Getting referencing right: some useful resources TAGS: Citations | Endnote | good academic conduct | plagiarism | Social & Political Sciences | writing Working on your, possibly first, assignment and unsure how to do your references? Not know the difference between references and citations, endnotes and footnotes, Harvard or Chicago, etc? We’ve got …Continue reading →

Find treasure in New College Library TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | students We’re welcoming Divinity postgraduate students today for library treasure hunt activities to help them get to know New College Library. Students on the five postgraduate programmes have already had access to brief video …Continue reading →

‘W’ Collection provides a window into the world of eighteenth-century India TAGS: eighteenth-century | India | missions | New College Library | rare books One of the current Special Collections cataloguing projects at New College Library is the W4/5 section which includes works on ecclesiastical history and theology. In this collection we were pleased …Continue reading →

Steps towards equality in New College Library Class Photographs TAGS: Archives | gender | New College Edinburgh | photographs | twentieth-century | Women A guest post by Chloe Elder, New College Library Special Collections Digitisation intern From the depths of New College Library’s archives, a selection of class photographs from 1857 to 1930 has been …Continue reading →

Find peace in the Library TAGS: databases | International Relations | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences Finding peace in the library might mean finding a bit of quiet study space to you. If that’s the case, have a look at our guide to quiet and silent study …Continue reading →

Feedback questions from library welcome sessions TAGS: Endnote | feedback | Main Library | Mendeley | SPSS | students It was great to meet so many SPS postgraduate students in our Welcome Week workshops on Library Resources. We’ve now put the slides from these sessions up on our subject guide …Continue reading →

Digital video resources for Divinity TAGS: online | Religious Studies | video I’ve been following up from student feedback questions  following library induction sessions last week, and one really interesting one has been about library access to digital video recordings. The Library has recently purchased access …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Africa-Wide Information TAGS: African Studies | anthropology | databases | history | literature searching | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences | social anthropology I’m pleased to let you know that after a successful trial earlier this year the Library has now subscribed to Africa-Wide Information from EBSCOhost. Bringing together 50 databases sourced from Africa, …Continue reading →

Global journals for World Christianity TAGS: e-journals | Korea | missions | World Christianity The University of Edinburgh subscribes to a wide range of academic journals for the School of Divinity, but we’re also active in making the most of open access journals that …Continue reading →

New Digital Collections for Divinity in 2016 TAGS: Divinity | online | research We’ve been able to purchase several new digital collections to support the School of Divinity in 2016. All of the below are accessible via http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-a-z and via the Divinity subject …Continue reading →