In the first part of this blog, we told you about a major exhibition featuring loans from the …
Thursday March 21, 2019
LGBT History Month in the Library
Since 2005, the month of February has been observed as LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) history month in the UK. The aim of LGBT history month is to raise […]
Friday February 22, 2019 Special CollectionsLatest posts
To mark World Poetry Day we're highlighting a PhD theses in the University's Research Repository. The thesis, by Aimée …
Thursday March 21, 2019
Today the St Andrews Research Repository reached another Milestone - 16,000 items! The 16,000th item was: 'Of decolonial …
Wednesday March 20, 2019
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A Day in a Bookish Cornucopia: surveying books from the Library’s Special Collections
The University of St Andrews Library Special Collections Division routinely commissions practical conservation of damaged material from Icon-accredited conservators. As part of the division’s policy on conservation, damaged collection items […]
18 March 2019Special Collections
Fed up with publisher paywalls? Here are some tools that can help!
Publisher paywalls are an enduring phenomenon in scholarly publishing, and one that frustrates the research of the those without subscriptions and who cannot afford to pay the often unpalatable fees for access. https://journals.ametsoc.org Luckily ...
15 March 2019Open Access
The Origins of Photography Great Britain: St Andrews
Last week a major exhibition, The Origin of Photography Great Britain, opened in on the birth of British photography opened in Japan at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Curator Keishi […]
14 March 2019Special Collections