Issues for research software preservation [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/09/18/research-software-preservation/] Twelve years ago I was working as a research assistant on an EPSRC funded project.  My primary role was to write software that allowed vehicle wiring to be …Continue reading →

The Royal Medical Society publishes new issue Res Medica, the Journal of the Royal Medical Society, founded in 1957 has published its first new issue online using the Library’s Journal Hosting Service. The first new issue features …Continue reading →

Open Access milestone: 10,000th deposit TAGS: open access We are delighted to announce that this month we have deposited the 10,000th open access article in our Current Research Information System (PURE). All this content is made publicly available …Continue reading →

Peter Higgs and Hunting the Boson Peter Higgs – one of the University’s most famous living physicists – is the subject of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.  We have loaned one of …Continue reading →

Looking at the Acta Sanctorum – Life of St Cuthbert TAGS: church history | Funk | Latin | medieval | New College Library | online | rare books | saints | seventeenth-century | University of Edinburgh We welcomed University of Edinburgh MSc Medieval History students today for a tour of New College Library and the chance to see one of the texts they were studying, the …Continue reading →

Fire and Brimstone This week we have been working on some Religious pamphlets for the English Short Title Catalogue. These have come from both the New College Library and here at the Centre …Continue reading →

RDM in the arts and humanities The tenth Research Data Management Forum (RDMF), organised by DCC was held in St Anne’s College, University of Oxford on 3 and 4 September. Thus follows an account of proceedings, …Continue reading →

New College Library’s Torah Scroll TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | book sale | Funk | Hebrew | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | Special Collections New College Library’s Torah Scroll (Pentateuch) was on display to visitors today in the Funk Reading Room. Scrolls such as these are an integral part of Jewish communal life, being …Continue reading →

First data curation profile created at Edinburgh Following our involvement in the pilot presentation of the “RDM Training for Liaison Librarians” course, and taking inspiration from the existing model at Purdue University in the U.S., three liaison colleagues (Marshall Dozier, Angela Nicholson, Nahad Gilbert) …Continue reading →

Welcome to the Main Library TAGS: Main Library | Statistics [wpcs] It’s the start of the new academic year, so we’d like to welcome back existing University of Edinburgh students, and introduce the library to our freshers.  You may have …Continue reading →