EDINA Serials Forum: Helping you manage your journal collections

Booking is now open for this free half-day event on Friday 21st March 2014 focusing on some of the key issues in journal management - with presentations and discussion of the overarching themes and successful approaches in addressing them.

This is an opportunity to learn more about developments of EDINA activities in this area -covering the redeveloped SUNCAT (http://www.suncat.ac.uk), as well as community initiatives such as the UK LOCKSS Alliance  (http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/) and Keepers Registry (http://thekeepers.org/), focussing on long-term access to journal content.

Join us for a lively debate and afternoon tea.

Presenters: Zena Mulligan (SUNCAT), Fred Guy (Keepers Registry, SUNCAT) and Adam Rusbridge (Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS)

Location:

Edinburgh:  Friday 21st March 2014, Main Library, University of Edinburgh

Draft Agenda:

1.00 - 1.30 pm              Registration and tea/coffee

1.30 - 1.45 pm              Putting the Serials Forum and EDINA services in

context

1.45 - 2.30 pm             Managing your journals - how SUNCAT can help you

fulfil your ILL requests; keep your catalogue up to date and analyse your collection (including use cases; details of the redevelopment; demo of the new service, and future plans)

2.30 - 3.00 pm              Forum discussion on SUNCAT issues

3.00 - 3.30 pm              Tea/coffee and cake

3.30 - 4.15 pm              Securing continuing access to e-journal content:

how EDINA's services can help (with reference to the Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS Alliance, and PECAN initiatives)

4.15 - 4.45 pm              Forum discussion on Keepers Registry, LOCKSS,

PECAN etc. issues

4.45 - 5.00 pm              Summary and next steps

                 

Registration and event details:

http://edina-serials-forum-edinburgh.eventbrite.co.uk

For further information about the Forum please contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images

Over 100,000 high resolution images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements are now freely available through Wellcome Images.

Drawn from the Wellcome Library's vast historical holdings, the out of copyright images are being released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.

This means that they can be used for commercial or personal purposes, with an acknowledgement of the original source (Wellcome Library, London). All of the images from the Library's historical collections can be used free of charge.
The images can be downloaded in high-resolution directly from the Wellcome Images website for users to freely copy, distribute, edit, manipulate, and build upon as you wish, for personal or commercial use.

The Model at Edinburgh College of Art: 22 November - 9 December 2013

An exhibition of models from across the University of Edinburgh will open at 6.00pm on 21st November, and has been a collaboration between Edinburgh College of Art and Grays School of Art, Aberdeen.






You could say it will be a model of collaboration!