The Myth of Robert Burns TAGS: Archives | Burns Night | Church of Scotland | Robert Burns | Tom Allan It was some months ago that among the many sermons and talks given by Rev Tom Allan (1916-1965), one entitled ‘The Myth of Robert Burns’ caught my eye (ref. AA6.2.18). …Continue reading →

Scottish Gymnastics collection catalogued As well as cataloguing the Margaret Morris collection in Perth, I have also been working with the records of Scottish Gymnastics, which were donated to the University of Edinburgh last …Continue reading →

National Library of Scotland Research Fair This event will be open to all – researchers, postgraduate students, librarians, archivists and research managers – will take place on Wednesday, 7th February 2018 from 13.00 – 16.00 in …Continue reading →

On trial – Enhanced Electronic Grammars (EEG) Overview Specially designed for the needs of general linguists and typologists. Enables simultaneous complex searches across dozens of languages on hundreds of linguistic phenomena. Naturalistic examples illustrate each linguistic phenomenon, …Continue reading →

10,385 theses down, 2,115 to go! TAGS: ERA | lung | PhD | Theses The Library’s project to digitise its entire collection of PhD and doctoral level theses is now entering its final phase, with the team on track to have all 17,000 volumes …Continue reading →

Museums sites go IIIF The main portal into Library and University Collections’ Special Collections content, collections.ed.ac.uk, is changing. A design overhaul which will improve discovery both logically and aesthetically is coming very soon, but …Continue reading →

Digital Library Team’s 12 highlights for Christmas It has been a very busy year in the Digital Library teams with lots happening both with new projects and changes to existing services. Here is a run down of …Continue reading →

The Edinburgh DataShare Awards! The Research Data Service team applauds those researchers at the University of Edinburgh who share their data. We therefore decided to show our appreciation by presenting awards to our most …Continue reading →

Research Data MANTRA gets a refresh Research Data MANTRA updates MANTRA, the free online training course which provides guidelines for good practice in research data management (RDM), has recently been refreshed. The course content remains applicable …Continue reading →

Family history and the Statistical Accounts We’re always interested to hear how you use the Statistical Accounts. Family historians are one of the key groups who make use of our service so we were delighted to see Jane Harris recently publish a blog …Continue reading →