Emerald Insight – platform upgrade TAGS: e-journals | Emerald | platform update Emerald Insight have completed their platform upgrade work this week. Prompted by customer feedback, this has resulted in: Increased discoverability – thanks to enriched metadata and search engine optimization Improved …Continue reading →

Scottish Government Yearbooks now available online TAGS: media | online resources | Politics | Scottish referendum The Scottish Government Yearbooks, which were published by the University of Edinburgh’s ‘Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland’ between 1976 and 1992, are now freely available online for …Continue reading →

Peace Research Abstracts – new database TAGS: database | Ebsco | Peace Research Abstracts Peace Research Abstracts has recently been added to our database A-Z list and catalogue.  See the SPS Librarian blog for full details of this new database.

Travel back 500 years with rare Hebrew book from New College Library TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Dalman-Christie | Funk | Hebrew | Jewish | New College Library | rare books This early commentary on the Pentateuch, published in 1514 has travelled all the way to Latvia to be part of the exhibition “1514. The Book. 2014“. On display until April …Continue reading →

Ecoinvent – new database TAGS: database | Ecoinvent | life cycle assessment | life cycle management Ecoinvent has been added to our A-Z list of databases and catalogue.  Ecoinvent database version 3.1 offers science-based, industrial, international life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle management (LCM) data …Continue reading →

Pop up Library TAGS: pop up library We’re taking over and making over a currently empty area in the Main Library to create a space which gives teams from across Information Services the chance to engage with …Continue reading →

Top five library resources for Politics TAGS: Books | databases | e-books | e-journals | literature searching | media | online resources | Politics It’s one month to go until the Scottish Referendum and as Scotland is gearing up to decide its future and politics dominates the news we thought we’d give you a …Continue reading →

New E-Book Collections – August TAGS: Access Engineering | Animal & veterinary science | Casalini | e-books | Engineering | Environmental & plant science | Food science | Hispanic | Italian | languages | Social science | Spanish | Torrossa We have recently purchased 3 new e-book collections.  The individual titles are in the process of being added to our catalogue but links to the collections are available from the …Continue reading →

Art Collections go hi-res! The launch of the collections.ed.ac.uk public interface in May was a big success story in itself, but a bullet point below this was that it featured the first ever web …Continue reading →

Edinburgh supports trial data publication I recently read in a Sense about Science tweet that a lone student asked the Principal of the University of Edinburgh if it would join the AllTrials Campaign and it …Continue reading →