Smart Searching with Searcher You have your reading list, so now how do you find those books, e-books and e-journal articles? Don’t use Google, use Searcher! Searcher is the Library’s discovery service – think …Continue reading →

Art Exposed TAGS: Art Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | fine art | Museums | Naked | Nudes | pop up library A chance to experience rarely seen paintings and objects from the University’s Art Collection Recently we learned that the most searched for term on our brand new Art Collections website was ‘Male …Continue reading →

Next week at the Pop up Library Week 1: 15th September Monday (10-12pm and 2-4pm) Library Pop Introduction – What’s it all about? Watch the 1968 Library film Tuesday AM(10-12pm): Centre for Research Collections PM (2-4pm): Learn …Continue reading →

Library Pop – Get Library Smart! TAGS: information skills | Library Academic Support Come and meet members of the Library Academic Support team at the Pop up Library at 11am on Tuesday 8 September and find out more about the new Get Library Smart information skills resource. Newly …Continue reading →

Pop up Library launches with Library Director and 1968 film The Pop up Library launched this morning on the 1st floor of the Main Library with John Scally, the Director of Library and University Collections, joining us to help some …Continue reading →

Congressional Record – New Database TAGS: Business | Congressional record | current-events | databases | Economics | finance | government | insurance | International Relations | Medicine | Politics | ProQuest | science and technology | social issues We have purchased the Congressional Record database from ProQuest. ProQuest Congressional is a comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current …Continue reading →

Engineering Village – additional content TAGS: Compendex | databases | Elsevier | Engineering Village | Inspec We have increased the coverage available in our Compendex and Inspec databases which are hosted on the Engineering Village platform. Previously we only had access to the archive content of …Continue reading →

Aberdeen Connections #RBSCG14 TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | Pamphlets Last week I was privileged to attend the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections conference at the Sir Duncan Rice Library at Aberdeen University. I was able to take a …Continue reading →

August E-Book News TAGS: Business & Management | Dawsonera | e-books | EBL | Ebsco | Economics & Finance | education | Environmental Studies | history | International Relations & Development | Language & Linguistics | Literature | Media & Culture | Medicine | music | MyILibrary | Palgrave | Political Science | psychology | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Theatre & Performance | Wiley We have increased our e-book holdings with the following providers. Dawsonera We have added a further 44  titles to the Dawsonera platform.  A list of the new titles is available …Continue reading →

Anatomy & Physiology Online – new e-resource TAGS: Anatomy | Anatomy & Physiology Online | database | Physiology | Primal   Anatomy & Physiology Online (Primal Pictures) has now been added to our A-Z list and will appear on our catalogue soon.  Anatomy & Physiology Online provides 20 interactive modules …Continue reading →