Library fines paid in on 15th November – up to a total for the day of £1,000 – will go to the charity Book Aid International. Look out for the above poster displayed in the main University Library. Here is some…
The last three talks in the University Library’s popular King James Library Lecture series will be delivered on November 14 and 15 as part of the Research Libraries UK Members’ meeting, which is being held in St…
We bought this recipe book at auction recently, and it arrived with no provenance information. However, from the names and places mentioned, I have worked out that it belonged to […]
During this year's Open Access Week, BioMed Central highlighted a number of open access articles that address questions of impact on society. Having just caught up with the collected tweets, we are delighted to see an…
T’was a dark and stormy night….no, honestly, it really was….when a gallant band of Special Collections and friends set out in full costume, accompanied by an even more gallant, because […]
Your opinion matters!Be in with a chance of winning an iPad mini! - spend a few minutes completing a short survey about textbooks from Sage publishers, and you can enter a prize draw for an iPad.Sage is interested in…
Over the past couple of years we’ve had themes for weekly blog posts throughout the year, beginning with the very popular 52 weeks of fantastic bindings, and followed by 52 […]
Last week the Lighting the Past team finished cataloguing the non-folio items of the St Andrews Collection. With some 2315 bib records and 3926 item records, this is the largest […]
Are you new to open access or hearing about Creative Commons for the first time? Do you want to know how to find content that has a specific open access licence? Have you had an article accepted for publication and…
We are always delighted at the wealth of content we discover through our open access services, and the insight we get on the amazing research going on in our academic community. To celebrate this, we have created a…