Board Games at Break                                                   Playful Engagement by Madeleine Leisk …Continue reading →

Anniversary of Andrew Lang TAGS: Andrew Lang | Fairy Books | Leonora Blanche Alleyne | Scottish Literature March 31 marks the 175th anniversary of the birth of one of Scotland’s most prolific and versatile writers, Andrew Lang (1844-1912). The author or co-author of 249 volumes, Lang worked …Continue reading →

Open Access Scotland Group meeting On 27th March the Scholarly Communications Team at the University of Edinburgh were delighted to host the 6th regular meeting of the Open Access Scotland Group at the impressive Paterson’s …Continue reading →

What’s New in DiscoverEd – March 2019 DiscoverEd has some useful new features.  Read on for full details… 1. Lockable Filters It is now possible to lock a set of filters which you have applied to your …Continue reading →

A New Profession TAGS: Archives | Social Work | students From 1 October 1928 The Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training, established in 1918, was to be incorporated into the University. Students at the school had been entitled to …Continue reading →

Referencing Tutorial TAGS: Referencing | tutorial Cite Them Right online, which is in the Databases A-Z list, is a comprehensive guide to referencing almost anything you will come across in the course of your studies or …Continue reading →

Open Science Conference 2019 This week, I attended the International Open Science Conference in Berlin.  I attended this event last year, and found it so inspiring, I was keen to attend again this year.  …Continue reading →

Brill E-Journals – renewal update TAGS: Brill | e-journals | humanities and social sciences | International Law | sciences We have renewed our Brill e-journal deal and gain access to the following new titles. Subject Title ISSN Print ISSN Online 2019 Volume No. of issues Journal Web Page African …Continue reading →

Spotlight on: FBI Files TAGS: 20th century | America | Archives | Black history | Cold War | Communism | databases | history | Hollywood | McCarthy Era | McCarthyism | official documents | Politics | primary source | Radicalism | social history | Spotlight on | surveillance | United States This is part of an occasional series highlighting some of the digital resources available at the Library that will be of interest to students and staff in History, Classics and …Continue reading →

Crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland: Prisons This is the last post in our series on crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland, this time focusing on prisons. In the Statistical Accounts there is a …Continue reading →