A Case for Sensorship Preventive conservation, and environmental monitoring in particular, is an important part of my job as Conservation Officer at the University. It was for this reason, therefore, that I found myself …Continue reading →

Open Access in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" | gold open access | green open access | open access | RCUK | Wellcome Trust My name is Anna Krzak, and I am an Open Access Research Publications Administrator for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. I have been …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data – Call For Papers Dealing with Data Conference 2014 Call for Papers Date: Tuesday 26th August 2014, 9am – 1pm Including a formal launch of the University Research Data Management services by the Principal …Continue reading →

Dinosaur Hackfest Whilst at the Open Repositories conference Kim and I were invited by Peter Sefton, University of Western Sydney, to a hackfest* to be held at the Informatics Forum the following …Continue reading →

Conserving Laing III In April this year, I was lucky enough to be offered a 10 week internship to begin conservation work on the David Laing Bequest of rare books. This internship was …Continue reading →

Open data repository – file size analysis The University of Edinburgh’s open data sharing repository, DataShare, has been running since 2009.  During this time, over 125 items of research data have been published online. This blog post …Continue reading →

Open Repositories 2014 Last week I travelled to Helsinki, Finland, for the Open Repositories 2014 Conference, which had more than 450 attendees. The five days whizzed by with so much going on and …Continue reading →

Welcome! Welcome to the new University of Edinburgh’s conservation blog. This post will be the first of many, keeping you up-to-date with all the interesting and exciting aspects of the conservation …Continue reading →

Data journals – an open data story Here at the Data Library we have been thinking about how we can encourage our researchers who deposit their research data in DataShare to also submit these for peer review. …Continue reading →

The Harvard Open Access Initiatives On Tuesday 10th June we are privileged to have a visit from Stuart Shieber, Faculty Director for the Office of Scholarly Communications, Harvard University.   Stuart has kindly agreed to give …Continue reading →