Bloomsbury E-Books added to DiscoverEd TAGS: anthropology | Biblical Studies | Bloomsbury | Churchill | e-books | International Relations | Politics | Religious Studies All of our recent Bloomsbury e-book collection purchases have now been added to DiscoverEd.  See the full list here. Collections purchased include:  Anthropology Archive 1993-2013, Anthropology 2014, Biblical Studies 2013, …Continue reading →

From Devon to Bombay: F.A.E. Crew’s war Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886-1973) had a distinguished career at the University of Edinburgh as director of the Institute of Animal Genetics and Buchanan Professor of Animal Genetics, and later …Continue reading →

Divinity Approaches to Research – Top tips for finding Bibles TAGS: Bible | Divinity | New College Library | postgraduate | students   The University of Edinburgh Library holds extensive and rich collections of Bibles. At New College Library, you will find of early Bibles from the Scottish Reformation, Bibles in languages from all over …Continue reading →

Divinity Approaches to Research – Library Resources for Islam TAGS: Divinity | islam | New College Library | postgraduate | students View of pages from the Qur’an of Tipu Sultan. Shows text in the centre, surrounded by gold and blue illumination. Tipu Sultan was the Muslim ruler of Southern India’s Mysore …Continue reading →

Centre for Research Collections Pop-up at the LLC School 1-3pm, Tuesday 29 September Languages and Humanities Centre 50 George Square Staff from the CRC will be at the Language and Humanities Centre of the LLC School, 50 George Square, …Continue reading →

Access issue – Springer website TAGS: Access Issues | Authentication | e-books | e-journals | IP Access | Shibboleth | Springer As reported earlier on twitter, there are access issues to Springer content – both e-books and e-journals.  The publishers have now restored Shibboleth authentication which means all users can now …Continue reading →

Cambridge University Press E-Book Additions – September TAGS: American History | American Literature | Archaeology | art | British History | Classical Studies | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Economics | education | Engineering | English Literature | European History | General Science | Geography | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | mathematics | Medicine | Philosophy | Physics | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Sociology | Statistics and Probability A further 130 monographs and 32 coursebooks have been made available in September.  A list of the additions can be found at the links below.  These are now available via …Continue reading →

Sage Knowledge E-Books – New Additions TAGS: e-books | education | psychology | Sage | Sage Knowledge We have added a further 147 Sage e-books to DiscoverEd.  Subject areas primarily Education and Psychology. See the new additions list here. Further info Further information about our e-books is …Continue reading →

Palgrave Connect E-Books – New Additions TAGS: Business & Management | e-books | Economics & Finance | education | history | International Relations & Development | Language & Linguistics | Literature | Media & Culture | Palgrave | Palgrave Connect | Political Science Collection | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Theatre & Performance Over 600 new e-books from Palgrave have been added to DiscoverEd.  Subject areas include:  Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Education, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Media & Culture, Political …Continue reading →

Open Book Publishers Library Membership TAGS: e-books | Humanities | open access | Social Sciences The Library has recently taken out membership to Open Book Publishers (OBP).  OBP are an open access publisher, primarily for humanities and social sciences but now expanding into other disciplines.  …Continue reading →