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New modules added to our SAGE Research Methods collection

Following a successful trial of the resources in 2022-23, we have added two additional modules to our SAGE Research Methods collection. Through the Library you now have access to a host of guidance, worked examples, teaching resources and practice materials from SAGE Research Methods, SAGE Research Methods Video, SAGE Research Methods Datasets and SAGE Research Methods Data Visualisation.

Datasets

SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of hundreds of teaching datasets and instructional guides that give you the chance to learn data analysis through hands-on practice.

This new resource is a bank of topical, practice datasets, indexed by method and data type. For academic staff, the datasets have been optimised for use in your teaching and can be used for in person teaching or within Canvas materials. This will save you the time of sourcing and cleaning data for use by you and your students.

The decisions researchers make when analysing data can be a mystery to students embarking on research for the first time. Through practicing analysis using real data from SAGE Research Methods Datasets, you can see how analytic decisions are made, helping you become confident researchers.

  • Quantitative datasets are taken from surveys and experiments and come with instructions to analyze the data in SPSS or R.
  • Qualitative datasets are taken from academic research projects, providing bite-size examples from interviews, focus groups, documentary sources, and more, plus advice on how to approach analysis.

You will find lots of guidance on how to get the most out of the datasets module on the SAGE Research Methods LibGuide.

Data Visualisation

SAGE Research Methods Data Visualisation will help all researchers, from beginners to more advanced practitioners develop the fundamentals of data and design necessary to create impactful visualisations. Through a series of practical video tutorials, text guides and practice datasets, the resources will help you identify the chart types that best fit your specific data story.

Researchers increasingly grapple with complex or big data and need to present their data in an understandable, easy to interpret, and informative way to disseminate their research successfully. Mastering the skills and techniques of data visualisation is, therefore, key for any researcher. This new resource will help you and your students to communicate data with impact so that audiences can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns and relationships easily.

You are able to search and browse by data and chart type to find how to guides and explainer videos, explore a directory of data visualisation software and access datasets to help you practice communicating data.

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New Resources for Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering

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During the summer months we have acquired access to a range of electronic resources for the SAgE Faculty to help support teaching and research activity. All of these great resources are available from Library Search. Here is a snapshot of some of the other new and updated collections.

E-book collections

We have invested in updates to our perpetual access e-book collections from a range of society, professional and academic publishers. Individual e-book titles will be returned in a basic search by author, title or keyword. Collections include:

Evidence Based Acquisition e-books

We also have collections activated in Library Search for evidence based acquisition (EBA). This approach enables access to a lot of academic content to which we wouldn’t normally be available to us. Through EBA, publishers open up their e-book collections on receipt of a deposit paid by the Library for a 12 month period. Once the access period is up, we select the most used titles up to the value of the deposit to form a collection of perpetual access e‐books.

The EBA collections of most relevance for SAgE for 2023-4 include:

Sage Research Methods

We have acquired access to two additional modules within the SAGE Research Methods platform to complement the existing book and video resources.

Datasets

Students and researchers exploring new statistical techniques often find that hands-on practice is essential to the learning process. Master new methods with sample datasets before applying them to your own data. The datasets included in SAGE Research Methods Datasets are taken from government sources and academic research and demonstrate both qualitative and quantitative methods. Each dataset is presented with an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to best demonstrate how the method is applied.

Data visualisation

SAGE Research Methods Data Visualisation will help all researchers, from beginners to more advanced practitioners develop the fundamentals of data and design necessary to create impactful visualisations. Through a series of practical video tutorials, text guides and practice datasets, the resources will help you identify the chart types that best fit your specific data story.

Find out more on our resource blog
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Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester Two 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 50 requests in SAPL totalling £3832.

A New Environmental Ethics The Next Millennium for Life on Earth
A Sense of Wonder Towards Nature Healing the Planet through Belonging
Ambedkar in London
Anamnesis: On the Theory of History and Politics
Annihilation of Caste
Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926: Architecture, Ideology, and Politics
Arkkitehti Elissa Aalto / Architect Elissa Aalto
Being Brahmin, Being Modern
Black men in Britain: an ethnographic portrait of the post-Windrush generation
Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Building Theories – Architecture as the Art of Building
Collective Action!: The Power of Collaboration and Co-Design in Architecture
Colonial Modernities Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
Construed Heritage: Narratives and Collectable Experiences
Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City
Drawing Attention: Architecture in the Age of Social Media
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
Food Deserts and Food insecurity in the UK
Food rule : An Eater’s Manual
Gaudi Unseen: Completing the Sagrada Familia: Completing the Sagrada Família
Interview Techniques for UX Practitioners
Kuwait City Parks A Critical Review of their Design, Facilities, Programs and Management
Laughing at Architecture: Architectural Histories of Humour, Satire and Wit
Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design
Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future
Meat, Modernity and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse
Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal: Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe
On the Street: In-Between Architecture
Planting Design / 2nd
Plastic Emotions
Routledge handbook of urban forestry
Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture
Spaces for Children The Built Environment and Child Development
Temple Sagrada Familia
The architectural detail
The essential Gaudí
The Persian Garden Echoes of Paradise
The Politics of Oil
Twenty Minutes In Manhattan
Urban Ecosystems Understanding the Human Environment
Urban Jungle: Wilding The City
Urban Nature Enriching Belonging, Wellbeing and Bioculture
User Research A Practical Guide to Designing Better Products and Services
Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials
Waste Material Recylcing in the Circular Economy
Water Always Wins Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
Water: A Critical Introduction
Why Cities Need Large Parks
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Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Two 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 44 requests in ECLS totalling just over £3793.

(En)countering native-speakerism : global perspectives
A narrative approach to life story work
Academic discourse across disciplines
Advising on research methods: A consultant’s companion
Audio Education Theory, Culture, and Practice
Australian English Reimagined
Beyond Smarter: mediated learning and the brain’s capacity for change
Brain-based learning
Brain-based learning : the new paradigm of teaching
Changing Practices for the L2 Writing Classroom: Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology
Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and how They Can Stay”
Developmental psycholinguistics: Three ways of looking at a childs\’ narrative
Digital L2 Writing Literacies Directions for Classroom Practice
Education for sustainable development in the Caribbean: pedagogy, processes and practices
English speech rhythm: form and function in everyday verbal interaction
Entrepreneurial Women in the Caribean: Critical inisghts and policy implications
Glocal Narratives of Resilience
Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance
International Faculty in Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Recruitment, Integration, and Impact
interthinking: putting talk to work
Learning in Landscapes of Practice: Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning
Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn: Understanding and Promoting Educationally Productive Collaborative Work
Metacognition in Learning and Instruction: Theory, Research and Practice
Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice
Mindful L2 Teacher Education A Sociocultural Perspective on Cultivating Teachers\’ Professional Development
Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction
Non-native Educators in English Language Teaching
Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School
Provoking Thought: Memory and Thinking in ELT
Reason & Rigor How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research
Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment
Reflective practice in action: 80 reflection breaks for busy teachers.
Revisiting Insider-Outsider Research in Comparative and International Education (Bristol Papers in Education)
School connectedness for students with disabilities: From theory to evidence-based practice
Social Communication Development and Disorders
The Place of English as an International Language in English Language Teaching: Teachers’ Reflections
The Pronunciation of Standard English in America
The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
The Theoretical Framework in Phenomenological Research: Development and Applicat
Towards Dialogic Teaching: rethinking classroom talk (4th Edition)
Video-mediated communication
Voice Unearthed: Hope, Help and a Wake-up Call for the Parents of Children Who Stutter
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (second edition)
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Books added to the Library by students in GPS (Semester Two 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 61 requests in GPS totalling just over £6815.

A Companion to Roman Imperialism
A Field Guide to British Rivers: Implications for Restoration
Accountability through public opinion; from inertia to public action.
Advanced Introduction to Global Production Networks
Artistic Utopias of Revolt: Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol
Black Skins, Black Masks Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity
China’s Digital Silk Road Setting Standards, Powering Growth
China’s Futures PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy
Communication Strategies in Turkey: Erdogan, the AKP and Political Messaging Kindle Edition
Creativity and Conflict Resolution Alternative Pathways to Peace
Danger Zone The Coming Conflict with China
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship
Explorations in Place Attachment
Feminist Theory Reader Local and Global Perspectives
Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America: social movements, state allies and institutions
Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands
Geographies of Children, Youth and Families
Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy
Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Humanitarianism, identity, and nation : migration laws of Australia and Canada
Infrastructure Communication in International Relations
International Sanctions Between Wars and Words
Logos Warehouses Containers
Migration Studies and Colonialism
Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
Phenomenological approaches to moral philosophy
Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (2nd ed)
Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction
Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World
Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance
Reframing the civic university: an agenda for impact
Refugees, Security and the European Union
Resource Conservation Economics and Policies
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
Routledge handbook of immigration and refugee studies
Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East
Sanctions: what everyone needs to know
Serving a nation at war, 1939-1945: a review of the building and civil engineering work of John Laing and Son Ltd
Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender
Signs of life : photographs by Peter Sekaer / John T. Hill ; with contributions by Julian Cox and Christina Sekaer.
Steady-state economics: the economics of biophysical equilibrium and moral growth
Study of Americana: Washington, D.C. Region 1978
The Anthropology of Friendship
The art of sanctions a view from the field
The Economics of Natural Environments Studies in the Valuation of Commodity and Amenity Resources
The Gift of Freedom War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
The National Security Law of Hong Kong : Restoration and Transformation
The Political Economy of Land Rent, Financialization and Resistance
The Political Economy Of Public Sector Reform And Privatization
The Routledge Companion to William Morris
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain
The University and the City
The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence
Transcend and transform: An introduction to conflict work
Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
Urban planning and real estate development
Violence and Understanding in Gaza: the British broadsheets’ coverage of the war
Women crossing boundaries: a psychology of immigration and transformations of sexuality
Working Systemically with Refugee Couples and Families: Exploring Trauma, Resilience and Culture
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Books added to the Library by students in NUBS (Semester Two 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 22 requests in NUBS totalling just over £2264.

Business Analystics (Data Analysis and Decision Making)
Business Analytics: methods, models, and decisions 
Cambridge IELTS 16 & Cambridge IELTS 17 
Cases in Innovative Nonprofits: Organizations That Make a Difference
Essentials of International Human Resource Management / 2nd
Gender, Media, and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers (Women and Leadership)
Handbook of Qualitative Research Methodologies in Workplace Contexts
Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity Handbooks of Research Methods in Management series
Managing the Digital Transformation: Aligning Technologies, Business Models, and Operations
Organizational change
Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research
Philanthropy and the Philanthropy Sector: An Introduction
Principles of Sustainable Finance
Public Good by Private Means: How Philanthropy Shapes Britain
Qualitative Research in Marketing and Management Doing Interpretive Research Projects
Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy
The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the Future of Organization Studies
The difference “difference” makes: Women and leadership
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy
The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation
Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled World
Understanding philanthropy: Its meaning and mission
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Women’s Magazine Archive

After a successful trial earlier in 2023, we are very pleased that the Library has been able to secure access to the Women’s Magazine Archive I-III.

Available in three separate collections, Women’s Magazine Archive provides access to the backfiles of the foremost titles of this type, including Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Woman’s Day, which serve as canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. Other titles focus on narrower topics but deliver valuable source content for specific research areas. Parents, for example, is of particular relevance for research in the fields of children’s education, psychology, and health. Elsewhere, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Essence disclose trends in and responses to the changing roles and experiences of teenage, young adult, and African-American women respectively.

In combination, the publications here cover topics such as family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, culture, and many more; this material serves multiple research areas, from gender studies, social history, and the arts, through to education, politics and marketing/media history.

Issues are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution colour, ensuring that the original print artefacts are faithfully reproduced and that valuable non-article items, such as advertisements, are included.

You can search the resource in different ways, including by Basic or Advanced Search:

Women’s Magazine Archive – Basic and Advanced Search options

For more support on using the Basic and Advanced Search, see the ProQuest Platform support guides.

You can also search within a Publication, or for a specific issue of a publication:

Women’s Magazine Archive – publications search

Viewing individual pages is made easy, with options to download the PDF or browse the full issue:

Women’s Magazine Archive – viewing the full text of an individual issue

Access the Women’s Magazine Archive using your Newcastle University credentials via the Library Search record here.

This resource will be useful for researchers in a number of subjects, including History, English, Media, and Sociology – we hope it is useful, and always, get in touch with the Liaison team should you need any further support in using the Women’s Magazine Archive I-III.

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AM Modules – Empire Online and Church Missionary Society Periodicals 1 & 2

After a trial of several AM (Adam Matthews) Collections modules earlier in 2023, the Library has acquired two new resources – Empire Online, and Church Missionary Society Periodicals 1 & 2.

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Church Missionary Society Periodicals digitises publications from the CMS, South American Missionary Society and Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, encompassing issues from 1816-2009. Thousands of pages with detailed metadata enable new research opportunities in the fields of missiology and world Christianity, as well as a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounter.

The documents include reports on missionary work, serialised journals and letters, birth, marriage, and death announcements, fiscal reports and reflections on worship, making them an extremely rich source. 

You can access the Church Missionary Society Periodicals 1 & 2 via Library Search here.

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Empire Online is an interactive collection of primary source documents sourced from leading archives around the world. Material in the collection spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires; from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others, right through to de-colonisation in the second half of the twentieth century and debates over American Imperialism.

The wealth of documents spans five centuries and includes manuscripts, rare printed materials, letterbooks, periodicals, diaries, photographs and more.

Material in Empire Online has been sourced from a wide range of reputable institutions, with a particularly strong core of documents and images from the British Library. However, the focus is not only on the British Empire; there are a number of documents and secondary resources which relate the story of the Empire from the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German points of view, as well as that of indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America.

You can access the Empire Online database via Library Search here.

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For both databases, you could start by heading to the Introduction tab for an overview on the collection, a handy tour of the website and its key features, and information on copyright:

Empire Online Introduction
Empire Online Introduction

The Documents tab allows you to browse through the full range of documents available in the collections, and includes handy filters to narrow your results Document Type (Empire Online only), Library (Empire Online only), Title (CMS Periodicals only), and Issue Date (CMS Periodicals only).

Church Missionary Society Periodicals Documents
Church Missionary Society Periodicals Documents

Additionally, the Advanced Search is available and allows researchers to build more complex searches:

Empire Online Advanced Search
Empire Online Advanced Search

Empire Online offers an option to view the sources in a chronological format, and the CMS Periodicals offers an option to view the sources on a map format:

CMS Periodicals Maps
CMS Periodicals Maps
Empire Online Chronology
Empire Online Chronology

Both databases offer extensive support, search tips and advice under the Help tab.

Please get in touch if you need any more support using the databases, but we hope that they will be of interest to your research!

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Oxford Bibliographies Online

After trialling on several occasions we have recently been able to purchase the Oxford Bibliographies Online collection which gives staff and students access to a comprehensive collection of articles published and reviewed by academics covering a wide range of subject areas. Users can personalise their experience by saving citations and articles to their own profile.

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Subject areas covered (click on subject to link to resource via Library Search)

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Royal Geographical Society Digital Archive (with IBG)

After a recent trial to the archive from Royal Geographical Society (RGS) we are delighted we’ve have managed to add this permanently to our collections.

The Archive of the RGS covers the history of geography exploration, colonisation and decolonisation, anthropology, international relations, climate science, gender studies, cartography and environmental history throughout the British Empire from 1482 to 2010.

As you’d expect the resources vary from manuscripts, correspondance, reports, proceedings, maps, charts, photographs, atlases to name just a few. Many of these primary source materials have never been digitised before and are available through Wiley for the first time.

These are available as digital images which can be analysed and downloaded.

The archive contains specific collections including the Everest Collection; the David Livingstone Collection; the Sir Ernest Shackleton Collection; the Stanley Collection; the Younghusband Collection; the Speke Collection; and the Gertrude Bell Collection.

There are different ways you can search and browse the collections including choosing your content type first e.g. photographs

Then you can use some of the search functionality to locate what you’re interested in.

Other ways to search

On the homepage you’ll see these links :

The analysis hub lets you search for a keyword or term and see a timeline of when it was most used, which collections look important and related keywords.

The explorer let’s you look for photos and maps across all of the sub collections.

The place of publication browser let’s you use an interactive map of the world to navigate to the area you’re interested and highlights all relevant materials.

In terms of use, permissions and Copyright I’d recommend checking our their webpages for these.

We think this resource will be useful for both teaching and research purposes for those interested in all aspects of geography. We hope you love checking out the digital tools and functionality on the Wiley site.