Trial – Punch Historical Archive TAGS: Arts | Gale | media | perceptions of science and technological change | political and social history | Punch Historical Archive We have trial access to Punch Historical Archive until the 14th February. From 1841 to 1992 Punch was the world’s most celebrated magazine of humour and satire – imitated, parodied …Continue reading →

December E-Book News TAGS: American History | American Literature | art | Berg Fashion Library | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Classical Studies | Computer Science | Dawsonera | Dictionaries | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | education | Elsevier | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fine Arts | General Science | Geography | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Humanities | Language and Linguistics | language reference works | Law | Life Sciences | mass communication | mathematics | media | Multidisciplinary | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Reference Online | Oxford University Press | Philosophy | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Science Direct | Social science | Sociology We have additions to the following e-book packages. Berg Fashion Library – We have added 70 e-books to our catalogue in December.  See a list of the Berg e-books (currently …Continue reading →

SPS Librarian Top 5 blog posts 2014 – no. 4 TAGS: databases | gender studies | media | new | online resources | Politics | social anthropology | Sociology | Womens' Studies As exams are almost over and semester one nears its end we are reposting our Top 5 blog posts from this year, every day in the final week of semester. …Continue reading →

SPS Librarian Top 5 blog posts 2014 – no. 5 TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | databases | e-books | e-journals | journals | media | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | Womens' Studies As exams are almost over and semester one nears its end we are reposting our Top 5 blog posts from this year, every day in the final week of semester. …Continue reading →

Autumn E-Book News TAGS: Access Engineering | American History | American University in Cairo Press | Anthem Press | Archaeology | art | astronomy | Boydell & Brewer | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Cambridge Histories | Cambridge Histories Online | Cambridge University Press | Classical Studies | Dawsonera | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | Economics & Finance | Edinburgh University Press | education | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fordham University Press | General Science | Geography | history | Hong Kong University Press | International Relations & Development | Jagiellonian University Press | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | Liverpool University Press | Management | Manchester University Press | mass communication | Mathematical Association of America | mathematics | media | Media & Culture | MIT Press | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Handbooks | Oxford Scholarship Online | Palgrave | Philosophy | Policy Press | Political Science | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Sociology | Stanford University Press | Statistics and Probability | Taylor & Francis | Theatre & Performance | University of Adelaide Press | University of California Press | University of Chicago Press | University Press of Florida | University Press of Kentucky | UPSO | Yale University Press The following have seen additions to content and have been or are in the process of being added to our catalogue. Access Engineering has seen about 30 title additions as …Continue reading →

Trial – Punch Historical Archive TAGS: Arts | Gale | media | perceptions of science and technological change | political and social history | Punch Historical Archive We have trial access to Punch Historical Archive until the 6th December. From 1841 to 1992 Punch was the world’s most celebrated magazine of humour and satire – imitated, parodied …Continue reading →

Your friend BoB (Box of Broadcasts) TAGS: BoB | BoB national | Box of Broadcasts | media | radio | Record | TV Want to find out how to: View & record over 1 million TV & Radio programmes Create clips & clip compilations Compile favourite shows into playlists and share them with …Continue reading →

Trial access to BBC Monitoring Library now available TAGS: International Relations | media | Newspapers | Politics | trials The Library has set up trial access to BBC Monitoring Library and you can access this resource on the Databases trials page at www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-trials BBC Monitoring was created in 1939 …Continue reading →

Help ma’ BoB TAGS: BoB national | Box of Broadcasts | media | radio | TV The University subscribes to BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National to help enrich teaching and learning with moving image and sound. BoB enables all staff and students to record any upcoming …Continue reading →

Scottish Government Yearbooks now available online TAGS: media | online resources | Politics | Scottish referendum The Scottish Government Yearbooks, which were published by the University of Edinburgh’s ‘Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland’ between 1976 and 1992, are now freely available online for …Continue reading →