On trial: Chatham House Online Archive TAGS: 20th century | 21st century | Africa | Americas | Archives | Asia | Britain | databases | Europe | history | International Relations | middle east | official documents | Politics | primary source | russia Thanks to a request from staff in HCA the Library currently has trial access to Chatham House Online Archive from Gale. This digital resource contains the publications and archives of …Continue reading →

Lyell Rocks! Saving & Sharing the Charles Lyell Notebooks Sir Charles Lyell (1797 – 1875) was a Victorian Scottish geologist, recognised as one of the outstanding scientists in an age of remarkable thinkers. He’s best known as the author …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive Statistics: September 2019 TAGS: downloads | edinburgh research archive | September 2019

‘Not a Varsity Bird’: William Soutar’s Student Years TAGS: William Soutar 100 years ago this week, one of Scotland’s best-loved poets became a student of Edinburgh University. On 13 October 1919, the 21-year-old William Soutar added his name to the university’s …Continue reading →

Losing the Heid… or not The Parthenon Frieze at Edinburgh College of Art Running around the walls of the Sculpture Court of Edinburgh College Art is a cast of the Parthenon Frieze, which was first …Continue reading →

On trial: Bloomsbury Medieval Studies TAGS: Africa | Archaeology | Art History | Asia | Britain | cultural history | databases | e-books | Europe | history | Manuscripts | medieval | Medieval history | middle east | primary source I’m happy to let you know that we currently have trial access to Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, a new interdisciplinary digital resource with a global perspective which opens up the medieval …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Explorer Statistics: September 2019 TAGS: downloads | Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications | September 2019

Research Data Training – Semester 1 *UPDATE* – We have just added two new and exciting courses to our training schedule: Assessing Disclosure Risk in Quantitative Data (RDS006) Assessing Data Quality in Quantitative Data (RDS007) To …Continue reading →

XRF Internship at St Cecilia’s Hall TAGS: harpsichord | Ioannes Couchet | musical instruments | pigment identification | XRF In this week’s blog, we hear from Despoina Papazoglou who was an intern at St Celilia’s Hall from April to June 2019. Her internship focused on the material analysis of …Continue reading →

Announcing our new “Quick Guides” series Earlier this week we bid farewell to our intern for the past four weeks, Dr Tamar Israeli from the Western Galilee College Library. Tamar spent her time with us carrying …Continue reading →