Halloween Zombie Apocalypse (or how to access Library resources off campus) Halloween! Zombies! Candy! The Zombie Apocalypse is here and the real question is how do you survive both the zombies and your studies at the same time?  Stay calm … arm …Continue reading →

Open Access in the Next REF – Planning Update Over the last few weeks. the University of Edinburgh has seen a whirlwind of activity around the Open Access requirements for REF.  The Library’s Scholarly Communications Team attended an HSS College Research Committee, …Continue reading →

Library burnt to the ground! The Student, 25/10/84 TAGS: 1984 | The Student In this week’s digitised edition of The Student 1984: The Main Library (almost) burns to the ground The Campaign for Real Lager provides a guide to the best fizzy stuff …Continue reading →

Scotland: “still a long way to go”: The Student, 18/10/84 TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student The digitised 18 October 1984 edition of The Student is now available to read online. Catching the headlines this week: Secretary of State for Scotland George Younger describes the “massive …Continue reading →

Freshers, Festival, Football: The Student, 11 Oct 1984 TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student Hot off the press (and a day early!), the 11 October 1984 edition of The Student is now available to read online https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/thestudent/. Featuring the surprising success of Big Country, …Continue reading →

1984 – The Student’s perspective TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student Which iconic university building was described by a young student journalist in 1984 as a place “where students go to recover from hangovers”? What did students of the 1980s do …Continue reading →

SRUC: Another Institutional Repository TAGS: SDLC Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) is the latest Scottish Digital Library Consortium (SDLC) partner to use our services to host their institutional repository. The SRUC are based at King’s Buildings, but …Continue reading →

Zombie Apocalypse (or how to access Library resources off campus) It’s happened! The Zombie Apocalypse is here and the real question is how do you survive both the zombies and your studies at the same time?  Stay calm … arm yourself …Continue reading →

Metadata Fun and Games TAGS: crowdsourcing | images | metadata Earlier this week we ran a 1980s-inspired crowdsourcing ‘Metadata Game’ to enhance the description of items within our online image collection http://images.is.ed.ac.uk. The good folk of Library and University Collections …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 →