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

New books in the Library - 6th June

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

New books in the Library - 9th May

Added to the library recently were books on cryptography, climate change, stochastic processes integration 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 Geometry and billiards, by Serge Tabachnikov, and Mathematics for physics and physicists, by Walter Appel.  Both are on standard loan.

A copy of Mechanistic modeling of gas-liquid two-phase flow in pipes, by Ovadia Shoh has been added to the Petroleum Engineering 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

Keeping up-to-date

Last week, I mentioned that May 1st was RSS Awareness Day and that RSS can be a really useful tool for keeping up-to-date.

This week, I’d like to mention a few specific RSS feeds and lists of feeds which should be of interest.  A growing number of websites are offering RSS feeds, through which it’s possible to keep up-to-date with various kinds of things, as you can see from the list below.  This is only a selection of feeds, biased to science & engineering, and there are many more.  Our About RSS page gives more information on how to use these feeds, and in each issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter I highlight a few feeds in the Blogorama section.  

Academic events
Eventseer.net - the academic events tracker
EPSRC Events

Funding opportunity news
COS Funding opportunities
NERC Funding and research news
EPSRC Calls for Proposals
RDFunding: UK and European Funding Opportunities

Calls for Papers
WikiCFP (A place to organise and share Calls for Papers)

Patents
Popular US patents
Notable patent applications

News from engineering professional societies

Scholarly journals
Recent documents in The Berkeley Electronic Press
Computer Science updates on arXiv.org

Press releases
Alphagalileo RSS channel
European Science Foundation - Global news

Teaching & Learning resources
The Higher Education Academy Materials Subject Centre New Resources Channel
Most Recent Materials In MERLOT Engineering

News and magazines
UCSD list of sources in science and engineering

If you’d like help with RSS, contact one of the Subject Librarians.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

New books in the Library - 2nd May

Added to the library recently were books on programming languages, general relativity, functional integration 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 The hot topic: how to tackle global warming and still keep the lights on, by Gabrielle Walker and David King. This book is on 3 hour loan at Riccarton Library. Also added to Riccarton Library was a copy of Fundamentals of quantum mechanics: for solid state electronics and optics, by C.L. Tang. You can search inside this book at Amazon.

A copy of Modernism 1914-1939: designing a new world, edited by Christopher Wilk 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

Welcome - new Subject Librarian for MACS & engineering

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

Free trade magazines

TechXtra, the resource discovery tool for engineering, mathematics, and computing, which is based in Heriot-Watt University, operates an affiliation scheme with an organisation called Tradepub through which free magazines are available to qualifying professionals.

Here are some of the most popular titles:

EE Times Europe provides news, analysis, product and design information.

FibreSystems Europe delivers coverage of the technology and business issues affecting the specification, purchase and deployment of optical equipment, networks and services across Europe.

LBS Insider is focused news on the design, deployment, and use of location-based services (LBS) technologies around the world.

eWeek provides information for builders of e-business.

NASA Tech Briefs - a monthly magazine featuring exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners/contractors that can be applied to develop new/improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems.

Baseline - a practical guide to planning, costing and managing the implementation of next generation IT solutions to baseline results.

PipeLine and Gas Technology provides information on: engineering, construction, storage, transmission, etc

Hydrocarbon Processing provides job-help information to technical and management personnel in petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical/chemical and engineer/constructor companies throughout the world.

Chemical Processing is a magazine that focuses on chemical manufacturing and its complexities.

Many more are listed in the A-Z.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Newly published books in Life Sciences and Chemistry

Below are some examples of newly published books you might like to order for the library.

If you’re a student or member of staff at Heriot Watt University you can recommend books to be bought for the library using our online form.  Please forward completed forms to your School’s Library Representative.

There are fuller listings of newly published books for Chemistry and Life Sciences in the library’s How to Find Out Guides.

 
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Marion Kennedy

Subject Librarian

New resources help engineers

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

Chemistry articles come alive

The Royal Society of Chemistry is working on a project to enhance the content of their journal articles.  Project Prospect allows you to highlight IUPAC Gold Book terms in the text and view the Gold Book entries. You can also highlight compounds and view synonyms, SMILES and InCHI data, structure diagrams and details of other RSC articles mentioning the same compound. 

This icon indicates articles offering these enhanced features -

Have a look at some of the features available by opening up a sample article (choose Prospect View) and listen to someone from the Royal Society of Chemistry guide you through it.

Find out more about Project Prospect on the RSC website.  Access to the fulltext of all RSC journals (1841- ) is available from the library website.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian