The UK Government's Business, Innovation and Skills Committee published their report today following an inquiry into open access. Parliament announced the report, emphasising the role of repositories: "The Government’s…
Scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences now have an opportunity to publish open access monographs with Brill’s new initiative: “As a major publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Biology and International Law,…
During a grueling (if not long-lived) summer heat wave, the Lighting the Past team has kept nice and cool in Special Collections where we’ve been hard at work cataloguing our […]
In November 2011 a post on this blog highlighted Theodor de Bry’s Grand Voyages. This is a hefty and multi-faceted tome, and, as a reprographic technician, I was encouraged to […]
Read the whole You Said We Did Archive on the Comments and Suggestions page. (03/6/13) Get a microwave plz. Thanks for completing a Library You Said/We Did card the other week asking us to install microwave facilities.…
On behalf of UK higher education funding bodies, HEFCE has announced a consultation on open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework. The funding bodies are committed to a policy that supports increased…
Introduction to Lighting the Past The Lighting the Past project aims to catalogue the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the University Library’s Department of Special Collections […]
The Women’s British Open is the leading Major Golf Championship recognised by both the Ladies European Tour and the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Begun in 1976, this is only the […]
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around 5,ooo volumes) which remain largely […]
The Library has acquired perpetual access to another important online resource - Brockelmann Online.