The women behind New College Library TAGS: Archives | New College Library | nineteenth-century If you visit New College Library today, International Women’s Day, women might seem  hard to find amongst the portraits and busts of Thomas Chalmers and John Knox, and the shelves filled with …Continue reading →

Publishing Data Workflows [Guest post from Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre] In the first week of March the 7th Plenary session of the Research Data Alliance got underway in Tokyo. Plenary sessions are …Continue reading →

Digitisation: Eduardo Paolozzi Mosaics I have spent the past 6 weeks digitising mosaic fragments here in the DIU. Recently removed from Tottenham Court Road Tube Station, London, these mosaics were once part of a …Continue reading →

Trial access: Church Missionary Society Periodicals TAGS: databases | history | primary source The Library currently has trial access to the Church Missionary Society Periodicals from Adam Matthew Digital. This resource features publications from the Church Missionary Society, the Church of England Zenana Missionary …Continue reading →

New e-journal subscriptions TAGS: Ancient; Periodicals | Clothing Trade--Fashions|General Interest Periodicals--United States|Women's Interests | Dressmaking -- Periodicals; Fashion -- Periodicals; Needlework -- Periodicals | Glaucoma -- Periodicals; Eye Diseases -- Periodicals; Ophthalmology -- Periodicals | history The following new e-journal subscriptions have been added to DiscoverEd.  Click the cover image to access the e-journal directly. DeGruyter Platform – Journal of Ancient History Ovid Platform – Cornea …Continue reading →

Database trial – Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 We have been offered by Adam Matthew Publications a free trial of their new archive resource called Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1917-1981. The trial can be accessed …Continue reading →

Popping up again TAGS: happylibrary For the last few weeks, we have been running small events, designed to help students relax, in the Main Library Foyer. This article suggests that as little as six minutes …Continue reading →

IFLA Rare Books Section Conference Last week, we attended the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section Mid Term Meeting at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal in Lisbon. The event on Monday 22nd February was …Continue reading →

New e-journal backfile purchases TAGS: e-journals | Feminism & Psychology | Journal of Language and Social Psychology | Linguistic Review | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin We have purchased outright the archive content of the following e-journals.  These are available in DiscoverEd.  Click on the journal cover to access the title directly. DeGruyter Platform – The …Continue reading →

‘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 →