Responding to a National Crisis: Social Work at Times of Great Need (illustrated with images from the University’s art collection) We find ourselves living through remarkable times. A global pandemic has taken hold and life has changed completely in just a few …Continue reading →

Research data management in a time of quarantine Covid-19 has shaken up our world, and disrupted University life as we know it. But in terms of a silver lining, it has provided opportunities for open data / open …Continue reading →

Health in Motion: I move, therefore I am TAGS: Archives | Body Language | collections | dance | Margaret Morris | Margaret Morris Movement | mental health | Mental well-being | movement | physical activity | Physical Education As many of us face the challenge of managing our mental and physical well-being during the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we look to the doyenne of movement and pioneer of …Continue reading →

This Is (Almost) The End A brief update on the final stages of our Wellcome Research-Resource funded project, read on to find out what to expect next…. Our Wellcome Research-Resource funded project ‘Evergreen: Patrick Geddes …Continue reading →

The Japanese Garden Journey with us to 1908 as Patrick Geddes and Frank Mears’ look to Japan and the East for urban planning inspiration.  Archives volunteer and MSc Library and Information Studies student, …Continue reading →

A visit from the data jungle: My internship in research data management This is a guest post from Dr. Tamar Israeli, who completed a work/study internship with the Research Data Support team last Autumn. A link to her report is available below. …Continue reading →

‘Norsk Hvalfangst-Tidende’ – a long run of the print periodical in the Salvesen Archive THE SALVESEN ARCHIVE CONTAINS THE NORWEGIAN WHALING GAZETTE, FROM 1917 TO 1968 – A WEALTH OF RESEARCH ON WHALES AND WHALING FROM THE DECADES PRIOR TO THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION …Continue reading →

New: DOI minting for PhD theses We are pleased to announce that from January 2020 all new PhD theses submitted to the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The Library …Continue reading →

High Rises and Lows: Emotions in an Edinburgh Suburb TAGS: community | Edinburgh | emotion | family | Housing | neighbours In 1957 three professionals, a GP, a minister and a headteacher, approached the University of Edinburgh’s Social Science Research Centre requesting a study of the North Edinburgh communities in which …Continue reading →

DataVault user roles let you share access to archived data The Edinburgh DataVault is a secure long-term retention solution for research data. Thanks to the hard work of our software developers in the Digital Library and EDINA, the Edinburgh DataVault …Continue reading →