Standing on the shoulders of giants: Phonetics Recording Archive The University of Edinburgh’s proud heritage of academic and research achievements is underpinned by the calibre of the outstanding staff that have worked and taught within its walls. One such …Continue reading →

The e-Journal of East and Central Asian Religions publishes first issue TAGS: Asian Studies | journal hosting service | journals | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems The e-Journal of East and Central Asian Religions has published its first issue supported by the  University’s  Journal Hosting Service . The Library now supports seven journals on the platform. …Continue reading →

Training subject librarians in RDM I have just completed running the MANTRA course for librarians http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/libtraining.html with my team of 8 subject librarians at Stirling University.  A member of the Research Office attended one session and …Continue reading →

Christmas in the David Laing manuscripts This is a leaf from MS.33, a 15th century Gradual received by the Library as part of the David Laing bequest in 1878.  We have recently been awarded a substantial …Continue reading →

South Asianist celebrates a century of Indian Cinema The fifth issue of The South Asianist celebrates a century of India cinema with an impressive range of articles, interviews and film reviews. Senior Indian film-music critic, writer and commentator, …Continue reading →

Thinking about Research Data Asset Registers [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/12/12/thinking-about-research-data-asset-registers/] In my last blog post, I looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether …Continue reading →

Hydra, SPSS journal, publishes second issue TAGS: journal hosting service | journals | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | SPSS Hydra, the postgraduate journal for the School of Social and Political Science has published its second issue on the University’s Journal Hosting Platform. Hydra’s mission is to strengthen dialogue in …Continue reading →

Welcome to the new Research Data Management Service Coordinator: Kerry Miller We have great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to the research data management programme.  Kerry Miller has joined us in the role of Research Data Management Service …Continue reading →

New research data storage The latest BITS magazine for University of Edinburgh staff (Issue 8, Autumn/ Winter 2013) contains a lead article on new data storage facilities that Information Services have recently procured and …Continue reading →

Postgraduate Arts journal launches on hosting service TAGS: Forum | Library Learning Services | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems FORUM, University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts officially launched on Friday 6th December 2013 to coincide with the publication of their seventeenth issue, Rites & Rituals. …Continue reading →