The Battle of Jutland – 100 years on TAGS: Battle of Jutland | German Fleet | Grand Fleet | High Seas Fleet | My boy Jack | Navy | Rudyard Kipling | Scapa Flow | Sea Warfare | World War I | WW1 This week sees the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, the largest and most important naval engagement of the First World War, and also a particularly Scottish event, as …Continue reading →

Oxford Bibliographies – additional modules purchased TAGS: American Literature | anthropology | Biblical Studies | British and Irish Literature | Criminology | databases | education | Hindu Studies | International Law | International Relations | Jewish Studies | linguistics | Oxford Bibliographies | Oxford University Press | psychology | Social Work | Sociology Following a successful trial at the end of last year, Oxford Bibliographies modules have been purchased in the following subject areas: American Literature Anthropology Biblical Studies British and Irish Literature …Continue reading →

Stuck with your dissertation literature search? Try this. TAGS: academic support librarian | literature searching Are you stuck with the literature search for your dissertation? Not finding as much on your topic as you hoped? Here are five suggestions to help you move forward.

Africa Wide Information – database trial TAGS: Africa Wide Information | agriculture | art | Biodiversity | Cultural history and heritage | databases | Development | Drama | Ebsco | Economics | health | history | Industry | Legal systems | Literature | Mining | music | Natural resources | Politics | religion | sport The Library has set up trial access to Africa Wide Information (Ebsco) until 30th June. Africa-Wide Information comprises an aggregation of 50 databases sourced from Africa, Europe and North America.  …Continue reading →

On trial: ImageQuest TAGS: images The Library has trial access – until the end of June – to ImageQuest, a unique collection of over 3,000,000 rights-cleared images from 59 of the world’s image houses.

New resource : Migration to New Worlds TAGS: anthropology | history | International Relations | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology The University of Edinburgh now has access to the online primary source collection, Migration to New Worlds, due to negotiations with JISC to provide free access to all UK higher and further …Continue reading →

Main Library Study Spaces project blog goes live During summer 2016 358 additional study spaces will be created in the Main Library.  This blog will be updated weekly with information about what is happening in the building. We will let …Continue reading →

Trials ending soon TAGS: Building Types Online | ClinicalKey | databases | e-books | e-journals | e-resources | Journal of Medical Insight | Literary Encyclopedia Last chance to try out the following e-resources and make purchase recommendations.  All can be accessed from the E-Resources Trial webpage: Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) – on trial until …Continue reading →

A Lengthy Challenge: Photographing the Mahabharata Recently I was asked to scope the digitisation of a beautiful scroll we have in our collection, Or.Ms 510, or better known as the Mahabharata. Gemma Scott, our former Digital …Continue reading →

Staff Scholarship Scheme funds Digital Preservation course Last year I completed the Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) course on the Management and Preservation of Digital Records. The module, which is one of several Masters-level CPD …Continue reading →