The Cambridgeshire Collection carries a wide range of periodicals from local newsletters to learned journals. These include:
- Cambridge Univerity Reporter, the official journal of the University
- Church and parochial news. Older, pre-war issues of the parish magazines contained many detailed notes on village activities and organisations
- Village magazines and newsletters, sometimes with feature articles of importance
- Journals from local societies and firms with activities and developments
- General interest local magazines, such as ‘Cambridgeshire Journal’ National periodicals, such as 'Country Life' and ‘Architectural Review’, which may contain specialist articles on Cambridgeshire
- Notes and Queries, East Anglian and Fenland editions
- Local popular magazines: including East Anglian Magazine, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough Life
- Local learned journals, such as Cambridgeshire Local History Council "Bulletin" Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society Proceedings
- Family History, many titles including Cambridgeshire Family History Society Journal, University of Cambridge Biographical Information