Google Scholar – who is referencing us? This is a guest blog post from Laura Keizer, one of our volunteers working in the Centre for Research Collections. Archives are delightful places. Working in such a place regularly …Continue reading →

Deposit Requirements Checklist Just wanted to share a bit of re-use and sharing activity with you. As a result of our ‘mini Pathfinder’ activities (working closely with 3 Schools) we were prompted to …Continue reading →

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online – additional titles TAGS: Dictionaries | e-books | Oxford University Press We have added 3 further dictionaries to our Oxford Language Dictionaries Online package. Arabic Chinese Russian The Chinese and Russian dictionaries are located on the original OLDO platform and a …Continue reading →

Managing open access (OA) workflows at the University of St Andrews: challenges and Pathfinder solutions We’re delighted to announce that the University of St Andrews has published this case study on the challenges and pain points regarding Open Access transactions and processes that arose out …Continue reading →

Music Online Premium Service – updated content TAGS: Alexander Street Press | music | Music Online Our Music Online Premium Service has been updated in the following collections: Classical Music Library  – CLMU: 808 albums, 11,701 tracks – This update includes titles from labels such as …Continue reading →

Weekend with the Gallimaufry: Edinburgh University images added to Metadata Games Tiltfactor and the University of Edinburgh, Library and University Collections are excited to announce the addition of over 2,500 images from the University of Edinburgh to the Metadata Games platform. This collection, …Continue reading →

#16days lecture at University of Edinburgh: further reading and research TAGS: Books | gender studies | journals | online resources | violence | Womens' Studies Today, Monday 8th December, the School of Social and Political Science, in partnership with Scottish Women’s Aid and PeaceWomen is holding a 16 Days Lecture. The lecture is being delivered by feminist researcher …Continue reading →

Christmas is coming at New College Library TAGS: Christmas | Funk | Hymnology | New College Edinburgh | Special Collections We’ve started getting ready for Christmas at New College Library! The Christmas tree is now up in the Funk Reading Room, and we have a display of Christmas carol books …Continue reading →

Untold Stories TAGS: Arthur Graeme West | John Abel | linocuts When deciding on what to do in relation to marking the centenary of the First World War, we opted to let our collections talk. By that we mean letting stories …Continue reading →

Talk, Talk Two talks in a week, one in London, one in Warsaw On Thursday last week I gave a presentation to the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photographs Conference in …Continue reading →