ProQuest’s ‘Black Newspapers’ on trial TAGS: African Studies | databases | history | International Relations | Newspapers | online resources | Politics | Sociology *The Library has now purchased the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), one of the titles in the Black Newspaper Collection. See New to the Library: New York Amsterdam News* The …Continue reading →

Reading the Reformation : John Fisher TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century | Theology & Ethics New College Library’s collections provide a rich resource for and about Reformation theology and its readers. One of these readers was John Fisher  [St John Fisher] (c.1469–1535), bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr …Continue reading →

Trial access: Church Missionary Society Periodicals Module 2 TAGS: correspondence | databases | history | journals | Letters | Magazines | Manuscripts | periodicals | primary source *The Library has since purchased this resource and it can be accessed, along with Church Missionary Society Periodicals, module 1, via the Primary Sources database list or Databases A-Z list.* …Continue reading →

Reading the Reformation : Luther TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century | Theology & Ethics On 14, 15 and 16 February 2017, the Cunningham Lectures at New College will mark the 500th Luther anniversary, with lectures by Professor Kaufmann covering Europe, Reformation and Luther. New College …Continue reading →

Aerial Digimap data: The mapping service where it’s always sunny TAGS: Digimap | Mapping The latest Digimap addition is aerial photo images, covering the whole of Great Britain to 25cm precision. The University of Edinburgh has just subscribed to Aerial Digimap, so the great …Continue reading →

II: ‘The Times’ History and Encyclopaedia of the War – the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolutions 1917, and of the declaration of Finnish independence TAGS: The Times History and Encyclopædia of the War ‘…AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CONTEST NOW IN PROGRESS…’ On the approach of the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolutions, this second look at The Times History and Encyclopædia of …Continue reading →

Future Teacher TAGS: learning and teaching Future Teacher is a themed programme that focuses on the big issues and the range of new technologies that will have an impact on teaching over the next few years.   …Continue reading →

Trial access: primary source resources from Gale Cengage TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | databases | history | Literature | primary source *The Library now has access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online: The Corvey Collection.* Until the 27th February the Library has trial access to 4 extensive primary source databases from Gale …Continue reading →

#1lib1ref at the University of Edinburgh TAGS: #1lib1ref | ISG | wikimedia | wikipedia On Friday 20 January, staff from across Information Services took part in Wikimedia’s #1lib1ref campaign, adding 63 edits to the encyclopaedia throughout the day – almost double last year’s total! …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: May to July 2016 TAGS: Awareness raising and advocacy | DataShare | DataStore | DataVault | MOOC | News and publications | RDM services | Roadmap progress | Tagged DataShare The following key results were highlighted in the RDM Programme Progress Report: There were 42 new users and 69 data management plans created with DMPOnline. An additional 1.5PB has been …Continue reading →