{"id":3300,"date":"2020-04-02T14:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T14:21:29","slug":"on-trial-south-asia-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2020\/04\/02\/on-trial-south-asia-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"On trial: South Asia Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>*The Library now has permanent access to the South Asia Archive. See <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2021\/09\/14\/new-to-the-library-south-asia-archive\/\">New to the Library: South Asia Archive<\/a> *<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a request from a HCA staff member the Library has been given extended trial access to <strong>South Asia Archive<\/strong> from Taylor &amp; Francis, providing online access to documents ranging from the mid-18th to the mid-20th Century.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3304\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2020\/04\/southasiaarchivelogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can access <strong>South Asia Archive<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/e-resources-trials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>E-resources trials page<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\nAccess is available on and off-campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trial access ends 1st June 2020.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>South Asia Archive<\/strong> is a specialist digital platform providing global electronic access to culturally and historically significant literary material produced from within, and about, the South Asian region. \u00a0Contains millions of pages of digitised primary and secondary material in a mix of English and vernacular languages dating back to the start of the 18th Century, up to the mid-20th Century. \u00a0Contains journals, reports, books, legislation documents and Indian film booklets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3305 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2020\/04\/southasiaarchive_screenshot-1024x625.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2020\/04\/southasiaarchive_screenshot-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2020\/04\/southasiaarchive_screenshot-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2020\/04\/southasiaarchive_screenshot-491x300.png 491w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2020\/04\/southasiaarchive_screenshot.png 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can access South Asia Archive via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/e-resources-trials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> E-resources trials<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\nAccess is available on and off-campus.<br \/>\n<em>Trial access ends 1st June 2020.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/e-resources-trial-feedback-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Feedback welcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Please note that PDF downloads are not available during the Trial.*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/e-resources-trial-feedback-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feedback<\/a> on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*The Library now has permanent access to the South Asia Archive. See New to the Library: South Asia Archive * Thanks to a request from a HCA staff member the Library has been given extended trial access to South Asia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2020\/04\/02\/on-trial-south-asia-archive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4,164,13],"tags":[142,64,119,138,108,44,133,7,6,20,60,24,8,140,17,65],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dF2q-Re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}