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		<title>Time to simplify academic referencing styles?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s a very interesting article in the THE entitled There are 3,000 ways to cite source material &#8211; why not make it one? by Alec Gill, an academic tutor with the Study Advice Service, University of Hull.
He writes: &#8220;It is time to change. Academic styles of referencing must be reformed, unified and simplified.&#8221; and &#8220;The reform of academic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2605&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Organizational research methods, marketing strategies, play in early childhood &#8211; and other new books in the Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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Added to the library recently were books on organizational research methods, marketing strategies, play in early childhood and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
 
Selected titles added to the Edinburgh campus library at Riccarton include acopy of Organizational research methods: a guide for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2599&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial Intelligence &#8211; free online content in July and August</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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The Springer Computer Science Reading Room offers free access to books and journals in all areas of Computer Science:

 Artificial Intelligence
Graphics, Vision, and Imaging
Database Management
Foundations of Computing
Information Security and Cryptology
 Software Engineering and Programming
Human-Computer Interaction

New content is added to the Reading Room ever other month, focussing on one of these subject areas &#8211; this July [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2593&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to all our graduates!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:00:12 +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 &#8211; and the strawberries!
We&#8217;d particularly like to congratulate Rory Swinson-Reid who worked as a Student Shelver in the Library, and who graduates this week.  Well done Rory!
Gill McDonald
Deputy Librarian
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		<title>Major improvements to TechXtra search service for engineering, maths and computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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TechXtra, one of the Ten science search engines I mentioned a while back on this blog, has recently been improved.
TechXtra is a free service provided by the ICBL and Library at Heriot-Watt University.  Using TechXtra you can find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2562&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an interesting article the other day in the Business &#38; Media section of The Observer, entitled Will Philadelphia be the place where the American newspaper dies?  Several cities in the US are in danger of losing their newspapers, and the article suggests that the same may well happen in the UK &#8211; &#8220;This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2552&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New search engine from Microsoft &#8211; Bing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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Microsoft recently made available a new search engine called Bing.  It&#8217;s been getting mixed reports in the media.  Two of the sources I rely on for expert and impartial reviews of search engines were not very positive at all.  Phil Bradley reported: It&#8217;s awful, and Karen Blakeman said: Don&#8217;t bother.  Elsewhere, some reviews have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2546&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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Added to the library recently were books on international economics, chemistry, fashion and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
    
Selected titles added to the Edinburgh campus library at Riccarton include more copies of the 8th edition of International economics: theory and policy, by Paul R. Krugman and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2532&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 20 Countries in Engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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ScienceWatch.com, a weekly behind-the-scenes look at the scientists, journals, institutions, nations, and papers selected by Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters and other products of the Research Services Group, has released a listing of the top 20 countries which, as of the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science IndicatorsSM, attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2523&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet news, new websites, blogs, tweets, etc</title>
		<link>http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/internet-news-new-websites-blogs-tweets-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roddy MacLeod</dc:creator>
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The June 2009 issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter is now available.
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, Twitter, and much more, then check out this newsletter.
The newsletter is edited by Marion Kennedy, Catherine Ure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hwlibrary.wordpress.com&blog=544309&post=2518&subd=hwlibrary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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