Reflections on Physics and Astronomy
This video created by Prof. Clive Greated reflects on the history, progress, and achievements of the School of Physics and […]
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Wikimedia UK AGM
On Saturday I went along to my first Wikipedia AGM in Birmingham. It was a really interesting event and it was great to meet so many dedicated Wikimedians and also to see more than a few familiar faces. Martin Poulter has put together a Storify of tweets and pictures from the event here Wikimedia UK AGM 2016. The […]
Read more#ReadAnneDiary Campaign
Today is World Intellectual Property Day and colleagues in Poland and the Netherlands have chosen this date to launch the #ReadAnneDiary campaign which aims to highlight the EU’s current confusing and outdated copyright framework. Readers of this blog will know how strongly I feel that important historical and cultural heritage artefacts are openly licensed and […]
Read moreOpen Books
This collection of Open Books is compiled from readers’ orders for scans, principally in black and white and some in […]
Read moreOur History
A growing online history of the University of Edinburgh and its people. Using the same methodology as Wikipedia, this project both […]
Read moreCentre for Research Collections Flickr
Encompassing everything from Incunabula and Oriental Manuscripts to Matriculation records and even the notes regarding the creation of the famous […]
Read moreReturn of the Six Best Conference Questions
Way back in 2013 Joanne Begiato, Steven Gray, Isaac Land and I wrote a blog post called The six best conference questions: Or, how not to paper-bomb at a conference. The piece was intended to be an encouraging response to a rather entertaining article written by Allan Johnson in Time Higher Education about the six […]
