Researching and writing a dissertation

A book that I ordered, Researching and writing a dissertation: a guidebook for business students, by Colin Fisher, caught my attention.  It arrived in the library a short while ago, and is normally kept at 810.61 FIS alongside similar books on writing dissertations, reports and proposals. 

In fact, the Fisher book has already been borrowed, but if you want it, or any other book that’s on loan, you can request a copy through the Catalogue.

When a book you’ve requested has been returned to the library, we’ll let you know. 

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Latest issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter

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 September 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

Another source of biomedical and bioengineering information – Medline now available via Web of Knowledge

Compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), Medline is the world’s most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains nearly eleven million records.  Now it’s available for searching with a backfile to 1950, by members of Heriot-Watt University, via the Web of Knowledge.  Via the Web of Knowledge, through the ‘All databases’ feature, you can search Medline at the same time as searching Web of Science, ISI Proceedings and Journal Citation Reports.

Medline (1997 onwards) is also available via CSA Illumina, so now you can choose which service you prefer.

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

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Managing motivation, corporate strategy, creativity and problem solving – and other new books

Added to the library recently were books on managing motivation, corporate strategy, creativity and problem solving, and several other topics.

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

  

Selected titles added to Riccarton Library include copies of the 3rd edition of Logistics management and strategy: competing through the supply chain, by Alan Harrison and Remko van Hoek, and Ghosts of Spain: travels through a country’s hidden past, by Giles Tremlett

 

Added to the library at Galashiels were copies of Managing motivation: a manager’s guide to diagnosing and improving motivation, by Robert D. Pritchard and Elissa L. Ashwood

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

Grocery supply, fashion design, consumer law, biological psychology – and other new books

Added to the library recently were books on grocery supply, fashion design, consumer law, biological psychology and several other topics.

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

  

Selected titles added to Riccarton Library include Foundations of economics, by Andrew Gillespie, and International economic law, by Andreas F. Lowenfeld.

 

Added to the library at Galashiels was a copy of The fashion designer survival guide: start and run your own fashion business, by Mary Gehlhar.

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

Looking for science blogs?

Wouter Gerritsma, a subject librarian at Wageningen UR Library in the Netherlands, has compiled a useful set of links to websites which list science blogs. 

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Contemporary Issues eBook collection added to the Library

40 eBooks from the NetLibrary Contemporary Issues collection have been added to the Library.

Selected titles include: Arab Storm: Politics and Diplomacy Behind the Gulf War,  by Alan Munro, Gay TV and Straight America, by Ron Becker, and Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America, by Roger Howard.

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

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian 

International Business eBook collection added to the Library

24 eBooks from the NetLibrary International Business collection have been added to the Library.

Selected titles include – International Business: A Global Perspective, by Marios I Katsioloudes, Japan On the Upswing: Why the Bubble Burst and Japan’s Economic Renewal, by Goro Gotemba, and The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, by Barry Naughton.

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

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian 

New eBooks in the Library – 6th August

A number of new eBooks are available from the Library:

Managing with Microsoft Project 2002, by Lisa A. Bucki and Gary Chefetz 

Language interrupted: signs of non-native acquisition in standard language grammars, by John McWhorter 

The changing languages of Europe, by Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva.

Expression in speech: analysis and synthesis, by Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton

Constructions at work: the nature of generalization in language, by Adele E. Goldberg.

The multilingual Internet: language, culture, and communication online, edited by Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring

Mind as machine: a history of cognitive science, by Margaret A. Boden

Fighting over words: language and civil law cases, by Roger W. Shuy

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

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian 

Internet Resources Newsletter – August 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 August 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