What’s the Danger? TAGS: disaster | disaster response and recovery | fire | flood | salvage In this week’s blog Project Conservator, Katharine Richardson, discusses the challenges she has faced while reviewing the CRC’s Disaster Plan…. For the last two months I have been reviewing the …Continue reading →

A new themed double-issue of The Unfamiliar published online TAGS: journals | Library as publisher | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | publishing We are delighted to announce that an exciting new double-issue of the student-led open-access journal The Unfamiliar: an anthropological journal, Volume 5 (1-2), “Humans and the Environment / Walking Threads”, …Continue reading →

Shen Bao Digital Archive (1872-1949) TAGS: Chinese Newspaper | Shen Bao With the kind support from the Confucius Institute for Scotland, the Library has just purchased the complete digital archive of the Shen Bao Chinese newspaper (申報) which was published in Shanghai …Continue reading →

Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia publishes biographies of major and minor writers; scholarly descriptions of all interesting texts written by these authors, including those often neglected; and a variety of descriptive and …Continue reading →

NDL launched an English-language newsfeed on Twitter (NDLJP_en) TAGS: japan | National Diet Library The National Diet Library, Japan, launched an English-language newsfeed on Twitter with the account name NDLJP_en. Watch the newsfeed for the latest information in English on collections and events at the …Continue reading →

Choco-love TAGS: happylibrary All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)  Today we continued our campaign to spread …Continue reading →

New Nature Publishing Group e-journals available TAGS: e-journal | Energy | ISSN 2058-5276 | ISSN 2058-8437 | Materials | Microbiology | Nature publishing | Nature Reviews Materials The following 3 new e-journals have now been added to DiscoverEd. Nature Energy is interested in all aspects of energy, from its generation and storage, to its distribution and management, …Continue reading →

Thinking of donating books to New College Library? TAGS: alumni | Books | Divinity | donations | New College Library | students New College Library welcomes donations of recent publications that support the current teaching and research of the School of Divinity. And donations of books which record the intellectual output of the …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Migration to New Worlds TAGS: correspondence | databases | emigration | history | Immigration | journals | migration studies | primary source I’m happy to let you know that the Library now has access to the fascinating online resource Migration to New Worlds due to a collaboration between Jisc and the publishers …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: November 2015 – January 2016 TAGS: DataShare | DataVault | MOOC Data Seal of Approval have awarded DataShare Trusted Repository status; their assessment of our service can be read at https://assessment.datasealofapproval.org/assessment_175/seal/html/. In addition a major new release of DataShare was completed …Continue reading →