Scopus maintenance alert 21st Sept TAGS: database | maintenance | Scopus On September 21st from 4pm – 6pm Scopus will undergo maintenance. During this period, the Scopus database will be available in read-only mode, which means that users will be able …Continue reading →

Feedback questions from library welcome sessions TAGS: Endnote | feedback | Main Library | Mendeley | SPSS | students It was great to meet so many SPS postgraduate students in our Welcome Week workshops on Library Resources. We’ve now put the slides from these sessions up on our subject guide …Continue reading →

CABI E-Books now available TAGS: agriculture | Animal Production and Husbandry | CABI publishing | e-books | Human Health and Nutrition | Veterinary medicine We have purchased 325 e-books from CABI publishing. Titles have been picked from the following subject areas; Agriculture subject collection, Animal Production and Husbandry collection, Human Health and Nutrition collection …Continue reading →

Oxford Scholarship Online – new e-books TAGS: American Literature | biology | Business and Management | Classical Studies | e-books | Economics and Finance | history | Law | linguistics | music | Oxford Scholarship Online | Philosophy | Physics | Political Science | psychology | Public Health and Epidemiology | religion | Social Work | Sociology A further 197 e-books across a variety of subject disciplines have been added to Oxford Scholarship Online and these are now  available in DiscoverEd. A list of the new additions …Continue reading →

The women behind the words: thanking the typists of the twentieth century Digitising this thesis collection is an act of time travel. We began in May at the early twentieth century and are currently working through the seventies. We have enjoyed images …Continue reading →

Sustainable Organization Library – more content added TAGS: DōShorts | e-books | e-journals | Greenleaf | Journal of Sustainable Mobility | Sustainability | Sustainable Organization Library We have updated our holdings to Sustainable Organization Library.  New e-journal and e-book content has been added to DiscoverEd. New e-journal The Journal of Sustainable Mobility (ISSN 2053-2350) is a …Continue reading →

Digital video resources for Divinity TAGS: online | Religious Studies | video I’ve been following up from student feedback questions  following library induction sessions last week, and one really interesting one has been about library access to digital video recordings. The Library has recently purchased access …Continue reading →

Ada Lovelace Day 2016: Wikipedia editathon TAGS: ada lovelace | STEM | wikipedia | Women On Tuesday, 11th October 2016 the University’s Main Library will once again be running a Wikipedia editathon to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2016. This is an international celebration of the achievements …Continue reading →

Cochrane Clinical Answers – new e-resource TAGS: Cochrane Clinical Answers | database | Medicine | Nursing | Wiley We have recently added Cochrane Clinical Answers to our A-Z list and DiscoverEd. Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane …Continue reading →

Open Access Journals for Religious Studies TAGS: ejournals | Religious Studies We’ve recently added some new open access journals for Religious Studies to DiscoverEd, aiming to make what’s freely available online as discoverable as possible for University of Edinburgh students. These …Continue reading →