 31 March 2026.

Please tell us what you think about this resource using our feedback form.

Renmin Ribao (人民日报, People’s Daily) is the central newspaper of record for the modern Chinese state. Since 1946, Renmin Ribao has published the official policies and viewpoints of China’s central government and has been the voice of the upper echelons of power in the People’s Republic of China.

Renmin Ribao publishes authoritative reports by government and party leaders, politically oriented speeches and articles, and covers major events at home and abroad. The newspaper is also important for the editorials, regarded as rather authoritative statements of government policy, covering politics and culture, communist theory and philosophy, and Marxist economics.

You can also access this archive via the Databases AZ.

Please note articles may take a few minutes to download due to large file size.

Researchers and students at Cambridge University have access to Europresse, which provides access to current newspapers and also to some of their archives.

Europresse have just announced improvements to the platform –

Introduction of facets or search filters – a new way to refine searches has been integrated using interactive facets. This advanced customization enhances the fluidity and precision of your searches, making it easier to access relevant information.

200 new academic and professional sources with archives  – L’Etudiant, le Monde in english, l’Humanité, l’Opinion, Historia.

You can now select your favorites pdf titles and make them appear in the “pdf section” for your users.

You can create thematic folders and share them with your students, for example, Artificial Intelligence, Elections, War in Ukrain, Climate change, French Economy, Newspapers front pages.

Deployment of FACIL’iti – this is an accessibility solution that adapts website display to the specific needs of users (visual, motor, cognitive impairments)

You can find free video training tutorials here and more information about Europresse here.

Please note we are only allowed 2 concurrent users, so remember to log out from your sessio when you are done.

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University members now have trial access to Cinelogue, an online platform for film curation, global streaming, and critical dialogue, with a strong focus on the cinema of the Global Majority.

This trial is active now and ends 12 April 2026.

Please tell us what you think about this resource using our feedback form.

Cinelogue is developing a permanent, library focused film collection designed specifically for universities. Their aim is to establish a long term licensed catalogue of approximately 150 films by Autumn 2026, with new titles added each month. The collection draws from Cinelogue’s curated programmes as well as selected standalone works.

You can access Cinelogue and more eresources for Film Studies via the Databases AZ.

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University now provides direct access to The Economist (from 1997 to present) via the Economist website.

This highly regarded magazine is published weekly and covers many business related topics such as world events, politics, finance & economics, and science & technology.

You can also access earlier issues via the Economist Historial Archive (1843-2015) and the Databases A-Z.

From Jan 28th 2026 –

“For the first time in 54 years there are no pandas in Japan. It is a sign of worsening relations with China. The last panda

On January 25th tearful crowds bade farewell to Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, twin pandas at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. Some 110,000 people applied for 4,400 viewing spots. Many who missed out went along anyway, waving flags that read “Thank you, Xiao and Lei.”

For the first time in 54 years Japan is without pandas. In a country where they have cult status, their absence is hard to ignore. It is also emblematic of cooling relations with China. The country’s panda diplomacy dates to 1972, when China gave Japan its first pair to mark the normalisation of diplomatic ties. The animals sparked a craze. Since then, dozens have lived in Japanese zoos. “Pandas have been the face of this place for over 50 years,” says Kaneko Mikako, a deputy director of Ueno. “It’s sad that this chapter is ending.”

Officially, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei left because their loan expired. But “if relations were good, China would have sent replacements straight away,” reckons Maeshima Kazuhiro of Sophia University in Tokyo. At the end of last year Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, suggested Japan might intervene militarily if there were trouble over Taiwan. China furiously suspended seafood imports from Japan and restricted exports of dual-use goods. Meanwhile, South Korea looks poised to receive new pandas following a cordial meeting between the two countries’ presidents.

When—or if—pandas will return to Japan is unclear. Ms Takaichi’s stance seems to have buoyed her ratings; she is unlikely to back down over a few fluffy cubs. Among voters, too, love for pandas doesn’t always extend to China. “I adore pandas, but China scares me,” admits Matsui Saeko, a zoo visitor. One poll in 2024 showed that nearly 90% of Japanese have negative views of China. For now, though Ueno’s panda house sits empty, zookeepers hope to keep the memory of Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei alive with paw prints and replicas of their droppings.”

We are pleased to announce that researchers and students at Cambridge University now have access to Royal African Company, 1694-1743 from the Social History Archive Primary Source Series.

You can also access Royal African Company, 1694-1743 from the Social History Archive via the Databases AZ.

These records are part of The National Archives’ T 70 series, ‘Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading with Africa and successors’. They contain the names of thousands of individuals who travelled on board the Royal African Company’s ships to and from Africa, as well as the names of those who lived and died at the numerous company forts.

The Royal African Company was a mercantile enterprise operating from 1660 until its dissolution in 1750. It was initially incorporated as the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa, before being reconstituted in 1672 as the Royal African Company of England. The company held a monopoly over trade along the West African coast. Until the 1730s, its primary business was the transatlantic slave trade, in which it played a central role, transporting enslaved African men, women, and children to British colonies. Over several centuries, this system forcibly displaced millions of people. After years of campaigning for the abolition of slavery, the slave trade was abolished in Britain in 1807, and in most British colonies in 1833.

Several records in this series contain racial categorisation for hundreds of the people mentioned in them. These terms reflect the seventeenth and eighteenth century’s practice of describing non-white European individuals as ‘black’, ‘negro’, or ‘mulatto’. The original records contain all three of the foregoing terms and, while the distinction between ‘black’ and ‘mulatto’ is generally adhered to, sometimes the terms are used interchangeably, and the same person may be described as ‘mulatto’ and ‘black’ or ’negro’ in different records. It is worth noting that not all people of colour are described as such, and sometimes the records are silent in this respect. The terms used in these documents reflect attitudes and language at the time and are now considered derogatory and offensive.

The promotional brochure for the archive is available below.

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Image credit: Shipping Scene from the Collection of Philip Hollingworth (1720s) by Elisha Kirkall after Willem van de Velde the Elder from the collections of the National Gallery of Art (This object’s media is free and in the public domain.)

We are pleased to announce a new trial for EconLit with full text until 22nd April 2026.

Please send us your feedback using the online form. 

Our current access to EconLit is to abstracts and citations. The trial access will give you access to the full text of 512 active full-text journals and magazines.

EconLit with Full Text is the full-text counterpart to EconLit, the American Economic Association’s authoritative index for economic literature.

In addition to all 1.9 million records available in EconLit, this database provides full text for key economic journals.

Subjects Include

• Agricultural economics
• Business economics
• Capital markets
• Country studies
• Econometrics
• Economic forecasting
• Economic systems
• Environmental economics
• Financial economics
• General economics
• Government regulations
• History of economic thought
• Industrial organization
• International economics
• Labor and demographic economics
• Law and economics
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• Monetary theory
• Public economics
• Rural economics
• Urban economics

Text from the EBSCO website for EconLit.

We are pleased to announce a new trial for  NEJM AI – New England journal of medicine artificial intelligence

From the NEJM Group website for the journal:

“About NEJM AI

NEJM AI, a new monthly journal from NEJM Group, explores the cutting-edge applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in clinical medicine.”

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Access NEJM AI – New England journal of medicine artificial intelligence via iDiscover. Full access is available from 2014 to present.

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Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy  is now available to members of the University of Cambridge from volume 1 (2020) to present.

From the Emerald website for the journal:

“The Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (JPIPE) publishes cutting edge work at the intersection of these two interrelated fields of study: Political institutions (systems of politics and government or structures of voluntary cooperation that resolve collective-action and coordination problems in society) and Political economy (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, political science, and law to explain how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system interact and influence each other).”

Access Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy via iDiscover.

Journal of Historical Political Economy is now available to members of the University of Cambridge from volume 1 (2021) to present.

From the Emerald website for the journal:

“The Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) publishes cutting edge work in political economy (or how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system interact and influence each other) from an historical perspective. The journal serves a latent community that exists mostly in the Political Science and Economics communities. In recent years, a larger and larger group of political scientists have been doing quantitative-historical work that involves political economy. Over the same timespan, in Economics, economic historians have increasingly focused on political-economy topics and taken seriously the “politics” in that research. Given the boundaries that typically exist across academic disciplines, these two groups of scholars rarely talk to one another or read each other’s work. The Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) will actively work to get the two groups in dialogue.”

Access Journal of Historical Political Economy via iDiscover.

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Work in the global economy is now available to members of the University of Cambridge from volume 1 (2021) to present.

From the Bristol University Press website for the journal:

“Work in the Global Economy is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that promotes understanding of work, and connections to work, in all forms and dimensions. This can mean a focus on labour processes, labour markets, labour organising and labour reproduction. The editors welcome wide-ranging contributions that extend and deepen connections between all aspects of the division of labour: from the production networks that underpin the global economy, to the gendered and racial divides that shape how work is allocated and organised.

“The journal is associated with, and rooted in, the traditions of the International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) which was established in 1983. The labour process tradition reflects certain priorities, including analysis of the pathways between capitalist political economy and the changing workplace; the centrality of work and its management and regulation to economy and society; and the development of a variety of materialist understandings of those principals.

“However, like the conference, the journal adopts a pluralist approach to theory, method and discipline. We also encourage contributions from both emerging and existing scholars. Foregrounding the diverse interests that compose labour and capital in the Global South and North, the journal promotes interdisciplinary and international agendas that have broad appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of work, employment relations and human resource management, organisational studies, political economy, labour geography, labour history and development studies”

Access Work in the Global Economy via iDiscover.

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Journal of European Integration History  = Revue d’histoire de l’intégration européenne = Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Europäischen Integration is now available to members of the University of Cambridge from volume 12 (2006) to present.

From the Inlibra website for the journal:

“The Journal of European Integration History provides a forum for research on the European integration process in all its aspects: political, military, economic, technological, social, and cultural.

“It focusses on contributions covering specific unification projects since 1945, but also publishes works on their precursors and preparations.The purpose of the Journal is to encourage the analysis and understanding of different aspects of European integration, especially since 1945, in as wide a perspective as possible. The Journal publishes the conclusions of research on diplomatic, military, economic, technological, social and cultural aspects of integration.

“The journal is published twice a year. In addition to thematic issues, there are “open” issues, and reviews of important new publications are also published each time. The articles by an international group of authors are published in English, French or German.”

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Hunter Gatherer Research is now available to members of the University of Cambridge from 2002 to present.

From the Liverpool University Press website for the journal:

“Published on behalf of the International Society of Hunter Gatherer Research, Hunter Gatherer Research is an international, multi-disciplinary quarterly online publication that covers all aspects of hunter-gatherer studies, whether focusing on the present, past or future. We welcome all theoretical and empirical work, including those with clear implications for understanding hunter-gatherer communities, and studies that extend theories from hunter-gatherer research to other societies.

“The journal encompasses social and cultural anthropology, applied research, archaeology, ecology, ethnography, ethnohistory, evolutionary anthropology, genetics, indigenous rights, and linguistics, and is an indispensable resource for anyone with a research or activist interest in hunter-gatherers.”

Access Hunter Gatherer Research via iDiscover. Access from 2002 to 2012 is available under the earlier title Before farming : the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers. Full access from 2002 to present is available from either title/link.

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University members now have trial access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III).

This trial is active now and ends 10 February 2026.

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Research into the transformative impact of the eighteenth century enriches our understanding of modern institutions and fosters broad cultural awareness. From its inception, ECCO was intended to connect researchers to a comprehensive digital collection of published materials from the eighteenth century. Cambridge users already have access to ECCO I and ECCO II which include over thirty-two million pages of primary source content – however, the collection was not yet complete.

Twenty years after the release of ECCO I, the discovery of new titles and new developments in scanning technology have made it possible to bring researchers rare and relevant eighteenth-century materials previously unavailable in digital form. ECCO III provides 1.7 million newly digitized pages in full colour, added perspectives from the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe, as well as unique materials in unusual formats and sizes, including broadsides, maps, and book covers.

Watch this video to learn more about ECCO III.

Please note ECCO Part III is cross-searchable with the other two parts via the trial link. To single out just Part III, the “archive” filter can be applied either from the advanced search page or the filters on the right of a search results page.

We are pleased to announce that researchers and students at Cambridge University now have access to Covidence, a collaborative systematic review management tool. You can use Covidence to manage and support the review steps of title and abstract screening, full-text screening, data extraction and quality assessment.

See how it works by watching this video.

How to access Covidence

First time users need to register with their @cam.ac.uk email address and create a new account here. Existing users can sign in via Single Sign-On (SSO). Full SSO instructions for both new and existing users are available on this support page for Cambridge users.

You can also access Covidence via the Databases AZ.

Covidence training webinar

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 1000-1100

Attend this training webinar to learn how Covidence can assist in streamlining your research process – includes a live demo and Q&A, providing an overview of the systematic review workflow and showcases some of our most popular features including settings, importing, title and abstract screening, full-text review, extraction 2.0, export and PRISMA.

Register to attend. If you can’t attend live, register anyway to receive the recording.

“And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”
— 1 Samuel 16:23 (KJV)

The healing properties of music have been posited since ancient times. The age of enlightenment in Europe, from the 17th to 19th centuries, saw much advancement in the fields of both medicine and the musical arts. The shift from a focus on humoral theory to viewing the body as an interconnected system of functions elevated the nervous system as a central subject of study. In this context, the pressures of modern urban life contributed to the widespread diagnosis of ‘nervousness’, particularly among affluent and intellectual urban populations.

James Gillray, A Little Music. Hand-colored etching, published 1810.
(Source: Art Institute Chicago)

One of the Whipple Library’s recent acquisitions, Peter Lichtenthal’s Der musikalische Arzt (The Musical Doctor), produced in Vienna in 1807, reflects this period when European intellectual life increasingly sought to explain human health through the interaction of body and mind. Peter Lichtenthal was an Austrian physician and composer. He studied medicine and music in Vienna and Der musikalische Arzt was written during his studies. Rather than presenting music purely as entertainment, Lichtenthal framed it as an intervention capable of altering one’s physiological and emotional states. This aligns with broader medical literature of the period, which increasingly described music as being capable of producing demonstrable changes to the functioning of the body.

Title page of the Whipple Library’s copy of Der musikalische Arzt (1807) by Peter Lichtenthal.

Lichtenthal’s thinking also reflects the influence of the Brunonian system of medicine, developed by the Scottish physician John Brown in the late 18th century. Brunonian theory argued that health depended on the body’s level of “excitability”, and that disease resulted from either overstimulation or understimulation. Treatment aimed to restore balance through either stimulation or sedation. Within this framework, music was understood not merely as entertainment but as a physiological catalyst capable of altering the body’s nervous state. Beyond Der musikalische Arzt, Lichtenthal is also known for his Dizionario e bibliografia della musica (Dictionary and Bibliography of Music), a foundational musicological reference work, which he produced during his time living in Milan in 1826, where he worked within the spheres of medicine and music until his death.

Early 19th-century Vienna was one of Europe’s most important centres of culture and learning. By the early 19th century, physicians and philosophers were attempting to move beyond purely anecdotal accounts toward testable theories of how music affected the body. This intellectual climate drew on older classical traditions that framed music as a force acting directly upon the body. Ancient Greek and Roman writers had long argued that melody and rhythm could alter emotional and physical states, and these ideas remained influential well into the modern period.

Lichtenthal’s epigraph is a quotation from Impetum faciens dictum Hippocrati (1745) by Abraham Kaau Boerhaave. In English, it roughly translates to: “I doubt whether all that is said about incantations and charms should not be attributed to the effects of music, because the ancient physicians excelled in them.”

Vienna boasted a highly developed print culture by the early 19th century. As was typical for scientific works produced in the German language of this time, Der musikalische Arzt employs Fraktur type, with minimal decorative elements.

With thanks to Nicole Atherton for providing this guest post.

References:

James Kennaway, From Sensibility to Pathology: The Origins of the Idea of Nervous Music around 1800, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2010, Pages 396–426, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrq004

Pratt, R.R., Jones, R.W. (1987). Music and Medicine: A Partnership in History. In: Spintge, R., Droh, R. (eds) Musik in der Medizin / Music in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71697-3_36 

Kim, Youn, and Sander L. Gilman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body, Oxford Handbooks (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 10 July 2018), https://doi-org.manchester.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190636234.001.0001

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University users now have access to the database Building Types Online, a resource for the study and practice of architectural design.

Entrance to Pflaum House in Falkensee near Berlin (Source: Carsten Krohn)

Building Types Online is based on Birkhäuser’s high international standing in professional architecture books, on the knowledge of the authors and editors who are leading experts in their fields, as well as on the technical quality of the illustrations.

The database offers exclusive and unparalleled, highly flexible and detailed search and browse access to the contents of the Birkhäuser program on building types. All content was written and selected by internationally renowned authors in architectural design. Information on how to search and sort your results is available here.

You can also access this resource via the Databases AZ.

Exploring French and Francophone electronic resources at Cambridge

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University users now have full access to Pragda STREAM following a successful trial earlier this term.

Pragda STREAM provides access currently to 552 Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx documentaries and feature films, all in their original language with English captions or subtitles. Most of the 552 films are exclusive to Pragda, and available 24/7 via Pragda’s streaming platform.

With more than 30 countries and 50 subjects represented, this resource can facilitate research across a range of disciplines. The platform focuses on diverse topics, including films about political and environmental causes, the experiences of Indigenous peoples in Latin America, stories of migration and exile, and narratives highlighting the perspectives of women and the LGBTQ+ community. 

Access is available on and off campus via this link.

From this link you will be logged in automatically as a generic “University of Cambridge User” and have access to all of the trial content (552 titles). You can see licensed content by clicking on the My Movies link at the top of most pages and then on the title, or by searching for content and then clicking on “Watch now” in the search results.

You can access Pragda STREAM via the Databases A-Z.

Title records are also available in iDiscover.