We’re starting up a silent reading club, meeting once a month in the Main Library. All University of St Andrews staff and students are welcome to attend. (Skip to the sign up form). When and where is this happening?…
In this post we’ll look at how you go about searching for the books and ebooks the Library has. When you are searching for a particular book If you know what you’re looking for then the quickest and easiest way to…
This is the first of five posts on Library searching tips. The Search the library box, often referred to as “library search” is prominently located on the Library homepage. When you search here you are searching: The…
Have you ever come across a journal article or book and wanted to quickly find out whether or not you have access to it? You’ve maybe found an institutional login, successfully logged in, and then found you can’t…
As postgraduate students continue their research over the summer, we would like to bring your attention to the more books service. If you come across a book in your research which we don’t have, and you think we…
The Library has a trial to the Statistics data service, Statista. The trial ends on 10th October 2022. Statista provides access to over 1 million statistics and facts, from over 20,000 sources, providing insights into…
The Library currently has trial access to three databases: African Newspapers Series I and II, 1800-1925 Through eyewitness reporting and editorials, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death notices, this…
The University Libraries have recently purchased access to British Library Newspapers parts III-V to add to parts I&II which we already had, to give complete access to all of the content available. British Library…
(English Language translation follows) Am 9. November 1989 versammelten sich tausende DDR Bürger an der Berliner Mauer, um zum ersten Mal seit 1961 die Grenze nach Westberlin ungehindert überqueren zu können, nachdem…
A treat from Andrew Lang’s manuscript of “Ballade of a choice of ghosts” illustrated by Harry Furniss. Read the ballad in full. You have your pumpkin carved, your apples ready, you’ve festooned surfaces with fake…