New extended opening hours for New College Library in 2018 TAGS: New College Library | students | University of Edinburgh Students told us that they were finding it hard to access course readings held at New College Library because the library opening hours were more limited than other University Library …Continue reading →

The Regional Sections (Showa Era) of the Yomiuri Shimbun We have been offered a free trial of the Regional Sections (Showa Era, 昭和の地域版) of the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun which we subscribe to: The trial is valid until 8th …Continue reading →

On trial – Enhanced Electronic Grammars (EEG) Overview Specially designed for the needs of general linguists and typologists. Enables simultaneous complex searches across dozens of languages on hundreds of linguistic phenomena. Naturalistic examples illustrate each linguistic phenomenon, …Continue reading →

Daily Mail Historical Archive trial access TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Britain | cultural history | databases | history | Newspapers | Politics | primary source | social history *The Library has now purchased access to the Daily Mail Historical Archive (1896-2004). See New to the Library: Daily Mail Historical Archive.* I’m pleased to let you know that thanks …Continue reading →

10,385 theses down, 2,115 to go! TAGS: ERA | lung | PhD | Theses The Library’s project to digitise its entire collection of PhD and doctoral level theses is now entering its final phase, with the team on track to have all 17,000 volumes …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation 2018 TAGS: crowdsourcing | David Laing | rehousing Due to the success of last year’s ‘Crowdsourcing Conservation’ event, we are repeating the session on 19 and 20 February 2018! You can read more about last year’s event here. …Continue reading →

Spotlight on Gale Cengage digital primary sources TAGS: 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Asia | Books | Britain | correspondence | cultural history | databases | Europe | First World War | gender studies | global history | history | International Relations | Magazines | Manuscripts | medieval | Newspapers | Politics | primary source | social history | Spotlight on | United States | World War Two On Tuesday 30th January we’ll be holding a Discovery Day event in the Main Library where representatives from 3 publishers of digitised primary source collections and our very own Centre …Continue reading →

Nature Journals 2018 renewal TAGS: e-journals | ISSN 2397-334X | ISSN 2398-9629 | ISSN 2520-1158 | nature | Nature Catalysis | Nature Electronics | Nature Sustainability | Springer With the 2018 renewal of our Nature journals collection, we gain access to 3 new titles. Nature Catalysis – this new journal will bring together research from across all chemistry …Continue reading →