New journal titles in urban design, and sports engineering

Two new journals are available to members of the university.  Both are additions to existing services to which we already subscribe.

Periodicals 624
Proceedings – Institution of Civil Engineers: urban design and planning, Vol 161 to date

Periodicals 621
Proceedings – Institution of Mechanical Engineers: P: journal of sports engineering and technology, Vol. 222  to date.

An A-Z list of all journal subscriptions is available.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

New books in the Library – 27th June

Added to the library recently were books on new leadership, economic indicators, remote sensing, health and safety, molecular design and several other topics.

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

 

 

 

 

 

Selected new titles in Riccarton Library include Reshaping planning with culture, by Greg Young, and Excel for scientists and engineers: numerical methods, by E. Joseph Billo.   You can search inside this book at Amazon. Both books are on standard loan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A copy of the 2nd edition of The culture of design, by Guy Julier has been added to the library at Galashiels. You can search inside this book at Amazon.

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

Information on suggesting books 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

Internet Resources Newsletter – July Issue

If you’re interested in new and noteworthy websites of relevance to students, academics and researchers, or news from the scholarly publishing industry, or new academic and library blogs, and much more, then check out the July 2008 issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter.

The newsletter is edited by Marion Kennedy, Catherine Ure and myself.  It’s monthly, and its free.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

VISION courses for semesterisation – OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

 

  

If you’re redesigning a VISION course for semesterisation, here’s a great opportunity - adding key reading materials (by adding links or scans).

Make your VISION courses more interactive, attractive and supportive.   Add an extra dimension to your course  – at little opportunity cost.  Spend a few minutes adding some links or ask your Subject Librarian to lend a hand and that’s it!   Your students get online course notes and reading materials  -  together on the same plate!  Have a look at the kinds of materials you can link to.

Not sure what to do next?  Contact libscan@hw.ac.uk for information on how to get a scanned document in VISION or M.L.Kennedy@hw.ac.uk for information on linking.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

New eBooks in the Library – 23 June

A number of new eBooks are available from the Library:

Global industrial relations, edited by Michael J. Morley, Patrick Gunnigle and David G. Collings.

Write great essays!: a guide to reading and essay writing for undergraduates and taught postgraduates, by Peter Levin.

Sail through exams!: preparing for traditional exams for undergraduates and taught postgraduates, by Peter Levin.

Racialized boundaries: race, nation, gender, colour and class and the anti-racist struggle, by Floya Anthias, Nira Yuval-Davis and Harriet Cain.

Principles of retailing, by John Fernie, Christopher Moore, and Suzanne Fernie.

Marketing across cultures, by Jean-Claude Usunier and Julie Anne Lee.
4th ed.

Managing change: a strategic approach to organisational dynamics, by Bernard Burnes.
4th ed.

Logistics and supply chain management: creating value-added networks, by Martin Christopher. 
3rd ed.

Logistics and retail management: insights into current practice and trends from leading experts, edited by John Fernie and Leigh Sparks. 2nd ed.

Living supply chains: how to mobilize the enterprise around delivering what your customers want, by John Gattorna.

Global strategic management, by Philippe Lasserre. 

Financial and management accounting: an introduction. by Pauline Weetman. 

International business: themes and issues in the modern global economy, by Debra Johnson and Colin Turner.

The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy: an economist examines the markets, power and politics of world trade, by Pietra Rivoli.

For on and off campus access to these titles an Athens username and password is required.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian 

Lost and in need of direction? Ask Miss Dewey

Have a look at one of my favourite YouTube videos starring Stanely Unwin, the master of talking rubbish very convincingly . . . .

This clip makes me laugh but it also taps in to some deep rooted frustration.  I really don’t like it when I can’t get the information I need!

Do you ever get that?  Maybe you find navigating electronic journals a bit mind boggling? 

“Why can I see this article but not that one – they’re from the same journal? AARGH!?”

“Why am I being asked to pay for this article?” We subscribe to this – don’t we???”

“I don’t believe it! I’m getting a message saying I’ not authorised even when I’ve logged in.”

If you’re unsure, don’t ask Heriot Watt’s answer to Stanely Unwin - ask one of the library staff!  Email,  chat or call (451-3582) and make finding the information you need less confusing.

Trust me. I’m Miss Dewey.

Name: Miss Dewey
Occupation: Librarian
Age: 32
Mission:  To rid the world of Miss Information

Photo on this post by Mrs. Maze www.flickr.com
Creative Commons licence for this photo

Enjoy the summer – we’re still open

The Library staff hope you enjoy the Summer Vacation.

We’ll be open on our Summer Vacation schedule from Saturday 21 June – Sunday 14 September.

Riccarton Library will be closed for stocktaking Monday 14 July – Thursday 17 July.

We’ll be busy throughout the vacation.

As well as our normal activities – buying books for next year, stocktaking and checking all the existing books, helping students working on dissertations and other research through the summer – we’ll be making some changes. In Riccarton Library, we’ll be re-arranging some of the shelves on level 2 and working with Catering to install our new cafe. We’ll also be buying some new furniture for Levels 2 & 4 to give you better facilities for group working and discussion. In Galashiels, we’ll be finalising the detailed plans for the refurbished Martindale Library and working with our colleagues at Borders College to plan the combined service which we’ll be offering from summer 2009.

Of course, we will also be taking our holidays, so it won’t all be hard work!

We look forward to seeing you in September.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

New books in the Library – 19th June

Added to the library recently were books on sustainable energy, image processing, property valuation, non imaging optics, and several other topics.

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

Selected new titles in Riccarton Library include How to write and publish a scientific paper by Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel, and  Study skills: a student survival guide, edited by Kathryn L. Allen (you can search inside this book at Amazon).

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

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

Arnold Myers
Senior Information Scientist

Global scientific information search service expands its coverage

I mentioned the WorldWideScience.org service in a previous post on this blog, nearly a year ago.  Since then, it has been considerably expanded. 

WorldWideScience is a “global science gateway” - what this means is that you can search 32 national scientific databases and portals from 44 countries at the same time.  What you are actually searching is more than 200 million pages of science and technology information not typically accessible through popular search engines.  When it first launched, the portal linked to 12 databases from 10 countries, so there has been quite an increase in coverage.

Many, but not all, of the references retrieved are freely available.

There’s a short, helpful article about WorldWideScience.org at ReadWriteWeb.

WorldWideScience.org is maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information. 

For more databases available to members of Heriot Watt University, see our Databases and other electronic resources list.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Graduating in July?

Congratulations to everyone graduating in July. We wish you great success in your future careers or further study.

Remember that you should return any books which you still have on loan before Graduation. You can check whether you still have any books on loan through the catalogue - select Patron Functions to check your details.

Want to keep on using the Library after you graduate? Simply register as an External Borrower and keep on borrowing!

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager