The latest new books added to the Library – 9th November

Added to the library recently were books on energy science, alternative energy systems, structural analysis and several other topics.

For the full list of new print books, go to the New Books section of the Library Catalogue.

   

Selected titles added to the Edinburgh campus library at Riccarton include more copies of Energy science: principles, technologies and impacts, by John Andrews and Nick Jelley, and more copies of the 4th edition of Essentials of economics, by John Sloman.

 

Added to the Scottish Borders College Campus Library at Galashiels were more copies of the 7th edition of Human resource management.

Information on how to place a reservation for a print book is available. Information on suggesting books/eBooks for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
@libram

Still haven’t found what you’re looking for? Repeat literature search workshop

Why not come along to this repeat session on literature searching?

Maybe you’ve been told to find more suitable ‘academic’ material to use in your course work?  Do you have to do a literature review for a project? Have you tried searching for ‘good information’ online and think there must be better material out there but you’re just not sure how to find it?

This workshop will outline general good practice in finding ‘peer reviewed’ information on a topic. It follows a step-by-step approach covering the right words to use and the most appropriate resources to use to help you get the information you need.

It is a non-subject specific session, so could be helpful no matter what you’re studying.

Venue: Anderson Room, Riccarton Library (top floor)
Date: Wed 4th November (repeat of 7th Oct session)
Time: 12.15-13.15 (with optional half hour for questions following)

No need to book – just come along.  You can bring your lunch. We’ll provide the tea and coffee.

See the Library Workshops webpage for more information on this and other workshops.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

The Cite is Right – repeat workshop

Clueless about citing and referencing? Think it is a lot of hassle and don’t quite see the point?

If you missed the first ‘Cite is Right’ workshop, why not come along this repeat session to find out more?

We’ll cover what it’s all about, when you need to do it (and when you don’t), why you might want to take the time to get to grips with it (e.g. how it can help in avoiding PLAGIARISM) and how to make the whole thing a bit easier.

Venue: Anderson Room, Top Floor, Library
Date:  Thurs 5th November (repeat of Wed 14th Oct session)
Time: 12.15-13.15 (optional additional half hour for questions at the end)

No need to book. Just come along. You can bring your lunch and we’ll provide the tea and coffee.

For more information on this and other workshops see with Libary Workshop Programme webpage

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

Library workshop cancellation – Thurs 12th Nov

Unfortunately, we are unable to run the following advertised workshop -

Getting your research noticed: the Research Output Service
Thurs 12th November, 12.15-13.15, Anderson Room, Riccarton Library

This session was advertised as part of the Library’s Lunchtime Workshop programme. We apologise for the cancellation and any inconvenience caused.

We hope to run a similar session in a future programme.

For details of all other workshops see our workshops webpage

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

 

The latest new books added to the Library – 2nd Nov

Added to the library recently were books on car aerodynamics, introductory economics, biochemistry, Microsoft Office 2007, and several other topics.

For the full list of new print books, go to the New Books section of the Library Catalogue.

 

Selected titles added to the Edinburgh campus library at Riccarton include copies of the 4th edition of Biochemistry and molecular biology, by William H. Elliott and Daphne C. Elliott, and Competition car aerodynamics, by Simon McBeath.

Added to the Scottish Borders College Campus Library at Galashiels was a copy of Microsoft Office 2007: in simple steps, by Greg Holden

Information on how to place a reservation for a print book is available. Information on suggesting books/eBooks for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
@libram

ScienceDirect unavailable Sunday 1st November

Please note that ScienceDirect, the full-text scientific database, will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 1:00AM GMT Sunday, 1 November to 10:00AM GMT.   The Elsevier Team apologizes for the inconvenience.  The other bibliographic databases to which the Library subscribes will be unaffected.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

The latest new books and eBooks added to the Library

Added to the library recently were books and eBooks on employment law, management research, change management, data mining, and several other topics.

For the full list of new print books, go to the New Books section of the Library Catalogue.

   

Selected titles added to the Edinburgh campus library at Riccarton include copies of Employment law, 2nd ed, by David Cabrelli, and copies of Management research, 3rd ed, by Mark Easterby-Smith, Richard Thorpe and Paul R. Jackson.

The following eBooks were recently added to the Library.  For on and off campus, an Athens username and password is required to access these eBooks.

Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques, by Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank. 
Description: As with any burgeoning technology that enjoys commercial attention, the use of data mining is surrounded by a great deal of hype. Exaggerated reports tell of secrets that can be uncovered by setting algorithms loose on oceans of data. But there is no magic in machine learning, no hidden power, no alchemy. Instead there is an identifiable body of practical techniques that can extract useful information from raw data. This book describes these techniques and shows how they work. The book is a major revision of the first edition that appeared in 1999. While the basic core remains the same, it has been updated to reflect the changes that have taken place over five years, and now has nearly double the references. The highlights for the new edition include thirty new technique sections; an enhanced Weka machine learning workbench, which now features an interactive interface; comprehensive information on neural networks; a new section on Bayesian networks; plus much more. It includes algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining including tried and true techniques as well as leading edge methods. There is performance improvement techniques that work by transforming the input or output. It includes a downloadable Weka, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks, including tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualizationin in a new, interactive interface.

Making sense of change management: a complete guide to the models, tools and techniques of organizational change, 2nd edition, by Esther Cameron and Mike Green.
Description: Written for students and professionals alike, “Making Sense of Change Management” is the classic text in the field of change management. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome rather than a dreaded concept. It offers considered insights into the many frameworks, models and ways of approaching change and helps the reader to apply the right approach to each unique situation. This fully updated, new edition includes new chapters on recent and emerging research in the area of change management and guidance on how to manage complex change.

Information on how to place a reservation for a print book is available.

Information on suggesting books/eBooks for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
@libram

10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents

1. SciFeeds
Sub-titled ‘Your Life Science Magazine Rack’, which is quite a good explanation, this site lets you view the most recent contents of just over 100 life science journals. You can browse recent issues by subject (e.g. Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, etc), see the most recently updated journal Tables of Contents (TOCs), search the content of TOCs (it’s rather slow), see the most ‘popular’ articles, and if you register, you can do more. There are links to the full text of articles – access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

2. ticTOCs – Journal Tables of Contents Service
ticTOCs covers all subjects – over 12,500 journal TOCs are included from more than 430 publishers. You can Search for journal titles, view the latest TOC for each journal, link to the full text of around 390,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows), export TOC feeds to popular feedreaders, and select and save (by ticking them) journal titles in order to view future TOCs (You need to Register (free) to ensure your ‘MyTOCs’ are permanently saved).  Heriot-Watt University was one of the partners involved in developing this service, which was funded by JISC.

3. CiteULike Current Issues
CiteULike currently has details of over 13,000 journals. You can search or browse for journal titles, and then scan recent articles in these journals.  If you know about RSS feeds, you can get a CiteULike feed for each journal TOC.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

4. FeedNavigator
From the University of Helsinki, FeedNavigator downloads medical RSS feeds published by numerous websites and aggregates their content into a single feed, latest news first. This gives access to over 4,000 medical sources, including numerous many Tables of Contents, which are updated continuously.  You can also get a list of journals covered.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

5. MyJournals.org
Displays details of the latest articles in issues of over 570 popular science journals. You can also select from various subject areas.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions. There’s also a Twitter feed of new items.

6. Zetoc RSS
Zetoc RSS enables you to set up RSS feeds for journals included in the Zetoc service. You can find over 27,000 journal TOC RSS feeds by journal name or by words or phrases in journal titles. Zetoc includes details of more journals than the other services mentioned above.  Zetoc RSS is free to use for members of JISC-sponsored UK higher and further education institutions and research councils. It is also available to all of NHS England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. A number of other institutions are eligible to subscribe to Zetoc.

7. My Favorite Journals
You can select journals of interest from over 10,000 titles, and these are then added to ‘My Favorite Journals’, then you can select any of these favourites to view the latest Table of Contents.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

8. jOPML
If you know about RSS and OPML, then you can use this site to get journal Tables of Contents RSS feeds as OPML files, and then, for example, load these into your favourite feedreader.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

9. Ebling Library, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have produced a list of journal feeds by topic consisting of RSS feeds for 3000+ biomedical and health sciences.  You can view the latest Table of Contents for each journal.

10. SUNCAT: Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community includes links to TOCs, where available. The TOCs appear on the SUNCAT search result screen and at the top of the full record display.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
@libram

Latest news from Research Information

Read the latest news from Research Information magazine:

Student support grows for open access

Guide reviews open-access income models

US grants support digitisationsearc

Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers 

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Recent published articles from the School of the Built Environment

This is an update on previous posts (e.g. here and here) which identified recent articles from members of the School of the Built Environment at Heriot-Watt, using ScienceDirect.

Embedding sustainability in the design of water supply and drainage systems for buildings
Renewable Energy, Volume 34, Issue 9, September 2009, Pages 2061-2066
L.B. Jack, J.A. Swaffield

Can numerical computer modelling aid innovation, efficiency and cost reduction in sanitation provision?
Desalination, Volume 248, Issues 1-3, 15 November 2009, Pages 286-290
M. Gormley

A systemic analysis of the Edge Hill railway accident
Accident Analysis & Prevention, Volume 41, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 1133-1144
Jaime Santos-Reyes, Alan N. Beard

Urban upgrading interventions and engaging residents in fuzzy management: Case studies from Novos Alagados, Salvador, Brazil
Habitat International, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 August 2009
Paul Jenkins, Alex Abiko, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Odair Moraes

Quantifying schedule risk in construction projects using Bayesian belief networks
International Journal of Project Management, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 39-50
Van Truong Luu, Soo-Yong Kim, Nguyen Van Tuan, Stephen O. Ogunlana

Water infrastructure, the UN MDGs and sustainable development
Desalination, Volume 248, Issues 1-3, 15 November 2009, Pages 510-516
Paul W. Jowitt

Effect of activation conditions of a kaolinite based waste on rheology of blended cement pastes
Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 39, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 843-848
P.F.G. Banfill, O. Rodríguez, M.I. Sánchez de Rojas, M. Frías

Development, calibration and evaluation of two mathematical models for pollutant transport in a small river
Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 24, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 1139-1152
Elisabeta-Cristina Ani, Steve Wallis, Andrzej Kraslawski, Paul Serban Agachi

Field study on indoor thermal environment in an atrium in tropical climates
Building and Environment, Volume 44, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 431-436
Abd.Halid Abdullah, Qinglin Meng, Lihua Zhao, Fan Wang

Fire safety in tunnels
Fire Safety Journal, Volume 44, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 276-278
Alan N. Beard

Towards automated progress assessment of workpackage components in construction projects using computer vision
Advanced Engineering Informatics, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 93-103
Y.M. Ibrahim, T.C. Lukins, X. Zhang, E. Trucco, A.P. Kaka

A comparison of NRBCs for PUFEM in 2D Helmholtz problems at high wave numbers
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 August 2009
O. Laghrouche, A. El-Kacimi, J. Trevelyan

Beyond the ‘iron triangle’: Stakeholder perception of key performance indicators (KPIs) for large-scale public sector development projects
International Journal of Project Management, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 9 June 2009
Shamas-ur-Rehman Toor, Stephen O. Ogunlana

The relative utility of regression and artificial neural networks models for rapidly predicting the capacity of water supply reservoirs
Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 24, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 1233-1240
Adebayo Adeloye

Automating progress measurement of construction projects
Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 294-301
Xiaonan Zhang, Nick Bakis, Timothy C. Lukins, Yahaya M. Ibrahim, Song Wu, Mike Kagioglou, Ghassan Aouad, Ammar P. Kaka, Emanuele Trucco

Tunnel safety, risk assessment and decision-making
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 September 2009
Alan N. Beard

If you’d like to see a more complete listing, go to the ScienceDirect service and search within the Affiliation field.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian