Organise your references! Free software for staff and students

Organise your references  - dowload from searches, add keywords, search by author, title, publication year, print of references lists - using EndNote Web.

Endnote Web (bibliographic management software) is now freely available to students and staff through Web of Knowledge

More information / Web-based training  / recorded presentations  / factsheet

Other free services which you can use to manage your references include Connotea and CiteULike

Do you have email alerts set up in Science Direct? . . if so read on.

Science Direct will be suspending its email search,  alerts for the week 14-21 January 2007. This is to allow implementation of a new more powerful search engine.  But don’t worry, your alerts will be emailed to you the following week.

Science Direct is a major full-text journal service to which the library subscribes. If you don’t already use it for email alerts - you may want to think about setting these up to keep up to date with what’s published on a topic or in your favourite journals. For more information ask your Subject Librarian

Better searching with Science Direct

Enjoy enhanced searching with Science Direct - a major full-text journal service to which the library subscribes.

From Jan 21, Science Direct will be using  a new, more powerful search engine - FAST ESP (TM).  This new search engine enables powerful, quick and flexible searching and  was recently voted ‘Top Search and Retrieval Technology’ in Information Today’s first People’s Choice Awards

more information

New Google patent search launched

Search around 7 million full-text patents using the Google interface at Google Patents. Limited to US at present but international coverage in future. 

For more patent searching options and information see the library’s patents page

Internet Resources Newsletter - Latest issue available

The latest issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter, Heriot-Watt Library’s own current awareness service, is now available.

This free newsletter is available on the Web, and also by email.  Over 40,000 people subscribe to the email version, and in this month’s issue you’ll find links to all sorts of new and notable websites of interest to academics, plus news of new blogs, two book reviews, and more.  The newsletter is edited by Roddy MacLeod, Marion Kennedy and Catherine Ure.

An RSS feed is also available: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss

If you know of a new website of interest to academics, why not email the editors and get it mentioned in the next issue (due out at the end of January)?

Christmas vacation opening hours

Riccarton Library:
Monday - Friday, 09.15 - 17.00
Weekends - Closed

Martindale Library:
Monday - Friday, 09.00 - 16.45
Weekends - Closed

Both Libraries will close at 13.00 on Friday 22 December 2006, and re-open on Wednesday 3 January.

The Web now has more than 100 million sites

Here’s some news which shows just how big the Web has become.  According to a November 2006 survey from Netcraft, there are now 101,435,253 web sites.  According to the same report, a record 27.4 million new web sites were added during 2006. 

Welcome to “Spineless”

Hello, and welcome.

Why has this blog been named ‘Spineless’  - Well, mainly because its a library blog, and while there are many books, journals and other physical items in the library with spines, the blog is more ‘virtual’ in that its available on the Web.

Where is this blog based?  - Heriot Watt University Library.

Who writes this blog? - Members of the library staff.  For more details, check out the About page.

What will you find in this blog?  We hope to bring you all sorts of information about Heriot Watt University Library, its services and resources, and also other items of interest. 

If you want to get involved, please contact us at: libhelp@hw.ac.uk