BLPES builds, curates and makes publicly accessible an international collection of material to support research and teaching in social science. It consists of over 4 million items in physical and digital form including books, journals, pamphlets, official publications, statistical series, archives, manuscripts and museum objects, with associated services to enable their discovery and use. Its research objective is the facilitation of social science scholarship through the curation of unique and...

BOSCORF is the UK’s national deep-sea sediment core research facility and provides a unique and strategic service to the environmental science community. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art non-destructive core logging and analysis capability that is unique in the UK. BOSCORF also provides specialised long-term sediment core storage facilities, so that sediment cores collected by NERC ships, and NERC- funded researchers, can be kept under optimum conditions to ensure long-term preservation...

The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and written descriptions of the signing in the multimedia annotation tool ELAN. The video clips were collected as part of the original BSL Corpus Project, funded between 2008 and 2011 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The BSL Corpus is based at the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL), University College...

CSD3 is a multi-institution service underpinned by an innovative, petascale, data-centric HPC platform, designed specifically to drive data-intensive simulation and high-performance data analysis. The new service constitutes a major addition to the UK national e-infrastructure, which will enable large scale simulation and next generation data analytics capability for researchers across a broad range of disciplines. The CSD3 platform has been co-designed with DELL EMC, Intel and NVIDIA. A non...

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden holds a plant collection of over 8000 plant species from all over the world to facilitate teaching and research. The Garden provides resources including plant material, horticultural expertise and facilities to research workers and lecturers. Since its foundation, however, the Botanic Garden has also provided a beautiful place for everybody to enjoy and benefit from - a series of wonderful landscapes through which to discover the drama of plant diversity...

The Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE), part of the Department of Plant Sciences, is an internationally significant collection of over 1.1 million dried, pressed, and mounted plant specimens. Dating back at least as far as 1703, specimens from around the world have been added to the collection as a result of purchases, gifts, exchanges and benefactions.

The collection is particularly historically and taxonomically important, with one of the best collections of British material in the...

What we do: Cambridge University Libraries forms one of the world's leading research libraries providing access to and support for national and international scholarship based on its research collections. The main University Library is a flagship research library; working within a distributed network of faculty, departmental and College libraries which together form the rich collections for international scholarship.

Who can use the service?: The main University Library is open to all...

The Cardiff University Biobank facility houses a large storage space for up to 900,000 biological samples including blood, urine, tissue and saliva. The facility can provide fresh, frozen and processed (serum, plasma, slides) samples which are collected and stored to the highest standards. Patients and healthy volunteers kindly donate these biological samples to enable researchers to gain a deeper understanding of diseases. The samples are crucial in allowing researchers to find better ways to...

Founded in 1883, Cardiff University is ranked among the top five universities in the UK for research excellence, and is the only Russell Group university in Wales. Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives was established in 2005 to improve the discovery, visibility, access to, and use of the University Library Service's unique and distinctive collections. We are home to c. 100,000 print volumes dating from the 15th century to the modern day, 700 metres of historical and modern...

The Centre of Excellence will provide an insect bioreactor of sufficient scale to enable research and development activities to be undertaken by multiple industries and academia. The facility will also serve for training purposes. • The insect bioreactor will enable studies utilising a diverse range of organic materials for insect rearing and will enable segregation of rearing substrates and end products. • The facility will enable research on both the downstream (organic residues) and...