How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Archive TAGS: Archives | placement | trainee By Vanessa Johnson, conservation trainee and armchair physicist   Well, it’s been six weeks and I’ve survived! Although if archives could kill, the repository of world knowledge would go untapped …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh’s Yr 1 RCUK Compliance Report Complete TAGS: open access | RCUK The Scholarly Communications Team at Edinburgh University Library have just submitted their end-of-year-one report to RCUK.  This details how “compliant” we think we are with RCUK’s Open Access policy.  We …Continue reading →

Ecoinvent – new database TAGS: database | Ecoinvent | life cycle assessment | life cycle management Ecoinvent has been added to our A-Z list of databases and catalogue.  Ecoinvent database version 3.1 offers science-based, industrial, international life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle management (LCM) data …Continue reading →

New E-Book Collections – August TAGS: Access Engineering | Animal & veterinary science | Casalini | e-books | Engineering | Environmental & plant science | Food science | Hispanic | Italian | languages | Social science | Spanish | Torrossa We have recently purchased 3 new e-book collections.  The individual titles are in the process of being added to our catalogue but links to the collections are available from the …Continue reading →

SAE Technical Papers – new e-resource TAGS: databases | Engineering | SAE Digital Library | SAE Technical Papers | Technical Papers The Library now subscribes to the full collection of SAE Technical Papers available within the SAE Digital Library.  This provides access to over 90,000 technical papers from the Society of Automotive …Continue reading →

Accessible Archives – new database TAGS: Accessible Archives | databases | Newspapers Accessible Archives has been added to our A-Z list of databases – Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and …Continue reading →

GeoRef and GeoScience World now available TAGS: databases | e-journals | GeoRef | GeoScienceWorld GeoRef and GeoScienceWorld have now been added to our General A-Z list and Geosciences A-Z list. GeoRef contains 3.4 million bibliographic records to the geosciences literature. Over 3,500 journals are …Continue reading →

July E-Book News TAGS: e-books We have increased our e-book holdings with the following providers. 123Library We added a further 259 books to 123Library.  Lists of the new titles are here.  These are in the process …Continue reading →

New databases in July TAGS: ACO Music Data Analysis | Indext to Printed Music | Law Info China | PAIS International | PhilPapers | Routledge Performance Archive | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | TAIR Database | Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database We have added the following new databases to our general and subject A-Z lists this month, these will appear on the catalogue soon. ACO Music Data Analysis The ACO Music …Continue reading →

Pressing Matters TAGS: Special Collections As a conservator, you can often find some rather surprising and unexpected ephemera in archive and book collections. Take, for example, this folder from the University’s Aitken Collection. At first …Continue reading →