The Edinburgh Research Archive is 10 years old! TAGS: edinburgh research archive | open access It may seem strange but back in 2003 Open Access was a relatively new ‘thing’. Prior to 2003 many people still used the term Free Online Scholarship interchangeably with Open …Continue reading →

Mystery Children’s Book Illustrations TAGS: Archives | Edinburgh College of Art | M. B. Matheson We can’t find anything about the author/ illustrator M. B. Matheson from Lockharton Crescent, Edinburgh so far in staff and student lists. So we’re asking for your help. Do any …Continue reading →

From the Art Collection #75 TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collections | James McGlade Mastaba by James McGlade First published 3.10.2013

From the Art Collection #73 TAGS: Dorothy Black | Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collection | MGS Intern Twist by Dorothy Black Today’s From the Art Collection has been selected by our new Museums Galleries Scotland intern, Colette Bush. She writes: I started last week as the new …Continue reading →

From the Art Collections #43 TAGS: Charlotte Roseberry | ECA Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collection Extrude by Charlotte Roseberry It has been a very exciting few days for ECA Collections as, for the first time since the curatorial team started, works have been formally collected …Continue reading →

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words Drawing out the detail through visual interpretation   As you may already know, the University of Edinburgh, through Library and University Collections, is one …Continue reading →

Ethiopian Horses in the thesis collection These stunning watercolours of zebras in north-eastern Africa are a surprising find in the Library’s collections of early theses, held in Special Collections. They come from a thesis written by J. …Continue reading →

Peter Higgs and Hunting the Boson Peter Higgs – one of the University’s most famous living physicists – is the subject of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.  We have loaned one of …Continue reading →

Issues for Research Software Preservation TAGS: Research Data | Software | Technical Twelve years ago I was working as a research assistant on an EPSRC funded project.  My primary role was to write software that allowed vehicle wiring to be analysed, and …Continue reading →

The Royal Medical Society publishes journal archives TAGS: journal hosting service | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | Res Medica | Royal Medical Society Supported by the Library’s Journal Hosting Service, Res Medica, the Journal of the Royal Medical Society, is publishing its archives online. Res Medica was founded in 1957 with the purpose …Continue reading →