Digital Scholarship Day of Ideas: Data The theme of this year’s ‘Digital Scholarship Day of Ideas’ (14th May) focused on ‘data’ and what data is for the humanities and social sciences. This post summarises the presentation …Continue reading →

Drupal Camp Scotland 2014 Last weekend saw Drupal Camp Scotland (http://dcedinburgh.drupalscotland.org) take place in Edinburgh, billed as ‘The premier training and promotional event for Drupal in the Scottish calendar’. In case you didn’t know, …Continue reading →

Journal of Lithic Studies: First issue published on journal hosting service TAGS: Archaeology | journal hosting service | lithic studies | OJS | open access The first complete  issue of the Journal of Lithic Studies (JLS) has been published supported by the Library’s Journal Hosting Service. The first issue focuses specifically on presentations from the …Continue reading →

Confusing Green Open Access policies Elsevier’s Green Open Access policy on self-archiving is so confusing even the Elsevier Customer Service department don’t know what it is. A few weeks ago one of my colleagues was …Continue reading →

IDCC 2014 – take home thoughts A few weeks ago I attended the 9th International Digital Curation Conference in San Francisco.  The conference was spread over four days, with two days for workshops, and two for …Continue reading →

International Earth Day TAGS: open access | PhD | world earth day Tuesday 22nd April has been designated by the UN as International Mother Earth Day. It is a day of action where people from all over the planet do something on behalf of …Continue reading →

Using an electronic lab notebook to deposit data into Edinburgh DataShare This is heads up about a ‘coming attraction’.  For the past several months a group at Research Space has been working with the DataShare team, including Robin Rice and George Hamilton, …Continue reading →

How can you improve your data management skills? A range of training courses on research data management (RDM) in the form of half-day courses and seminars have been created to help you with research data management issues, and …Continue reading →

Library2 Feasibility Study – progress With Page/Park Architects, Library, Archives and Museums staff have been undertaking a feasibility study into the future of services and facilities currently provided from our Library Annexe buildings. Under the …Continue reading →

New faces at the Data Library We are pleased to introduce two new staff members who have joined the Data Library team. Laine Ruus has taken up a six-month post as Assistant Data Librarian, helping out …Continue reading →