‘Scotland’s last martyr’ : remembering James Renwick TAGS: Covenanters | seventeenth-century February was a suitable month to remember James Renwick  (15 February 1662 – 17 February 1688). Renwick was a graduate of Edinburgh University who accepted a call to the ministry within the independent Presbyterian …Continue reading →

Information Exchange with Osaka University This morning the University of Edinburgh’s Scholarly Communications Team was delighted to receive a delegation of guests who have travelled all the way from Osaka University in Japan.  Xin Yao …Continue reading →

Board Game Jam: Creating Openly-Licensed Board Games TAGS: board games | CRC Flickr | engagement | ILW 2016 | Nessie | OERs | OpenEdFeed At Innovative Learning Week this year we worked with students to develop board games using images from the CRC Flickr account as inspiration. Their challenge was to design a game …Continue reading →

Downtime Alert Wiley Online Library TAGS: databases | e-books | e-journals   Wiley Online Library will be unavailable on Saturday 27th February from 9am -2pm for essential maintenance. Wiley apologises for the inconvenience.

Service of James Roland Rider – in the Army Veterinary Corps (AVC) TAGS: Army Veterinary Corps (AVC) | James Roland Rider | medals | Royal (Dick) Veterinary College | veterinary surgeon ILLUSTRATING SOME OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDALS OF JAMES ROLAND RIDER James Roland Rider was the son of a veterinary surgeon. He was born in Beamish, near Durham, in N.E.England, on …Continue reading →

Some thoughts on the impact of Sci-Hub Sci-Hub has been getting a lot of attention recently – for those of you not up to date there are some really good pieces written here: What should we think …Continue reading →

Violins, horns, diamonds and a crocodile: SCOConnects with MIMEd TAGS: chamber | engagement | orchestra | public | scottish Violins, horns, diamonds and a crocodile: SCO Connects with MIMEd Reaching out and establishing ties to the community are important elements of the redevelopment of St Cecilia’s Hall. But how …Continue reading →

New MOOC! Research Data Management and Sharing [Guest post from Dr. Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill] The School of Information and Library Science and the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and …Continue reading →

Where there is tea, there is hope TAGS: happylibrary Everyone uses different things to relax. For around two hundred years, a popular way to take a break has been to have a cup of tea. In fact, this website suggests …Continue reading →

DataVault Project updates It’s been a while since we last posted a project update, so here is a round-up of recent progress: We are currently at the 11th International Digital Curation Conference in …Continue reading →