Inspiring Research – International Women’s Day 2014 TAGS: databases | gender studies | Library | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | Womens' Studies International Women’s Day (IWD) was celebrated on 8th March 2014. IWD has been celebrated for over 100 years and this year’s theme was Inspiring Change.  The Library subscribes to a …Continue reading →

A Passage to India: J.B.S. Haldane and the Journal of Genetics The C.H. Waddington collection contains a folder of correspondence with J.B.S. Haldane, who died 50 years ago this year, concerning the Journal of Genetics. The correspondence, which covers 1956 to …Continue reading →

Searcher Review 2014: Refine your search TAGS: Discovery | Limiters | Searcher | Searcher Review When you use Searcher, you’ll  usually return a large amount of results.  The limiters on the right of the screen make it easy for you to refine your search results. …Continue reading →

Gaelic week in Centre for Research Collections To celebrate the University’s first-ever Seachdain na Gàidhlig, or Gaelic Week, yesterday CRC displayed a number of treasures from the rare book and manuscript collections.  These included notebooks of folklorist …Continue reading →

New Books at New College Library – March (recommended by students) TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | students Student recommendations are in at New College Library! New in this month is Newman and his family, by Edward Short, available as an ebook via the library catalogue.   Also new is The …Continue reading →

Yesterday’s News? Find out more about historic newspapers online Do you want to read about history in the making? University of Edinburgh users have access to large collections of online newspaper archives, going back to the nineteenth century and beyond. …Continue reading →

We feel very Olympic today TAGS: Library Annexe | medals | Moray House | Scholarly Communications | Winter Olympics Our newest Library Assistant at the Library Annexe is Marko Mlakar, who joins us at Edinburgh from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Marko worked at the University of Edinburgh last year as an …Continue reading →

New books for SPS in Main Library – February TAGS: Books | Library | monographs | new | Social & Political Sciences Over 150 books from subject areas within SPS were added to the Library collections last month.  Here is just a small selection: Cybersecurity and cyberwar : what everyone needs to …Continue reading →

Have you heard of BoB? TAGS: databases | media | online resources It’s a bit like BBC iPlayer but can offer you much, much more. BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National is an online off-air recording and media archive service for UK higher …Continue reading →

New Data Curation Profiles: Edinburgh College of Art Jane Furness, Academic Support Librarian, Edinburgh College of Art, has contributed two new data curation profiles to the DIY RDM Training Kit for Librarians on the MANTRA website. One data …Continue reading →