Planning for Open Access in REF2020 – Some Thoughts I’ve been back in the office a couple of days since Friday’s excellent workshop on implementing HEFCE’s policy and have finally had time to look at my notes and gather my thoughts.  …Continue reading →

Art Exposed TAGS: Art Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | fine art | Museums | Naked | Nudes | pop up library A chance to experience rarely seen paintings and objects from the University’s Art Collection *UPDATE: Now with added Paolozzi* Recently we learned that the most searched for term on our brand new Art …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 →

SRUC: Another Institutional Repository TAGS: SDLC Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) is the latest Scottish Digital Library Consortium (SDLC) partner to use our services to host their institutional repository. The SRUC are based at King’s Buildings, but …Continue reading →

How do I get hold of the book I need? TAGS: inter-library loans | online resources | RAB | Recommend A Book | Resources Plus | self-request With Resources Plus! Found a book in the Catalogue or Searcher and don’t know how to get it? Someone already borrowed the book you need? Need to access a book …Continue reading →

Finding a thesis TAGS: information skills | literature review | reading online | researching a topic | Theses | thesis Visit us at the Pop Up Library on level 1 of the Main Library to get ideas and advice around theses. We’ll be there between 10am and noon on Thursday …Continue reading →

Paper Conservation – techniques and tricks Interested in learning more about conservation activity at the University? Come along to our Pop-Up Library Session at the Main Library tomorrow, Tuesday 30th at 10am and take the opportunity …Continue reading →

September Update The end of September is rapidly approaching and things are moving forward quickly with the LOCH Project. All three partners have been thinking about workflows and are starting to make …Continue reading →

Managing your digital footprint campaign launches today TAGS: campaign | online presence Today, 29 September 2014, the ‘managing your digital footprint’ campaign launches. The campaign is for all students (UG, PGT, online) and PhD researchers. It is being led by the Institute …Continue reading →

Use Searcher to find Library resources Smart searching with Searcher is bookending  the Pop up Library next week (see what I did there?). Get up early on Monday morning and come to the Main Library 10am …Continue reading →