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		<title>Google workshop cancelled &#8211; 25th Nov</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Kennedy</dc:creator>
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Unfortunately, due to illness, we&#8217;ve had to cancel the following workshop planned for today &#8211; 25th November.
&#8220;Google &#8211; I&#8217;m feeling lucky!&#8221;
12.15-13.15
Anderson Room, Riccarton Library
You can view the slides for the workshop or contact the presenter  for more information on what&#8217;s covered.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian
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		<title>New books on ethical fashion, the Scottish legal system, Greek mythology&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Added to the library recently were a number of new books &#8211; for the full list, go to the New Books section of the Library Catalogue.
     
Selected titles added to the Edinburgh campus library at Riccarton include a copy of Eco chic: the savvy shopper’s guide to ethical fashion, by Matilda Lee, which is on 3 hour loan, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=3477&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Donation of actuarial maths books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library has received a donation of over 50 textbooks for Actuarial Maths courses.  
The donation was made in memory of Alison Kelly, who was a student in Actuarial Maths from 2006 &#8211; 2009.  We are very grateful to Alison&#8217;s family for their generous donation.
Gill McDonald
Acting Librarian

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		<title>Congratulations to our new graduates!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill McDonald</dc:creator>
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Congratulations to all students who are graduating this week.  We hope you enjoy the ceremony.
We&#8217;d particularly like to congratulate our new PhD graduates.  The world will soon see the fruits of your research, when your thesis is made available in our Research Output Service.  This contains details of every Heriot-Watt PhD thesis, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=3452&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop: Finding the best of the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Kennedy</dc:creator>
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Staff from Intute  will be running a session called Diamonds in the Rust on Thursday 26th November (12.15-13.15 in the Anderson Room, top floor of the Riccarton Library).  This session will cover -

how to locate good web resources for education and research
demonstrate tools that develop critical thinking skills
show some of the best online educational resources

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		<title>Search current issues of 4,500+ technology journals through new service &#8211; TechJournalContents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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TechJournalContents is a brand new service which lets you to search across the current issues of more than 4,500 scholarly technology journals from multiple publishers, in order to find the latest research articles.
Access to the full text of search results in TechJournalContents will depend on whether the Library subscribes to the journals in question or whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=3435&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Kennedy</dc:creator>
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Why not come along to the Library&#8217;s next lunchtime workshop on how to make the most of Google for your academic work? Called &#8220;Google &#8211; I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky!&#8221;, it covers searching Google effectively and introduces the following topics:

advanced search techniques
Google book search
Google Scholar
evaluation techniques

This workshops will be a presentation-style session with lots of opportunities for questions.
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		<title>The latest new books added to the Library &#8211; 16 November 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Added to the library recently were books on nutrition, the science of shopping, the skills of helping, person-centred counselling, and several other topics.
For the full list of new print books, go to the New Books section of the Library Catalogue.
    
Selected titles added to the Edinburgh campus library at Riccarton include more copies of Nutrition: science and applications, by Lori [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=3428&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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Microsoft Academic Search beta is a rather interesting new testbed search engine for over 3,000,000 scholarly papers.  Read what ResourceShelf wrote in their review of it, and read about some of its limitations, as described by Karen Blakeman - &#8220;It only seems to cover computing and the Internet&#8221;.
Find most relevant and top ranked papers by keywords:
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		<title>Times Higher Education article &#8220;Learning to share&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s a very interesting article in THE today, entitled Learning to share, about open access.  &#8220;Open access is, simply, the idea that research articles should be freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone, rather than locked away in subscription journals as many currently are.&#8221; 
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