Welcome to Library & University Collections Journals Club TAGS: e-books | Systematic review Were CPD and keeping up to date with professional literature on your New Year resolutions list? Come and join us in a new Library & University Collections Journal Club. We’ll …Continue reading →

We’re hiring! Information Services has a new vacancy for a Data Safe Haven Operations Assistant to work directly with the Data Safe Haven Manager in the Research Data Support Team in providing …Continue reading →

Trial access to Wiley Digital Archives TAGS: New York Academy of Sciences | Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | Royal College of Physicians | Wiley Digital Archives The Library is running a  trial until 5th April for three recently launched Wiley Digital Archives collections: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland New York Academy of Sciences …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 5 TAGS: Bank of sweets | Black Shuck | book illustration | carollers | childhood memories | Children's stories | Christmas | Edinburgh College of Art | Henry VIII | Hertfordshire | Hitchin | hobby horse | Illustration | krakow | Lajkonik | lany poniedzialek | masqueraders | Norfolk | Notgeld | Ogre of Smeeth | Pedlar of Swaffham | poland | rare books | Smigus-dyngus | Special Collections | Wet Monday Wet Monday, Henry VIII Falls in the River, and the Ogre of Smeeth, all funded through the Bank of Sweets. For our fifth visit to the ECA Illustration students’ Notgeld …Continue reading →

Highland Childhoods in the Old Statistical Accounts – Part 2 Guest blog post Here is the second part of the guest post by Helen Barton and Neil Bruce, MLitt students at the University of the Highlands and Islands, who have …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 4 TAGS: Abstract | Arctic Monkeys | book illustration | Busan | Edinburgh | Edinburgh College of Art | fork | Goff | Golf | Illustration | Jessica Ennis-Hill | Korea | lace | Leith | Notgeld | Nottingham | Scottish independence | Sean Bean | Sheffield | Special Collections Lace, Forks, The Arctic Monkeys and Golf This is the fourth in our series of posts based on the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, and the project by Edinburgh …Continue reading →

On trial: Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War TAGS: 20th century | Archives | Britain | cultural history | databases | Europe | First World War | history | Magazines | primary source | social history *The Library has access to Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War until 31st July 2024 as part of ProQuest Access 350.* Thanks to a request from …Continue reading →

LGBT Magazine Archive: Trial access TAGS: Bisexual | Britain | databases | Gay | gender studies | history | Lesbian | LGBT+ History Month | Magazines | media | online resources | Politics | primary sources | Queer studies | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology | Transgender | UK | United States | USA *The Library now has access to LGBT Magazine Archive until 31st July 2024. See New! LGBT Magazine Archive* I’m happy to let you know that just in time for LGBT …Continue reading →

DataVault is now live After an extended development period, we are pleased to report an addition to the University of Edinburgh Research Data Service, adding value to research data for both researchers and their funders: DataVault – funded primarily by the university’s Digital Research Services programme – has gone live this week. DataVault is a companion service to DataShare, which is an institutional trusted digital repository for the deposit of datasets and related outputs by university researchers, to openly license and share them on the Web. DataVault consists of an online interface connected to infrastructure in the university’s data centres and a cloud storage account. The DataVault project has conducted performance and user acceptance testing. It is currently able to accept individual deposits up to 2 TB each, which will be increased as development and testing continue alongside the live service. Each research project can store contents in a single vault made up of any number of deposits.

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected. 3 TAGS: book illustration | Edinburgh College of Art | etching | hippogriff | Illustration | Mars | Notgeld | rabbits | rare books | steampunk | Utopia Hippogriffs, Rabbits, Skyship Ports and Mars: Fantasy Worlds In our third visit to the student Notgeld and its connections with the exhibition, we move into the realms of fantasy. Some …Continue reading →