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
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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
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Added to the library recently were books on environmental sociology, surveying, wave propagation, petroleum geostatistics 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 Key concepts in e-commerce, by Alan Charlesworth., and Managing project risk: best practices for architects and related professionals, by James B. Atkins and Grant A. Simpson. 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
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Added to the library recently were books on European politics, string cosmology, fibre optic communications 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 Tourism and hospitality marketing: a global perspective, by Simon Hudson. Two copies of this book are on 3 hour loan. Also added to Riccarton Library was a copy of The history of the theory of structures: from arch analysis to computational mechanics, by Karl-Eugen Kurrer
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
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Added to the library recently were books on new urbanism, shipping, maritime economics, management accounting 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 Invisible city: poverty, housing and new urbanism, by John Ingram Gilderbloom, and Modern transport geography, edited by Brian Hoyle and Richard Knowles. You can search inside this book at Amazon. Both books are on standard loan.
A further copy of the 5th edition of Operations management, by Bigel Slack, Stuart Chambers and Robert Johnston has also been added to Riccarton Library.
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
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OvidSP is one of a number of online platforms through which members of Heriot-Watt have access to bibliographic databases. In the case of OvidSP, the databases in question include ICONDA (the International Construction Database), and IBSS (the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences).
These two databases can be very useful search tools for finding articles and other types of publications on construction-related topics, and social science topics. They both list items which can’t be found by searching Google. For more, similar search tools, see our How To Find Out guides, or contact a Subject Librarian.
We’ve heard that the Ovid Training team has created some new online self-running training tutorials on various topics. Each tutorial is roughly 2-4 minutes in length and requires the flash player.
Tutorials include:
Please note that the files are quite large and may take a minute or two to load. Though the examples used in the tutorials do not feature ICONDA or IBSS, they show the basics of searching, and quite a bit more. Of particular interest may be the Find Citation overview.
Citation searching is also available in the Web of Knowledge and in the EbscoHost platform (through which you can search the Business Source Elite, SPORTDiscus, PsychArticles and PsychINFO databases), and some other search tools such as Google Scholar give details of other documents that have cited items found in search results.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Added to the library recently were books on matrix modeling, logistics, health promotion 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 Estates: an intimate history, by Lynsey Hanley. You can search inside this book at Amazon. Also added to Riccarton Library was a copy of Logistics freight transport: domestic and international: for managers and students, by Stuart Emmett.
A copy of Deluxe: how luxury lost its lustre, by Dana Thomas has been added to the library at Galashiels.
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
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We are delighted to welcome Sarah Kelly, who joined us during the vacation. Sarah is our new Subject Librarian for the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, and also for Civil, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering.
Sarah will be providing an expert advisory service in these subjects to help you identify, locate and use information resources to support your learning, teaching and research - feel free to contact her at any time if you have a question. She is also available to give lectures, seminars etc. to groups of students or staff on any aspect of information services and resources in these subjects. She will be working with staff in these subjects to ensure that the Library is kept informed about, and purchases the books, journals and other resources needed to support the academic work in those subjects. Along with the other Subject Librarians, Sarah will also be providing our general Enquiry Service and delivering general induction sessions to new students at the beginning of the academic year. If you’re studying, researching or teaching in any of Sarah’s subjects, why not get in touch and see how Sarah can help. Contact her at S.Kelly@hw.ac.uk or by phone on 3574.
Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager
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New resources help engineers - this is an article I wrote for the Feb/Mar issue of Research Information. It’s essentially a roundup of developments in the engineering publishing world over the past year. It features updates about developments, new journals, federated search tools, Open Access and more, from publishers such as Elsevier, GlobalSpec, Emerald, IEEE, Sage, etc.
Other items in this issue of Research Information include Academics back peer review but want improvements, Report shows JPEG 2000 is a great step forward and Subject repositories top ranking.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Added to the library recently were books on structural analysis, project management, reliability assessment and several other topics.
Some choice titles include The green building revolution, by Jerry Yudelson, and the 4th edition of Research methods for business students, by Mark Saunders. Both have been added to Riccarton Library. You can search inside Research methods for business students at Amazon.
A copy of the 5th edition of Managing quality, edited by Barrie G. Dale, Ton van der Wiele and Jos van Iwaarden has been added to the Galashiels Library. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.
Please let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for titles to be purchased for the library.
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Senior Subject Librarian
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