Recently we hit the milestone of 4000 items in the University's research repository: Research@StAndrews:FullText! That is over 4000 full text research papers and theses available to read free of charge anywhere in the…
This week’s historical how-to relates to my own interest as a bobbin lace maker and a curiosity…
In order to help support Postgraduate students and those finishing up their dissertations, we have extended our weekend opening hours to 1000-2200 for the 9th-10th and 16th-17th August! Weekdays we are open…
Another in our occasional series of blogs from those using our collections in our Reading Room … For about five years I have been working on the life and work […]
This series has now moved to a new blog, Serendipity. I hope you continue to follow the adventures of Richard Hobson here.Filed under: Uncategorized
Here’s Hobson’s entry for 31st July: Sunday. Captain, William and others came on board. at work all morning on the anchors, also wrote home. sweeping a little and reading the […]
Sometimes you come across someone in the story of the University who just makes you stop and stare, whose erudition and achievements in enabling the work of others fills you […]
Today we are starting a new feature, a daily diary entry from the journal of 16 year old Richard Peele Hobson aboard the ship Philanthropist, as it sailed from Liverpool […]
This summer, St Andrews began contributing information about its earliest printed books to CERL’s Material Evidence in Incunabula project. This project, initiated and directed by Dr Cristina Dondi, seeks to […]
It was announced recently in a Royal Society of Chemistry press release that one of their leading journals, Chemical Science, is to go Gold Open Access in 2015. Not only that, but Chemical Science will be waiving open…