Researching Africa? Explore new resources @UniofEdinburgh Here at the University of Edinburgh Library we’re developing our digital resources for African Studies. New this month is trial access to two new online resources for African Studies  – Africa …Continue reading →

The Blue Blanket Each week the Centre for Research Collections receives two deliveries of Special Collection items from the library annexe. Usually these items go back to the annexe when the reader is …Continue reading →

My first week as an intern and how it led to the destruction of a city Jamie started as an intern at the Centre for Research Collections last week, here he tells us about his first few days. I have just finished my first of eight …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Week 1 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Projects The Library Annexe will be joined for the next 8 weeks by Nik Slavov, who is working for the University as part of the Employ.Ed on Campus summer internship programme, …Continue reading →

Subject disciplines & download figures TAGS: downloads | open access One line summary Disciplines without dedicated subject repositories seem to provide the most popular items downloaded from our institutional service. The general trend Whilst looking at the top 99 most …Continue reading →

2014 download statistics from research.ed.ac.uk TAGS: downloads | open access As well as reporting on the number of open access uploads to our institutional repository we now have the facility to report on the other end of the spectrum – …Continue reading →

Maori Moko – Capturing the New Zealand Collection An update from the CRC Cataloguing Interns Beth and Fiona Moko or tatooing is a crucial part of Maori culture, reflected in many of their carvings and art work, and …Continue reading →

European Parliament elections 2014 – suggested resources for your research TAGS: academic support librarian | elections | European parliament | International Relations | online resources | Politics Voting will take place in the UK on Thursday 24th May for the European Parliament elections 2014. If you are thinking of voting or interested in doing research in this area …Continue reading →

Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library TAGS: open access | post-2014 REF “Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library” is an event being held in the Murray Library at the King’s Buildings to highlight some recent developments in Library services …Continue reading →

Library Placement Student Stefanie has been working with us for a few weeks on a placement as part of her PG course in Library and Information Studies at Robert Gordon University.  Here she …Continue reading →