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The main University Library is home to over 8 million books, journals and other items. It has one of the largest collections on open shelves in Europe. With over two million volumes housed on open shelves, you can benefit from immediate access and unparalleled opportunities for browsing. Uniquely for a legal deposit library, much of our collection may be borrowed by University members.
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A home for the discovery of digitised material and research outputs from the University of Cambridge.
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The research output of members of the University.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
Read and search the full texts of more than 12,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters
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Royal Commonweath Society
Resources on the Commonwealth and Britain's former colonial territories.
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Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Founded in 1949 for the promotion and publication of bibliographical studies.
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Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
For the study of Judaism, economic and social history of the Early Modern period.
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A collection of the rarest material in the Library.
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We showcase many items from our collections in regular exhibitions, many of which are open to the public.
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