E-Book News – January update TAGS: American History | Archaeology | art | astronomy | British History | Business and Management | Cambridge Books Online | Cambridge University Press | Classical Studies | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Economics | Economics and Finance | education | English Literature | Environment and Sustainability | European History | General Science | Geography | history | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | linguistics | Literature | Management | mathematics | Medicine | music | Oxford Scholarship Online | Palgrave | Palliative Care | Philosophy | Physics | Political Science | Politics and international relations | psychology | Public Health and Epidemiology | religion | Social Work | Sociology | Taylor & Francis A further 260 new titles have been added to our Cambridge Books Online Collection across the following subject areas; American History, Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, British History, Classical studies, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, Education, English Literature, European History, General Science, Geography, History …Continue reading →

Mathematics at the CRC TAGS: CRC | geometry | Laing | mathematics Whilst preparing an introductory presentation for History of Science UG students, I came across this fascinating handwritten volume on geometry. It looks quite unassuming from the outside, but inside are the …Continue reading →

December E-Book News TAGS: American History | American Literature | art | Berg Fashion Library | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Classical Studies | Computer Science | Dawsonera | Dictionaries | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | education | Elsevier | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fine Arts | General Science | Geography | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Humanities | Language and Linguistics | language reference works | Law | Life Sciences | mass communication | mathematics | media | Multidisciplinary | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Reference Online | Oxford University Press | Philosophy | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Science Direct | Social science | Sociology We have additions to the following e-book packages. Berg Fashion Library – We have added 70 e-books to our catalogue in December.  See a list of the Berg e-books (currently …Continue reading →

Autumn E-Book News TAGS: Access Engineering | American History | American University in Cairo Press | Anthem Press | Archaeology | art | astronomy | Boydell & Brewer | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Cambridge Histories | Cambridge Histories Online | Cambridge University Press | Classical Studies | Dawsonera | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | Economics & Finance | Edinburgh University Press | education | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fordham University Press | General Science | Geography | history | Hong Kong University Press | International Relations & Development | Jagiellonian University Press | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | Liverpool University Press | Management | Manchester University Press | mass communication | Mathematical Association of America | mathematics | media | Media & Culture | MIT Press | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Handbooks | Oxford Scholarship Online | Palgrave | Philosophy | Policy Press | Political Science | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Sociology | Stanford University Press | Statistics and Probability | Taylor & Francis | Theatre & Performance | University of Adelaide Press | University of California Press | University of Chicago Press | University Press of Florida | University Press of Kentucky | UPSO | Yale University Press The following have seen additions to content and have been or are in the process of being added to our catalogue. Access Engineering has seen about 30 title additions as …Continue reading →

Get the Best from the Library for … Mathematics and Physics TAGS: mathematics | Physics Want to get the best from the Library for Mathematics and Physics? A key starting point is the Subject Guides at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-maths and www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-physics. Start here to explore print and electronic collections, …Continue reading →

University Press Scholarship Online TAGS: anthropology | Archaeology | biology | Business and Management | Classical Studies | Computer Science | e-books | Economics and Finance | education | Environmental Science | Film Television and Radio | history | Information Science | Law | linguistics | Literature | mathematics | music | Neuroscience | Palliative Care | Philosophy | Physics | Political Science | psychology | Public Health and Epidemiology | religion | Social Work | Society and Culture | Sociology | university press We have extended our e-book deal with University Press Scholarship Online  to provide access to over 14,000 key titles across over 25 subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, …Continue reading →

New acquisition: Further papers of Alexander Craig Aitken TAGS: Alexander Criag Aitken | Archives | mathematics | staff The mathematician, statistician, writer, composer and musician, Alexander Craig Aitken, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 1 April 1895. He was of Scottish descent. He attended Otago Boys’ High …Continue reading →

A few of my favourite [festive!] things TAGS: Christmas | Cyprus | Hector and Andromache | mathematics | Newcastle | Professor Godfrey Thomson | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson At the start of the festive period, I had the best of intentions to post a festive blog post for every day of advent.  Alas, there isn’t much mention of …Continue reading →

‘Encounters of a mathematician’… TAGS: Berlin | Centre for Research Collections | Edinburgh University Library | Edinburgh University Library Special Collections | Holocaust | mathematics | music | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | University of Berlin | University of Edinburgh | University of Manchester | University of St Andrews | University of Sussex | Walter Ledermann For the last few weeks, I have been cataloguing the papers of mathematician, Walter Ledermann (1911-2009).  The collection largely composes of highly mathematical letters from Thomson to Ledermann.  Having the …Continue reading →