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As the end of exams and assessments for many of our students comes closer, we would like to remind people that the libraries will be closed over the Christmas holiday.

All three libraries will close at 17.00 on Friday, 20 December, 2024 and remain closed until Monday, 6 January, 2025.

Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

Room 401, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

Dr Pauline Wilson completed a degree in biochemistry and went on to study medicine at the 51cg and graduated with an honours degree in 1998. Dr Wilson then went on to undertake her junior doctor jobs in Aberdeen…

Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

Dr Mark Davidson trained as a paediatric intensivist with areas of specific interest and expertise including ECMO, cardiac intensive care, flexible bronchoscopy and retrieval medicine. He has been a consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow for the…

Aberdeen Medico Chirurigical Society

Room 402, Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

Dr Keith Grimes is a GP, Digital Health Consultant and alumnus of Aberdeen Medical School, having graduated in 1996. He is the Founder of Curistica, a boutique innovation consultancy which provides traditional Chief Medical, Product and Clinical Safety Officer services…

Aberdeen Medico-Chirurigal Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, Thursday 26th September at 7pm

Professor Maggie Cruickshank graduated from the 51cg in 1985 and retired last year after 26 years as a clinical academic at the 51cg working in gynaecology and researching the prevention of lower…

The Digital Poverty Alliance defines digital poverty as “the inability to interact with the online world fully, when, where, and how an individual needs to.” 

Ofcom’s 2022 Digital Exclusion Review sets out some of the key barriers. These include the affordability of devices and internet packages,…

This February and March, we are celebrating the achievements of women and girls in science: several of whom were trailblazers in their time, and whose research and work is making a profound difference in the world. Recently, February 11th marked the 9th Women & Girls in Science Day, with the…

This February is LGBTQ+ History Month, and the theme for this year's campaign is "Medicine: Under the Scope." Exploring the many and varied contributions to the NHS that this community makes, it also seeks to inspire and educate by exploring the lives of little known individuals, highlighting past and present…

New! Open Access Requirements for UKRI Funded Longform Publications

 From 1st January 2024 the UKRI open access policy will apply to long-form publications. Monographs, edited collections, and book chapters published from 1st January 2024 are required to be open access under a Creative Commons licence no later than 12 months…

Is this the beginning of the end for the era of excessive profiteering by publishers?

2023 has been a year of unrest at many commercial journals run by major publishers. Does this signal the start of a pushback against high publishing charges and are some of the alternative (non-profit)…