New E-books available TAGS: e-books | Wiley We have added 120 more e-books from Wiley across most subject areas.  See the title list here. Our current subscription to Wiley e-books means that we automatically gain access to …Continue reading →

E-Resource trials ending soon TAGS: databases | e-books | Humanities | Law | trials Less than 1 week left to try out some potential new e-resources. Elgar Advanced Introductions to Law Introductions to major fields in Law. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they …Continue reading →

Bombs, Bins and Burglary: The Miraculous Survival of the Margaret Morris Collection A fortnight ago I paid my first visit to the Fergusson Gallery, Perth, to begin assessing and listing the Margaret Morris Collection which is housed there. This is the first …Continue reading →

Martin Luther in his own words #Reformation500 TAGS: church history | Divinity | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century Today the School of Divinity will mark 500 years since Martin Luther nailed the Ninety Five Theses to the door of Wittemberg Church with a public lecture from Durham University’s …Continue reading →

3 things we can do to make open access better Open access is being pulled and pushed in different directions by groups who each have their own intentions and motivations: Research funders want to maximize their investment and – by …Continue reading →

E-Resource trials ending tomorrow TAGS: Law | Newspaper Archive | trials Last chance to try out some potential new e-resources – our iLaw Maritime and Illustrated London News trials both end tomorrow. iLaw Maritime covers publications, forms & documents, legislation, practice …Continue reading →

Nikkei Asian Review through Factiva and Nexis UK Some colleagues and students have asked about online access to Nikkei Asian Review, a weekly magazine in English published by Japan’s leading business and information company which provides timely corporate, …Continue reading →

Copernicus x Smith The University’s Iconics Collection holds some of the institution’s most valued and treasured items, and the recent push for more digitisation of the University of Edinburgh collections has meant that …Continue reading →

Academic-led publishing TAGS: open access Our last #openaccess week blog post finished with the observation that publishers are increasingly becoming in control of scholarly infrastructure, and that it is now more important than ever for …Continue reading →

On trial: primary source databases TAGS: 16th century | 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Britain | correspondence | cultural history | databases | history | history of book | Magazines | Manuscripts | poetry | primary source | social history | Theatre I’m happy to let you know that Adam Matthew Digital are very kindly giving us trial access to 7 of their fabulous primary source databases. This gives you a unique …Continue reading →