A lot of scanning and a little context I am now coming to the end of my internship here in the Digital Imaging Unit. Over the past twelve weeks I have been responsible for digitising a large number …Continue reading →

August E-Book News TAGS: Business & Management | Dawsonera | e-books | EBL | Ebsco | Economics & Finance | education | Environmental Studies | history | International Relations & Development | Language & Linguistics | Literature | Media & Culture | Medicine | music | MyILibrary | Palgrave | Political Science | psychology | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Theatre & Performance | Wiley We have increased our e-book holdings with the following providers. Dawsonera We have added a further 44  titles to the Dawsonera platform.  A list of the new titles is available …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data Conference & RDM Service Launch – summary Information Services (IS) held a half-day conference in the Main Library on the subject of ‘Dealing with Data’ to coincide with the launch of the University of Edinburgh’s Research Data …Continue reading →

Metadata Fun and Games TAGS: crowdsourcing | images | metadata Earlier this week we ran a 1980s-inspired crowdsourcing ‘Metadata Game’ to enhance the description of items within our online image collection http://images.is.ed.ac.uk. The good folk of Library and University Collections …Continue reading →

Anatomy & Physiology Online – new e-resource TAGS: Anatomy | Anatomy & Physiology Online | database | Physiology | Primal   Anatomy & Physiology Online (Primal Pictures) has now been added to our A-Z list and will appear on our catalogue soon.  Anatomy & Physiology Online provides 20 interactive modules …Continue reading →

Past Politics : Pamphlets from an independent Scotland TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Funk | New College Library | Pamphlets | Politics | Scotland New College Library’s Pamphlets Collection of over 30,000 items captures the issues and debates from the seventeenth century onwards. Now on display in the New College Library entrance are just a …Continue reading →

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Archive TAGS: Archives | placement | trainee By Vanessa Johnson, conservation trainee and armchair physicist   Well, it’s been six weeks and I’ve survived! Although if archives could kill, the repository of world knowledge would go untapped …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh’s Yr 1 RCUK Compliance Report Complete TAGS: open access | RCUK The Scholarly Communications Team at Edinburgh University Library have just submitted their end-of-year-one report to RCUK.  This details how “compliant” we think we are with RCUK’s Open Access policy.  We …Continue reading →

SAGE Research Methods – new e-resource TAGS: Business | Communications | e-books | e-journal articles | education | Health Sciences | Political Science | psychology | reference works | Sage Research Methods | Sociology | videos We now subscribe to SAGE Research Methods.  This provides access to 700+ e-books, encyclopaedias, videos and journal articles.  SAGE Research Methods supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of …Continue reading →

Upcoming Dealing with Data Conference and RDM Service Launch The Edinburgh RDM team is a-buzz this week with preparations for the launch of our services, which will be carried out by the University’s Principal, Sir Timothy O’Shea in the …Continue reading →