(Open) Heaven is a Place on Earth – or How to Get to Utopia Without Really Trying TAGS: open access | open scholarship | Repoitory Fringe | repositories A guest post from Gareth J Johnson (@llordllama) on the Open Access and Academia  Round Table led by Gareth and Dominic Tate on Thursday 1st August. Gareth is a former repository manager and is currently …Continue reading →

Edinburgh 300 : Cradle of Chemistry Images from the of Cradle of Chemistry which opened at University of Edinburgh Library on Thursday. The exhibition runs until 02/11/2013.

Western General Hospital Library and the Annexe TAGS: Annexe | Library Annexe | Site Libraries | Western General Hospital The University of Edinburgh Library operates on a number of sites around the city. One of these is the Western General Hospital Library which holds part of the University’s medicine …Continue reading →

Open Access Summit a great success Organised by the Open Access Implementation Programme the Summit took place on 24 July in the Main Library. William Nixon, Digital Library Development Manager at Glasgow was the guest speaker, …Continue reading →

Open Journals Forum event report TAGS: journal hosting service | OJS | open access | Open Journal System   We were very pleased that the OJS Forum was so popular. The event was fully booked and we were delighted to welcome 50 delegates from around the UK to …Continue reading →

New books at New College Library – August TAGS: Books | Divinity | early christianity | library catalogue | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | University of Edinburgh New College Library has a regular display of new books at the far end of the Library Hall, close to the door to the stacks. New in this month is Caesar …Continue reading →

Baldwin Brown Images of Old Edinburgh Recently in the DIU we have been digitizing 21 negatives of images described on their box Shelf-mark – E2005.1 Box 5, as ” Old Edinburgh.” We are aware that some …Continue reading →