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December 19, 2025
Get the Best from the Library for … Politics and International Relations
Want to get the best from the Library for Politics and International Relations?
Discover the Subject Guides for your area at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides. Start here to explore print and electronic collections, library facilities and library news.
Any questions? Your Academic Support Librarians are Caroline Stirling and Christine Love-Rodgers
Spotlight on significant resources for P&IR purchased recently:
Peace Research Abstracts
Covers essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs and peace psychology. Records selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution and International Journal of Refugee Law.
PAIS International
Covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
Media Education Foundation (MEF) digital films service
MEF produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media.
China Law Info
A bilingual database for China legal documents and information. The database provides both the original Chinese version and the English translation of China laws and regulations, judicial cases, tax treaties, white papers, law journals and gazettes
Very Short Introductions – Social Sciences
Online version of Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions series. Written by experts in the field they offer a bridge between reference content and higher academic work. Access to Social Sciences collection only.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science
@SPSLibrarian
Get the Best from the Library for … History, Classics & Archaeology
Want to get the best from the Library for History, Classics and Archaeology? Discover the Subject Guides for your area at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides. Start here to explore print and electronic collections, library facilities and library news. Any questions? Your Academic Support Librarian is Margaret Forrest.
Spotlight on significant resources for HCA purchased recently:
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online
The Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum systematically collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents. It presents complete Greek texts of all new inscriptions with a critical apparatus; it summarizes new readings, interpretations, and studies of known inscriptions, and occasionally presents the Greek text of these documents. The online edition includes all SEG volumes, and will incorporate all future volumes in the series. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online is automatically updated upon publication of the annual volume.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
The Thesaurus linguae Latinae is not only the largest Latin dictionary in the world, but also the first to cover all the Latin texts from the classical period up to about 600 A.D. 31 academies, and scholarly societies from 23 countries support the work of the Bayerische Akademie (Thesaurusbüro München). The two databases of Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL) and Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) are linked by a common user interface, so that the Thesaurus and the Latin texts of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana can be accessed through one panel, which allows various and differentiated searches. (TLL)
Accessible Archives
Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Includes archives from African American Newspapers, American County Histories, Civil War archives and many other eighteenth and nineteenth century newspaper and journal archives.
British History Online (Premium content)
British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, it aims to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.
Congressional Record
ProQuest Congressional is a comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Finding aid for congressional hearings, committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1970-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present. Compiled legislative histories from 1969-present.
Irish Times Archive
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Margaret Forrest – Academic Support Librarian, HCA
Get the Best from the Library … for Divinity
Want to get the best from the Library for Divinity? A key starting point is the Divinity Subject Guide at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-divinity. Start here to explore print and electronic collections, library facilities and library news. Any questions? Your Academic Support Librarian is Christine Love-Rodgers.
Spotlight on significant resources for Divinity purchased recently:
Oxford Bibliographies – Buddhism, Islamic Studies
This online resource combines an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, to guide researchers to the best available scholarship
Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
This printed guide to the origins and development of the canonical texts of the Bible and the history of the Bible’s interpretation and reception across the centuries is now available at New College Library.
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
Access to newly published Greek inscriptions as well as previously known documents, and complete Greek texts of all new inscriptions with a critical apparatus, all online.
Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – Divinity
Edinburgh College of Art library resources
There will be two ECA-related Pop Up Library sessions at the Main Library during Week 8 of Semester 1.
On Monday 3rd November from 2.00pm – 4.00pm Jane Furness and Margaret Redpath will be on hand to show everyone who visits the Pop Up Library desk some treasures from the ECA Artists’ Books collection. We will also be showing you how to search for Artists’ Books on the library catalogue and answering any questions you may have about Artists’ Books.
On Thursday 6th November from 10.00am – 12noon we will be on hand to talk about ECA Library resources more generally, including how to access e-resources for Art, Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, History of Art, and Music.
Emerald Insight Platform Downtime
There will be a period of downtime on the Emerald Insight platform. This affects e-books and e-journals.
The maintenance is scheduled to take place on Saturday 25 October 2014, between 12am and 3am. During this maintenance window, Emerald Insight will be unavailable for up to 1 hour. If you access the website during this time you will receive a ‘connection timeout’, or similar message, within your browser.
What’s on: 27th- 31st October
#LibraryPop
Drop in sessions -1st Floor Main Library
27th October- 31st October
| AM | PM Get the Best of the Library Week- Meet your Academic Support Librarian |
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| Monday | Metadata games(Tag image collections) | 2-3pm Divinity, History, Classics & Archaeology3-4pm Politics & International Relations, Economics |
| Tuesday | Towards Dolly(Documenting the birth of modern genetics) | 2-3pm Literatures, Languages and Cultures3-4pm Business School, Informatics |
| Wednesday | Session cancelled 🙁 | 2-3pm Design, History of Art, Architecture, Music, Law3-4pm Medicine |
| Thursday | Lothian Health Service Archive | 2-3pm Sociology, Social Work, Social Policy, Education3-4pm Psychology, Philosophy, Language Sciences, Research Methods |
| Friday | Zombie Apocalypse –Accessing resources off campus(ResourceLists@Edinburgh) | 2-3pm Health in Social Science3-4pm Chemistry, Physics, Maths |
Get the best from the Library week @Pop-up Library
All next week, 27th-31st October, the afternoon Pop-up Library sessions are being taken over by the Library Academic Support team for Get the Best from the Library Week.
Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find out more about how the Library can work for you at the University of Edinburgh. So why not pop up and meet us at the 1st floor, Main Library between 2-4pm every day next week.
During the Get the Best from the Library Week you can:
- Discover the full range of information resources available to you
- Find out about new resources purchased recently
- Get one-to-one support from a library specialist in your subject area
The Library Academic Support team provides support to staff and students for all matters relating to library services, so no matter what your question is, we aim to help.
You can find out what subject areas are being covered each afternoon from the Get the Best from the Library Week timetable.
Hope to see you there!
Brought to you by the Library Academic Support Team.
Library burnt to the ground! The Student, 25/10/84
In this week’s digitised edition of The Student 1984:
- The Main Library (almost) burns to the ground
- The Campaign for Real Lager provides a guide to the best fizzy stuff in town
- Tips on novel writing from the University’s Writer-in-Residence
- The Scots Language Society fights the demise of the Scots tongue
- A Johnny Thunders and Hanoi Rocks double-bill delight the crowds at the Caley
Read more at: https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/thestudent/
Taylor & Francis E-books Platform Downtime
Due to essential maintenance users will not be able to access Taylor & Francis e-books for a maximum of 1 hour between 23:00 – 02:00 hours BST on Friday 24th October.
Due to the fact that this maintenance is on the firewalls, which is the outermost layer of the system, users visiting the site during this time will receive a “connection timeout” or similar message within their browser.
The publisher has now cancelled this maintenance period.
Web of Science – New KCI Korean Journal Database
Following last week’s upgrade to Web of Science, we now have access to the New KCI Korean Journal Database. The KCI Korean Journal Database is a searchable repository of literature from Korea and is available for selection listed on the drop down ‘Search’ list.
The KCI Korean Journal Database provides a comprehensive snapshot of the most influential regional content from researchers in South Korea. Using citation connections from the Web of Science™, regional work is framed within the broader context of global research.
Further information at:
http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/kci_kjd/
Online recorded training at:
http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/kci-korean-journal-database/
Further information about our databases can be found at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases
Collections
Hill and Adamson Collection: an insight into Edinburgh’s past
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Cataloguing the private papers of Archibald Hunter Campbell: A Journey Through Correspondence
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Projects
Cataloguing the private papers of Archibald Hunter Campbell: A Journey Through Correspondence
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Archival Provenance Research Project: Lishan’s Experience
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