Dissertation Week Starts today #DissertationWeek is here! All this week we will be posting about the resources, services, workshops, training, events, etc., that are available at the Library and through other support teams at …Continue reading →

Lyell, Landscape and a Lorry We’ve done it. They’re finally here. Late last week I was lucky enough to go down to London and pick up the Lyell notebooks. The first step in gaining custody …Continue reading →

Conserving the Mackinnon Collection TAGS: Conservation Internship | Mackinnon collection | National Manuscript Conservation Trust This week, Claire Hutchison describes the start of her eight-week internship working to conserve the Mackinnon collection… I am four weeks into my internship at the CRC and absolutely loving …Continue reading →

They’re coming! The Lyell notebooks were collected from Sotheby’s in London yesterday and are now on their way north, expected to arrive in Edinburgh later today. Thankfully, they are in a secure …Continue reading →

Thank you for saving Lyell’s notebooks What an exciting prospect! The imminent arrival of Charles Lyell’s 294 notebooks to the University of Edinburgh Library is an occasion which will rightly be celebrated in Edinburgh. Students, staff …Continue reading →

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

On trial: Translations of the Peking Gazette Online TAGS: 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Asia | China | cultural history | databases | Newspapers | Politics | social history Thanks to a request from HCA staff the Library currently has trial access to Translations of the Peking Gazette Online from Brill. This is a comprehensive database of approximately 8,500 …Continue reading →

Trial access: The Guardian (ProQuest Recent Newspapers) TAGS: databases | media | Newspapers | primary sources | Social & Political Sciences | The Guardian I’m pleased to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to ProQuest Recent Newspapers: The Guardian, a new resource that gives us full-text and full digitised images …Continue reading →

Dissertation Fair 14th Nov TAGS: Archives | dissertation | Events Dissertation Week starts next week (11-15th Nov).  Today we focus on the Dissertation Fair on Thursday 14th Nov. The Fair highlights the range of resources and support available across the …Continue reading →

Halloween Highland Superstitions TAGS: halloween | UCF | University of Edinburgh The day of Halloween is upon us and here at the UCF we’re marking the occasion the only way we know how…with some seriously spooky books! A quick click through …Continue reading →