Archives Internship Opportunity We are delighted to be able to offer an 8-week, archive cataloguing project internship opportunity, working with the Wellcome Research Resource-funded archive project ‘Evergreen: Patrick Geddes and the Environment in …Continue reading →

Database trial – Shakespeare’s Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance TAGS: English Literature | Globe Theatre | Performance | Shakespeare | Theatre We have been offered a free trial of Shakespeare’s Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance published by Adam Matthew Digital. Please click here to access the trial. EASE login is …Continue reading →

Research Data Workshop Series 2019 Over the spring of 2019 the Research Data Service (RDS) is holding a series of workshops with the aim of gathering feedback and requirements from our researchers on a number …Continue reading →

World Newspaper Archive collections: on trial TAGS: African Studies | anthropology | databases | history | International Relations | Newspapers | online resources | Politics | primary sources | South Asian Studies | trials *The Library has now purchased access to African Newspapers, Series 1. See New! African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922* Thanks to a request from the UncoverEd project team, I’m pleased to …Continue reading →

Mathematical Sciences Publishers content via ProjectEuclid TAGS: e-journals | Mathematical Sciences Publishers | mathematics | MSP With the renewal of our Mathematical Sciences Publishers e-journal subscription, we now gain access to the following new titles: Innovations in incidence Geometry Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory …Continue reading →

Literature Online – problem update TAGS: databases | LION | Literature Online Back on 31st January I communicated to LLC colleagues about the faulty full-text links to LION’s ABELL records in DiscoverEd and a separate issue of the loss of 1,492 Penguin …Continue reading →

DwD2018 – Videos now on Media Hopper Dealing with Data 2018 was once again a great success in November last year with over 100 university staff and Post-Graduate students joining us to hear presentations on topics as …Continue reading →

Open Access update TAGS: open access | Plan S | RCUK The University of Edinburgh is a strong supporter of open access (OA), and in 2018, researchers at Edinburgh published over 7,000 peer reviewed research outputs, of which over 5,181 (74%) …Continue reading →

Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies TAGS: Chinese Studies | Taiwan | TRCCS On 22 November 2018, Director of L&UC Jeremy Upton and Director-general Tseng Shu-hsien of the National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) signed an agreement on establishing the Taiwan Resource Centre …Continue reading →

New E-Resources for Literature TAGS: articles | database | e-journals | JSTOR | Lives of Literature | Oxford Bibliographies - Literary and Critical Theory JSTOR’s Lives of Literature E-Journal Collection We have added the newly available “Lives of Literature” collection to our Jstor subscription.  This collection supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on …Continue reading →