Global journals for World Christianity TAGS: e-journals | Korea | missions | World Christianity The University of Edinburgh subscribes to a wide range of academic journals for the School of Divinity, but we’re also active in making the most of open access journals that …Continue reading →

New Digital Collections for Divinity in 2016 TAGS: Divinity | online | research We’ve been able to purchase several new digital collections to support the School of Divinity in 2016. All of the below are accessible via http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-a-z and via the Divinity subject …Continue reading →

Desk Top Power Modules Part of the refurbishment works to create new study areas will also involve an upgrade to the existing desk top power modules on a number of new and existing desks.  …Continue reading →

Around the World in 90 years- the Story of Historic Leith Improvement Scheme Photographs When Fraser Parkinson first contacted us about the collection of historic photographs of Leith that he had been entrusted with, my colleagues and I at the Centre for Research Collections …Continue reading →

Data Carpentry & Software Carpentry workshops The Research Data Service hosted back to back 2-day workshops in the Main Library this week, run by the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) to train University of Edinburgh researchers in …Continue reading →

A Passage to India – Part 2 TAGS: adhesive removal | gellan gel | indian paintings | rigid gel | tasawir In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator, Emily Hick, describes the next stage of conserving a collection of Indian paintings, and explains how she used a rigid gel to remove …Continue reading →

Dawsonera downtime TAGS: Dawsonera | downtime | e-books E-Books on the Dawsonera website will be unavailable for up to half an hour between 7:30am and 8:00am on Thursday 25th August 2016 while they undertake essential work on the …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: February to April 2016 TAGS: DataShare | DataVault | MOOC The membership of the Research Data Service Virtual Team across four divisions of IS was confirmed and met for the first time (to replace the former action group meetings) on …Continue reading →

Main Library Summer Improvements 2016 – Update 18th August Work is continuing in the Main Library on a programme of works to bring significant improvements for library users through increasing the number of study spaces by 350 and providing …Continue reading →

More DataVault presentations It’s been a busy summer for the DataVault, with further presentations taking place. First up was a short trip to Dublin to the Open Repositories 2016 conference in June. The …Continue reading →