Trials – New E-Resources on trial TAGS: Acland’s video atlas of human anatomy | Church Missionary Society Periodicals Collection | Enhanced Electronic Grammars - An Advanced Research Tool for Linguistics | Japan Times Archive 1897-2013 | Political Science Complete | Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit | SIPRI Yearbook Online Acland’s video atlas of human anatomy – until 14th April This newer version of Acland’s video atlas provides an online platform for accessing more than 300 narrated videos of real …Continue reading →

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1 TAGS: Archives | drawings | dream drawings | dreams | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn The composition of the Fairbairn Archive is rich, with a wide variety of materials from manuscripts to typescripts and photographs to correspondence. However, amongst the most striking of all the documents are a collection of dream drawings, …Continue reading →

Unwrapping the Martin Hall Collection TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | medieval | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century This January we began cataloguing work on the MR Collection from New College Library’s Special Collections. This sequence contains much early and rare material, and carries the shelfmark MR because at …Continue reading →

March Update from LOCH TAGS: open access I realise we’ve been a bit quiet recently, so it is high time we posted an update to let you know what we have been doing over the last few months! …Continue reading →

William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: an archivist’s perspective TAGS: Archives | Psychoanalysis | Wellcome Trust | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn The papers of Edinburgh-based psychoanalyst, William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (more usually known simply as Ronald) are held here, in the National Library of Scotland. I’m Karla, an archivist, and since January 2015 …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive : a new look TAGS: dspace | edinburgh research archive | mirage 2 | repository We are pleased to announce a new look and feel to the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). Over the past few weeks our Library Digital Development team have been busy upgrading …Continue reading →

New Open Access Journal of Undergraduate Research TAGS: journal hosting service | Library as publisher | OJS | open access | publishing The first issue of a new open access journal dedicated to undergraduate research in the area of sociolinguistic variation has been published on the library-supported journal hosting service. The journal, …Continue reading →

Trials – New E-Resources on Trial TAGS: Access Latin America | American Antiquarian Society | Annual Review of Linguistics | Annual Reviews | Arts | Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange | Behavioral | Caribbean Newspapers | database | E-book | e-journal | education | Encyclopedia of Political Thought | Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBIS) Daily Reports | Gale Cengage | Humanities | Latin American Newspaper | Newsbank | Physical and Environmental Sciences | Readex | Social | Wiley These new trials are now available… Access Latin America from Newsbank is on trial until 27th March.  Access Latin America provides indepth coverage of local and regional issues and events …Continue reading →

Find out more about fair trade TAGS: Books | databases | e-books | media | Newspapers | online resources This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight runs from 23 February to 8 March 2015 and is celebrating the power of everyday choices by telling the other half of a product’s story – …Continue reading →

Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service TAGS: Archaeology | Archaeopress | e-books Following a successful trial last year we now subscribe to the Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service. This is a package of e-books in archaeology.   Around 10-15 new books are added …Continue reading →