Welcome to the Main Library TAGS: Main Library | Statistics [wpcs] It’s the start of the new academic year, so we’d like to welcome back existing University of Edinburgh students, and introduce the library to our freshers.  You may have …Continue reading →

Issues for Research Software Preservation TAGS: Research Data | Software | Technical Twelve years ago I was working as a research assistant on an EPSRC funded project.  My primary role was to write software that allowed vehicle wiring to be analysed, and …Continue reading →

The Royal Medical Society publishes journal archives TAGS: journal hosting service | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | Res Medica | Royal Medical Society Supported by the Library’s Journal Hosting Service, Res Medica, the Journal of the Royal Medical Society, is publishing its archives online. Res Medica was founded in 1957 with the purpose …Continue reading →

Repository Fringe 2013 TAGS: Conferences | Development | OJS | open access | Tools Repository Fringe 2013 ran from July 31- August 2 in the Dugald Stewart Informatics Building. It was, yet again, a successful event, with around 85 attendees over the three days. …Continue reading →

(Open) Heaven is a Place on Earth – or How to Get to Utopia Without Really Trying TAGS: open access | open scholarship | Repoitory Fringe | repositories A guest post from Gareth J Johnson (@llordllama) on the Open Access and Academia  Round Table led by Gareth and Dominic Tate on Thursday 1st August. Gareth is a former repository manager and is currently …Continue reading →

Western General Hospital Library and the Annexe TAGS: Annexe | Library Annexe | Site Libraries | Western General Hospital The University of Edinburgh Library operates on a number of sites around the city. One of these is the Western General Hospital Library which holds part of the University’s medicine …Continue reading →

Open Journals Forum event report TAGS: journal hosting service | OJS | open access | Open Journal System   We were very pleased that the OJS Forum was so popular. The event was fully booked and we were delighted to welcome 50 delegates from around the UK to …Continue reading →

Open Access journal Concept publishes summer issue TAGS: journal hosting service | OJS | open access Concept, The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory has published its Summer 2013 issue. As well as a contribution from internationally respected and well published academic, Mike Newman there …Continue reading →

LUNA highlights available on Flickr TAGS: Development The CRC’s image collection is available through the LUNA image discovery tool, and can be accessed here. This is great, but there’s a need to get the collections well-publicised, through …Continue reading →

Online Collections Directory We have started to publish our online Collections Directory, starting with up to date descriptions of all the main Rare Book Collections. This is part of a major project to …Continue reading →