Blood, Sweat and Photoshop – Preparations for the Degree Show TAGS: Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | Tiina Lilja Tiina Lilja is a final year Painting student at Edinburgh College of Art. Earlier this year, we acquired two of Tiina’s paintings for the University Art Collection as she was …Continue reading →

‘Riding High on a Spiral’ This Friday 25 April is ‘DNA Day’, an international celebration of the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, …Continue reading →

A Spring Time Natural History Maybe it is this lovely spring weather that has got me thinking about the wonderful books on Natural History in our Collections. Perhaps the most notable of which is  The …Continue reading →

Using an electronic lab notebook to deposit data into Edinburgh DataShare This is heads up about a ‘coming attraction’.  For the past several months a group at Research Space has been working with the DataShare team, including Robin Rice and George Hamilton, …Continue reading →

Trial access to BiblioRossica available TAGS: databases | e-books | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | trials BiblioRossica is a portal for academics and scholars that offers expertly selected collections devoted to the most relevant areas of modern Russian, Jewish, Eastern European and Eurasian Humanities. As an …Continue reading →

Digital Preservation Training Programme: London (7-9 April 2014) TAGS: Digital Preservation | Digital Preservation Training Programme | DPTP | OAIS | Open Archival Information System | Training | ULCC | University of London Computer Centre The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) recently ran its award-winning Digital Preservation Training Programme and I was fortunate enough to win a scholarship from the Digital Preservation Coalition to …Continue reading →

Index Religiosus Online now on trial TAGS: church history | databases | Divinity | online | Religious Studies | Theology & Ethics New on trial for University of Edinburgh users from 10 April to 11 May 2013 is the Index Religiosus Online. The Index Religiosus replaces the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique …Continue reading →

How can you improve your data management skills? A range of training courses on research data management (RDM) in the form of half-day courses and seminars have been created to help you with research data management issues, and …Continue reading →

Trial access to online Human Relations Area Files – World Cultures & Archaeology TAGS: anthropology | Archaeology | databases | Religious Studies | Social & Political Sciences Trial access is available until 24 May for University of Edinburgh users to eHRAF  – the online database of Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a non-profit research organization at Yale University. This database …Continue reading →

New Images & New Collection Publically Available Last week we were very pleased to make 864 new images available to the public. In the DIU we had recently completed a batch of nearly 1000 high quality images …Continue reading →