52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 5: Stir up Sunday
I am starting this blog post on Sunday 24 November 2013 and the date is significant – it is a day when work and home life have intersected, as this […]
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Library open 8am-2am 7days a week for revision and exams!
From Saturday 30th November, we will be increasing our opening hours to 0800-0200, 7 days a week! These hours will run until we close at 2am on the night of Thursday the 19th December. When we are closed, you can use…
Open Access Button – mapping paywalls
A new tool has been launched this week to raise awareness of open access and provide evidence for 'paywalls'. Now if you are asked for payment in exchange for access to a scholarly article you want to read, you can…
Lighting the Past: The Crombie Collection
The Lighting the Past team has completed its fourth collection to date! This collection belonged to the Reverend Frederick Crombie and was donated to the Library by his sister in […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 4: The Complete Servant
Many items which appear in our blogs are visually stunning. The focus of this blog, The Complete Servant, by Samuel and Sarah Adams, is certainly not this. Acquired by the […]
Exposing the Photographic Book Collection: a summer amongst the stacks
Earlier this summer I was lucky enough to spend a few months writing catalogue entries for some of the works held in the new Photographic Books Collection. This was a […]
Open Access monograph – Wellcome Trust OA funding in action
Just a few weeks after the Wellcome Trust strengthened their open access policy to include monographs, the first OA monograph funded by the Trust has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Fungal Disease in Britain and…
Happy Gavin Douglas Day! Celebrating 500 years of The Eneados
Today, the Scottish Poetry Library and the Writer’s Museum are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the completion of Gavin Douglas‘s The Eneados. Douglas, a Scottish prelate and poet, was born […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 3: Talbot’s Photogenic Drawing in The Pencil of Nature
From well before the time when William Henry Fox Talbot ventured into the realm of photographic experiments, the effects of silver nitrate, salts and light were known to several men […]
University Library Announces Visiting Scholarship Scheme
To celebrate the opening the new Martyrs Kirk Research Library, the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships will underwrite the costs […]