RDM Roadmap: Completion of Phase 1 The Research Data Management (RDM) Programme is well underway with planning and pilot activity (phase 0 of the RDM Roadmap), and initial roll-out of primary services (phase 1) completed. Services …Continue reading →

Photographists and the Grand Tour One of my daily problems in this job is being drawn into the objects we are digitising- it is always too tempting to start reading, and yesterday was one of …Continue reading →

New books for SPS – July TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | e-books | International Relations | new | Politics This month we’re featuring a small selection of new titles purchased to support the area of Politics and International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science. Democracy and …Continue reading →

New data curation profile in History Margaret Forrest, Academic Liaison Librarian for the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, is the latest to contribute a data curation profile. She has interviewed researcher Graham J. Black, who …Continue reading →

GeoRef and GeoScience World now available TAGS: databases | e-journals | GeoRef | GeoScienceWorld GeoRef and GeoScienceWorld have now been added to our General A-Z list and Geosciences A-Z list. GeoRef contains 3.4 million bibliographic records to the geosciences literature. Over 3,500 journals are …Continue reading →

Big Week Edinburgh has changed from being its normal – albeit busy and excited – summertime to in Festival mode. It is always a sudden change, and always very exciting. Both the …Continue reading →

Treasures of New College Library – Andrew Melville’s Bible TAGS: Bible | Divinity | New College Library | Presbyterian | Reformation | sixteenth-century One of the pleasures of being a librarian is the serendipity of discovering something special on the shelves whilst engaged in looking for something completely different. Whilst looking at materials about the Congregational …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 7 to 8 It is all over now! Or at least, very soon now. The 8 weeks flew past, my internship is nearly over and now all that is left is to take …Continue reading →

July E-Book News TAGS: e-books We have increased our e-book holdings with the following providers. 123Library We added a further 259 books to 123Library.  Lists of the new titles are here.  These are in the process …Continue reading →

New databases in July TAGS: ACO Music Data Analysis | Indext to Printed Music | Law Info China | PAIS International | PhilPapers | Routledge Performance Archive | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | TAIR Database | Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database We have added the following new databases to our general and subject A-Z lists this month, these will appear on the catalogue soon. ACO Music Data Analysis The ACO Music …Continue reading →