Trials – New E-Resources on Trial TAGS: Access Latin America | American Antiquarian Society | Annual Review of Linguistics | Annual Reviews | Arts | Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange | Behavioral | Caribbean Newspapers | database | E-book | e-journal | education | Encyclopedia of Political Thought | Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBIS) Daily Reports | Gale Cengage | Humanities | Latin American Newspaper | Newsbank | Physical and Environmental Sciences | Readex | Social | Wiley These new trials are now available… Access Latin America from Newsbank is on trial until 27th March.  Access Latin America provides indepth coverage of local and regional issues and events …Continue reading →

Europeana Tech Conference, Paris, Feb 2015 TAGS: Europeana | LibraryLabs | metadata The Europeana Tech conference took place in Paris on February 12-13, 2015. A fascinating event, developers and strategists from institutions all over Europe got the chance to exchange ideas about …Continue reading →

Clean up your sax TAGS: Archives | conservation I am a Preventive Conservation Masters student at Northumbria University, and as part of my course, I am fortunate to be able to put theory into practice for six weeks …Continue reading →

St Cecilia’s Hall in the News! TAGS: Grant | Project | St Cecilia's Hall The St Cecilia’s Hall Project is in the news, thanks to our grant of £100,000 from Edinburgh World Heritage! See online story here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/facelift-for-concert-hall-with-no-equal-in-paris-or-london.119359358

Find out more about fair trade TAGS: Books | databases | e-books | media | Newspapers | online resources This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight runs from 23 February to 8 March 2015 and is celebrating the power of everyday choices by telling the other half of a product’s story – …Continue reading →

Trial access to The Encyclopedia of Political Thought TAGS: e-books | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences The Library has set up trial access to the online version of The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. You can access this via the E-resources trials page at www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-trials The Encyclopedia of Political …Continue reading →

Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service TAGS: Archaeology | Archaeopress | e-books Following a successful trial last year we now subscribe to the Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service. This is a package of e-books in archaeology.   Around 10-15 new books are added …Continue reading →

Tag It, Find It!: Pop Up Library on tour TAGS: art | metadata | pop up library | sweets | Tagging Last week, Pop Up Library packed its bags for a three day tour of the university campus, bringing paintings from the art collection, our metadata tagging game and a 5kg …Continue reading →

Downtime Alert – E-Journals TAGS: Access alert | downtime | e-journals | ejnls | SFX At 10pm tonight, our e-journals will become unavailable for about 1 hour via the e-journal A-Z links, Searcher and the catalogue.  This maintenance work is expected to resolve recent instability …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: Nov – Dec 2014 Key results from the regular RDM Programme Progress Reports presented to both RDM Steering Committee and Action Group. Full RDM progress Reports can be viewed on the RDM programme Wiki …Continue reading →