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 international business, integer partitions, convexity, low temperature plasmas 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 Spaces of sustainability: geographical perspectives on the sustainable society, by Mark Whitehead. Also added to Riccarton Library was a copy of The global circulation of the atmosphere, edited by Tapio Schneider and Adam H. Sobel.
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 have a number of new eBooks in the Library. They are:
Fitting the task to the human: a textbook of occupational ergonomics, 5th edition, by K.H.E. Kroemer and E. Grandjean.
Risk analysis in project management, by John Raftery.
Nanophotonics, by Paras N. Prasad.
Wiley, 2004.
Biodegradable and sustainable fibres, edited by R.S. Blackburn .
Woodhead, 2005.
Fashion marketing: contemporary issues, 2nd edition, edited by Tony Hines and Margaret Bruce.
Sustainable fashion and textiles design journeys, by Kate Fletcher.
Earthscan, 2008.
eBooks are full-text, electronic versions of published books that library users can search and read via the Internet.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Added to the library recently were books on urban spaces, coastal change, fisheries management and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Some selected new titles in Riccarton Library include Stochastic processes, by S.R.S. Varadhan, and a copy of the 2nd edition of Scallop farming, by David Hardy. You can search inside this book at Amazon, and there’s a preview of it (table of contents, selected pages, etc) at Google Book Search.
A copy of Creating a world without poverty: social business and the future of capitalism, by Muhammad Yunus, is available in 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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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.
Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian
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Heriot-Watt staff and students have access to a service called Newsroom via a Library subscription. NewsRoom is comprised of 11,000 abstracts and full text records from the world’s important trade, business and scholastic journals, local newspapers, regional business publications, national and international business newspapers, industry newsletters, broadcast transcripts, and corporate news releases. Because of this range of sources, Newsroom is potentially relevant to every discipline.
The full text of major UK broadsheets are available, such as the:
Sources in other languages are also covered extensively in Newsroom, some examples of the newspapers available are:
Search results can be saved in various formats, including RTF, PDF or HTML. Don’t be alarmed if you see a message about “Estimated Costs” in US dollars when you log out: the Library is paying a subscription for the service, and these charges don’t apply!
Newsroom is accessible from the list of databases on the Library website. If you would like more information about Newsroom, please get in touch.
More information about access to newspapers for Heriot-Watt staff and students is available on the Library website
Catherine Ure
Subject Librarian
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Members of the University now have access to a further 10 eBooks set up as part of the JISC national e-book observatory project. The aim of the project is to assess usage and impact of eBooks in higher education.
The new titles are all published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins and are made available through Ovid online > Books@Ovid. You can find them using the library catalogue by searching on title or author or view all ten titles by typing in the search term ‘ovid’.
The titles are in the medical field and were selected for taught courses in medicine. However, the following will have relevance for Sports & Exercise Science and Applied Psychology subjects.
Merritt’s Neurology
Link to this eBook:
http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=n&PAGE=booktext&D=books&SC=00140037
Includes chapters on psychiatry and neurology (covering mood, anxiety and somatoform disorders) and environmental rehabilitation (including cognitive therapy) as well as sections on developmental abnormalities and dementias. Cognitive impairments of various neurological diseases and conditions are also covered.
Textbook of cardiovascular medicine
Link to this eBook:
http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=n&PAGE=booktext&D=books&SC=00140011
This textbook has chapters covering preventive cardiology (including diet, nutrition, exercise, diabetes, metabolism and obesity).
Studying a study & testing a test: how to read the medical evidence
Link to this eBook:
http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=n&PAGE=booktext&D=books&SC=01223040
In depth critical appraisal techniques focusing on how to identify flaws and limitations in studies
Off-campus access is using Athens. Our eBooks webpage gives more information on Books@Ovid as well as our other eBook services.
Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian
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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.
Cognition and emotion - from order to disorder more information
Food biodeterioration and preservation more information
Quantiative data analysis using SPSS - an introduction for health and social sciences more information
Practical guide to interpretive near-infrared spectroscopy more information
Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian
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Access is available to 26 ebooks from MyiLibrary covering 14 titles in engineering, 7 in media studies and 6 in business management.
Set up as part of the JISC ebook observatory project these electronic books can now be accessed from the library catalogue or from the MyiLibrary site. Here are a couple of example titles:-
Media, gender and identity - an introduction. David Gauntlett. Routledge, 2002.
Link to this book from VISION using: http://www.myilibrary.com?id=6901
Organisational behaviour and analysis: an integrated approach. Derek Rollinson. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2005.
Link to this book from VISION using: http://www.myilibrary.com?id=60146
Find out how to locate these link URLs from the library catalogue in Roddy’s post.
As with the NetLibrary ebook platform you can add notes to the MyiLibrary texts using the ‘Notes’ feature - after registering with your email address to get a password.
For more information on the library’s ebooks see our information page.
Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian
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In our new collection of electronic books from NetLibrary, have a look at the following titles for Psychology:-
Sport Psychology : Contemporary Themes \ by David Lavallee, Elsevier, 2004.
The Psychology of Language : From Data to Theory \ by Trevor A Harley, Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2001.
Personality Traits \ by Gerald Matthews, Ian J Deary and Martha C Whiteman, 2nd ed.
Find out about how to link to ebooks from VISION using the information in Roddy’s post.
Access the full-text of these books from the NetLibrary site or from our catalogue (see all the new ebooks available by typing ebook in the catalogue query box). For off campus access use the Virtual Private Network (VPN). Add your own comments to the texts using the ‘Notes’ feature. You need an Athens username and password to access this feature. More information on eBooks is available from the eBooks information page.
Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian
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