Trial access: Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) TAGS: Africa | Asia | databases | Europe | history | International Relations | middle east | Politics | primary source | South America | United States *The Library currently has access to Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) until 31st July 2024 as part of ProQuest Access 350.* And finally…We currently have trial access to the extensive …Continue reading →

Trial access: The NAACP Papers Collection TAGS: African-American history | Black history | databases | history | NAACP | primary source | United States *The Library now has access to the NAACP Papers Collections until 31st July 2024 as part of ProQuest Access 350.* Thanks to a request from a student in History, the …Continue reading →

Trial access: Global commodities TAGS: databases | history | International Relations | primary source The Library has a number of e-resources trials running at the moment and this includes trial access to the fascinating primary source database Global Commodities: Trade Exploration & Cultural Exchange …Continue reading →

Trial access: Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan TAGS: Afghanistan | databases | history | India | International Relations | Pakistan | Politics | primary source The Library has been given trial access to Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 from Archives Direct. This is an interesting collection of files from the Foreign …Continue reading →

Trial access: China, America and the Pacific TAGS: China | databases | history | International Relations | Manuscripts | Newspapers | Politics | primary source | United States The Library currently has trial access to the fantastic primary source database China, America and the Pacific: Trade & Cultural Exchange from Adam Matthew Digital. The database allows you to …Continue reading →

Trial access: Second World War primary sources TAGS: Berlin | correspondence | databases | history | International Relations | Newspapers | poland | Politics | primary source | World War Two *The Library now has access to these two resource. See Archives abound in Archives Unbound* I’m pleased to let you know that we currently have trial access to two online …Continue reading →

Images of early Islamic architecture: a record of destroyed antiquities in Iraq and Syria TAGS: Aleppo | antiquities under threat | Archaeology | destroyed antiquities | digitisation | Early Islamic Architecture | Edinburgh | ERA | Iraq | Mosul | Palmyra | PhD | Samarra | Shia | Syria | Theses   The aim of our PhD thesis digitisation project is to make available the unique research of the University of Edinburgh. This research has a greater significance when, within the …Continue reading →

Aerial Digimap – New E-Resource now available TAGS: Aerial Digimap | databases | Digimap | Edina We have expanded our Digimap holdings to include Aerial Digimap.  Aerial Digimap provides detailed aerial imagery data from Getmapping at various fixed scales. Most data is post-2011 with updates due …Continue reading →

Oxford Scholarship Online – new e-books added TAGS: biology | Business and Management | Classical Studies | e-books | Economics and Finance | history | Humanities | Law | linguistics | Literature | Medicine | music | Oxford Scholarship Online | Philosophy | Physics | Political Science | psychology | Public Health and Epidemiology | religion | sciences | Social Sciences | Social Work | Sociology We have added 110 new Oxford Scholarship Online e-books to DiscoverEd.  A title list can be found here.

Crowdsourcing Conservation TAGS: acid-free boxes | acid-free folders | crowdsourcing conservation | Laing | rehousing During the Festival of Creative Learning (20-24 February 2017), we will be hosting our first ever conservation crowdsourcing event! Over a two-day period (20-21 February), with the help of 30 participants, we aim …Continue reading →