Research Data Service achieves ISO 27001 accreditation for Data Safe Haven facility Following a five day on-site audit by Lloyd’s Register, the Information Security Management System (ISMS) which forms the basis for the Data Safe Haven facility for University of Edinburgh researchers …Continue reading →

Incunabula: Fables, foliage and a female Pope TAGS: Incunabula I was lucky enough to be involved in the Incunabula pilot project here in the Digital Imaging Unit. This project  helped to create a digitisation workflow for Incunabula collection items …Continue reading →

Beginning of a new ERA TAGS: open access | PhD We are pleased to announce that the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) has recently had a lot of work done to improve it’s looks, add new functionality and clean up some …Continue reading →

Dissertation Week Reflection TAGS: dissertation | Library It’s the final day of our very first Dissertation week at Edinburgh University Library. Here are some reflections and impressions of how it all went. What we did Our Dissertation …Continue reading →

Collaborating on data in a modern way Between mid-September and mid-October, the Research Data Support team hosted an international visitor. Dr Tamar Israeli, a librarian from Western Galilee College in Israel, spent four weeks in Edinburgh to increase her …Continue reading →

Top 5 tips if you’re stuck with your dissertation literature search TAGS: Bibliographic databases | Google Scholar | Library | research Are you stuck with the literature search for your dissertation or final year project? Not finding as much on your topic as you hoped? Here are 5 suggestions to help …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive Statistics: October 2019 TAGS: downloads | dspace | edinburgh research archive | ERA | October 2019 | Scholarly Communications

How using a reference manager can help you manage the references for your dissertation TAGS: bibliographic managers | Bibliographies | citation managers | citing | dissertation | Endnote | Library | references | Referencing | research Finding literature and gathering references from here, there and everywhere? Don’t want to get to a few days before hand in and realise you don’t have the full details of …Continue reading →

Centenary of Hamish Henderson TAGS: Hamish Henderson Yesterday a plaque was unveiled at the School of Scottish Studies Archives celebrating the centenary of Hamish Henderson, who was born in Blairgowrie on 11 November 1919. As a songwriter, …Continue reading →

Getting Beyond Google Scholar – great tools to help you find information for your dissertation TAGS: Bibliographic databases | dissertation | Google Scholar Are you planning on consulting Google Scholar to find literature for your dissertation? While it is very easy to use and can be a good place to start, particularly since …Continue reading →