Images of early Islamic architecture: a record of destroyed antiquities in Iraq and Syria TAGS: Aleppo | antiquities under threat | Archaeology | destroyed antiquities | digitisation | Early Islamic Architecture | Edinburgh | ERA | Iraq | Mosul | Palmyra | PhD | Samarra | Shia | Syria | Theses   The aim of our PhD thesis digitisation project is to make available the unique research of the University of Edinburgh. This research has a greater significance when, within the …Continue reading →

PhD Theses Conservation TAGS: book conservation | digitisation | PhD My name is Nicole and I am excited to be in my fourth week as the new digitisation project conservator working on conserving the PhD theses before digitisation. The PhDs …Continue reading →

Thesis scanning project: six months in! TAGS: digitisation | PhD | thesis Friday 28 October marked the end of the first quarter of the Library’s PhD digitisation project, with over 3,000 theses scanned to date. After a challenging first few months, the …Continue reading →

5,000 Science and Engineering theses now online! TAGS: ERA | PhD | RedRock | thesis Library & University Collections is pleased to announce the upload of around 200 digitised Science and Engineering theses to our online repository, bringing to an end the University’s largest digitisation …Continue reading →

What The Copibook Saw TAGS: 1850's | 1910's | 1960's | Copibook | digitisation | Edinburgh | PhD | time-lapse | youtube

Cemeteries in the 60’s TAGS: 1960's | burials | cemeteries | digitisation | Edinburgh | France | Library | memorials | PhD | rare books | Roman | stele | Theses Iron Age burial excavated at Châlons-sur-Marne, France (Ritchie: 1968) Highlights from the PhD digitisation project Exploring the theme of cemeteries and memorials showcases some of the most visually rich and striking theses …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 →

Finding New College theses on the online catalogue TAGS: library catalogue | New College Library | PhD | research | Theses | University of Edinburgh In response to your questions, here’s some tips for finding New College theses on the University of Edinburgh Library catalogue. Personally, I find using the Aquabrowser version of the catalogue …Continue reading →

New College Theses collection now fully catalogued online TAGS: alumni | Divinity | Funk | PhD | research | Special Collections | University of Edinburgh Over 700 New College theses covering the period 1920-1985 have now been catalogued online as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects.  Some of these theses have second  copies at the …Continue reading →