Anti-German manifestos, cigarettes vouchers and a little girl called Gill: 3 objects found in PhD theses TAGS: digitisation | found in books | history | loose photographs | PhD | Special Collections When I was studying for my Masters dissertation, I kept finding dried flowers in between the pages of books I was borrowing from the library. Now, we all know that …Continue reading →

New! House of Lords Parliamentary Papers TAGS: databases | history | new | online resources | Politics I’m pleased to let you know that the Library has purchased access to the House of Lords Parliamentary Papers (1800-1910) from ProQuest. This resource provides online access to previously unseen …Continue reading →

New E-Books from Cambridge Core TAGS: American Literature | Archaeology | art | astronomy | British History | Classical Studies | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Economics | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Film media mass communication | General Science | Geography | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | mathematics | media | Medicine | music | Philosophy | Physics | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Sociology | Statistics and Probability A further 253 e-books across most subject areas have been added to DiscoverEd.  Cambridge Core hosts books from a variety of publishers including Edinburgh University Press, Cambridge University Press, Boydell …Continue reading →

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing – new e-journal TAGS: e-journal | education | International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing | Online ISSN: 1740-2808 | Print ISSN: 1475-8962 We have a new e-journal subscription – International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing  International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM) is a multidisciplinary journal which aims to provide …Continue reading →

Automated item data extraction from old documents TAGS: automation | collections | image processing | library labs | OCR | Scottish Session Papers | technology Overview The Problem We have a collection of historic papers from the Scottish Court of Session. These are collected into cases and bound together in large volumes, with no catalogue …Continue reading →

Web of Science Upgrade to version 5.25 – Maintenance Sunday 25 June 2017 TAGS: database | Web of Knowledge | Web of Science Web of Science is undergoing scheduled maintenance on Sunday June 25, from 13.00 (BST) to Monday June 26, at 01.00 (BST). During this time, access to the service may be …Continue reading →

Conservation Student- Claire Hutchison TAGS: copper plate charter | highlands to hindustan | student placement | volunteer In this week’s blog, Claire, our first placement student of the summer describes her experience of working with us… My name is Claire and I am a conservation student from …Continue reading →

Unexpected delights at the UCF TAGS: Annexe | grass | Library Annexe | orchid | UCF | unexpected | University Collections Facility There is a large area of grass growing at the side of the University Collections Facility (née Library Annexe) which is usually just grass and moss with the odd daisy …Continue reading →

New Law E-Books Available TAGS: Bloomsbury | e-books | Hart | Law We have purchased the 2017 Hart Collection from Bloomsbury.  We have already added 61 titles to DiscoverEd and the remaining titles will be added as they are published.  A full …Continue reading →

Digital library of pre-modern Japanese works for open access TAGS: Japanese The National Institute of Japanese Literature (Kokubunken) has made their new新日本古典籍総合データベース/Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (tentative edition) freely available at: https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/　(Japanese interface) and  https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=en (English interface). The database, built out …Continue reading →