New RDM post Research Data Management Service Coordinator  https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=018035 The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Research Data Management Service Coordinator to spearhead the development of a compelling user-shaped Research Data Management …Continue reading →

Green light for research data storage and management plans As published in IS BITS Magazine, Issue 7, Summer 2013 – We have received the go-ahead to proceed with our plans to establish a service for the secure storage, management, …Continue reading →

New Baldwin Brown Images of Old Edinburgh. As promised here are five more images of Old Edinburgh to test your memory! We first posted some images of Old Edinburgh a few weeks ago and got some great …Continue reading →

Open Access Information Sessions The other week I took my first trip down to the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, based at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital.  I had been invited to give a presentation …Continue reading →

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School Last month I was lucky enough to attend a week long Summer School in Oxford- and being the week that the heat wave kicked in, it really did feel like …Continue reading →

(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 →