My first week as an intern and how it led to the destruction of a city Jamie started as an intern at the Centre for Research Collections last week, here he tells us about his first few days. I have just finished my first of eight …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Week 1 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Projects The Library Annexe will be joined for the next 8 weeks by Nik Slavov, who is working for the University as part of the Employ.Ed on Campus summer internship programme, …Continue reading →

Data journals – an open data story Here at the Data Library we have been thinking about how we can encourage our researchers who deposit their research data in DataShare to also submit these for peer review. …Continue reading →

The Harvard Open Access Initiatives On Tuesday 10th June we are privileged to have a visit from Stuart Shieber, Faculty Director for the Office of Scholarly Communications, Harvard University.   Stuart has kindly agreed to give …Continue reading →

The Pencil of Nature TAGS: Library | photography | William Henry Fox Talbot Two of my favourite photographs in the Centre for Research Collections come from The University of Edinburghs copy of William Henry Fox Talbot’s “The Pencil of Nature“. Shelfmark Df.3.85 .The …Continue reading →

Better together or better apart? Some useful resources on the Scottish referendum. TAGS: academic support librarian | databases | online resources | Politics | Scottish referendum On the 18th September 2014 Scotland will vote yes or no to independence. There are a wealth of online resources available that can help with your research or help to …Continue reading →

Digital Scholarship Day of Ideas: Data The theme of this year’s ‘Digital Scholarship Day of Ideas’ (14th May) focused on ‘data’ and what data is for the humanities and social sciences. This post summarises the presentation …Continue reading →

Whale hunting: New documentary for broadcast on BBC Four TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | Salvesen & Co. | Salvesen Archive The story of Britain’s whale hunters is to be broadcast across the UK in a new 2-part documentary on BBC Four on Monday 9 June and Monday 16 June. The …Continue reading →

Science: Media Friendly? TAGS: BBC | broadcast | debate | dolly the sheep | greenwood | media | press | public engagement | radio | scientists | social impact | television | waddington Nowadays we are more than accustomed to scientists appearing on television and radio to talk about their research or engage in debates about the social, political and ethical implications of …Continue reading →

Collections.ed.ac.uk Launched This week, we launched a new service called Collections.ed.ac.uk, which you (staff, students and the wider public) can use to search the University’s rare and unique collections. Four collections are …Continue reading →