Newsline from EDINA
April 2005: Volume 10, Issue 1
The Joint Board set up to oversee the development and successful launch of the Statistical Accounts of Scotland service has now entrusted EDINA with the long-term archival care and continuing provision of the service. The Editorial Board will continue, under the guidance of Dr Ann Matheson who acts as Hon. Editor, to assist the development of the service. A new version, with a major re-work of the user interface and additional features will be released later this year.
The full service will now be available to all institutions on a subscription basis, where the intention is to cover running costs of hosting. Basic access to the pages will continue free-to-web.
The subscription service offers a range of search and display features for the scanned pages and underlying text. In addition the interface contains maps, tables and other related data from the volumes.
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland are a key historic resource, and in two series illuminates Scotland at the time of the industrial revolution.
For further information about the service, or to request a trial, go to http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/access or email edina@ed.ac.uk.