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14th February 20192nd September 2021

Love reading? Browse through BrowZine…

Not sure which journal article you’re looking for? Do it the ‘old school’ way and browse through your favourite journals using BrowZine without having to trek to the library or newsagents to flick through the magazines.

BrowZine is a publisher-neutral reading and discovery platform for eJournals. You can browse complete issues, set up a personal bookshelf of your favourite titles and receive notifications when new issues are released.

You can do this on your PC via Library Search or perhaps you prefer using your smartphone? Access BrowZine via the University App or download the BrowZine App from the Apple Store or Play Store.

Set up your personal account using your University email address and BrowZine will always recognise you as a member of Newcastle University and give you access to the full-text articles it contains.

BrowZine Arts and Humanities Get browsing!

11th February 20192nd September 2021

Finding Architecture and Planning journals

How do you access your journals and magazines? There are a number of options.

If you know the title you can do a keyword search in Library Search.
Your subject guide is a ‘one stop shop’ for all resources and includes a tab to link to core journals, journal collections and magazines such as those in Art and Architecture Archive and the Avery Index. You can also view the list of print journals and magazines that we have in the Library.
If you like to browse individual Architecture or Planning journals, then take a look at Browzine.

8th February 2019

Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester One 2018/19)

We have a service called “Books on Time” for students. This 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 Books on Time

In Semester one, academic year 2018/2019 we bought the following items after requests from students in SAPL.

There were 83 requests from 49 students totaling £4776.41 (22% of requests from undergraduates, 31% from Postgraduate taught and 47% from Postgraduate Research)

Title	Now in stock
A City is Not a Tree	1xlong
A Greedy Man in a Hungry World	1xlong
A History of Great Yarmouth	1xlong
A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3	1xlong
Architect in Practice	16xlong, 1xebook
Architecture and Capitalism : 1845 to the Present	1xlong, 1xebook
Architecture as a Craft : Architecture, Drawing, Model and Position	1xlong
Architecture as Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice	2xlong
Bananas Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space	1xebook
Building Performance Analysis	1xlong
Century of Fishing: Fishing from Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, 1899-1999	1xlong
China Development and Governance	1xebook
Cinemetrics : Architectural Drawing Today	1xlong
Cobe – Our Urban Living Room	1xlong
Colour Strategies in Architecture	1xlong
Computing the Environment: Digital Design Tools for Simulation and Visualisation of Sustainable Architecture	1xlong
Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams	1xlong
Culture and customs of Saudi Arabia	1xlong
Cycle Space, Architecture and Urban Design in the Age of the Bicycle	1xlong
Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power	1xlong
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times	1xlong
Experimental Preservation	1xlong
Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks	1xlong
Fiction as Method	1xlong
Fish and Chips: A History	1xlong
Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics	1xlong
Governing Shale Gas: Development, Citizen Participation and Decision Making in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe	1xlong
Handbook on green infrastructure planning design and implementation	1xlong
Holloway Prison : An Inside Story	1xlong
Horse People: Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington and Newmarket	1xebook
Housing Design for an Increasing Older Population	1xebook
Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society	1xlong
In the nature of landscape	1xlong
Indispensable Eyesores: An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings	1xebook
Infrastructures in Practice	1xebook
Interrogating Ellie	1xlong
Introducing the Sociology of Food and Eating	1xlong
Invitation to the Life Course: Towards New Understandings of Later Life	1xlong
Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science.	1xlong
London’s Turning: Thames Gateway-Prospects and Legacy	1xlong
Making and Growing: Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts	1xlong
Manhattan Transcripts	1xlong
Marcel Breuer: a Memoir	1xlong
Maritime Norfolk: Part Two	1xlong
New Monte Rosa Hut SAC Self-Sufficient Building in High Alps	2xlong
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis	1xlong
North Norfolk Coast	1xlong
Original Rockers	1xlong
Otto Wagner: Die Wiener Stadtbahn	1xlong
Palaces for the People: How to Build a More Equal and United Society	1xlong
Placemaking with children and Youth Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities	1xlong
Planetary Gentrification	1xlong
Prosthesis	1xlong
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood: New perspectives in Childhood Studies	1xebook
Relational Architectural Ecologies	2xlong
Rethinking Vienna 1900	3xlong, 1xebook
Revisiting Divisions of Labour	1xlong
Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring	1xlong
Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence	1xlong
Small Towns, Austere Times: The Dialects of Deracinated Localism	1xlong
Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception	1xlong
The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Space of Transition	1xlong
The Architectures of Childhood: Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Post-war England	1xebook
The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution	1xlong
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids	1xlong
The Ethics of Invention	1xlong
The Evocative Object World	1xlong, 1xebook
The Flak Towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna 1940 – 1950	1xlong
The Great Museum	1xlong
The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order, Book 4	1xlong
The New Black Middle Class in South Africa	1xlong
The Phenomenon of Life	1xlong
The Process of Creating Life: The Nature of Order, Book 2	1xlong
The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler	1xlong
The Structure of Light : Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture	1xlong
The Urban Design Reader	1xlong, 1xstc, 1xebook
The Works: Anatomy of a City	1xlong
Toward an Urban Ecology	1xlong
Urban Disaster Resilience: New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment	1xebook
What Are Community Studies?	1xlong
What is the future?	1xlong
XML : Parliament	1xlong
Young people, Class and Place	1xlong

8th February 20198th February 2019

Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester One 2018/19)

Further information about Books on Time

In Semester one, academic year 2018/2019 we bought the following items after requests from students in ECLS.

There were 28 requests from 23 students totaling £2144.91 (4% of requests from undergraduates, 43% from Postgraduate taught and 53% from Postgraduate Research)

Title	Now in stock
A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories and Systems	1xlong
Acquisitions of Complex Arithmetic Skills	1xebook
Conducting Educational Design Research	1xlong
Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives	2xlong
Early Years Foundations: Critical Issues	1xlong
English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia: New Insights into Teaching and Learning English	1xebook
English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia: New Insights into Teaching and Learning English	1xlong
Everyday Arias: An Operatic Ethnography	1xebook
Handbook of Moral and Character Education	1xlong
Introducing Multimodality	2xlong
Life after Privatization	1xlong
Listening to Young Children: A Guide to Understanding and Using the Mosaic Approach	1xlong
Listening to Young Children: The Reader	1xlong
Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood	1xlong
Mindfulness-based treatment approaches	1xlong
Research and Social Change : A Relational Constructivist Approach	1xlong
Scouse: A Social and Cultural History	1xlong
Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Adolescents	1xlong
Stancetaking in Discourse	1xebook
Student Plagiarism in Higher Education: Reflections on Teaching Practice	1xlong
Student Voice Handbook: Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide	1xlong
Student Voice: The Instrument of Change	1xlong
Student-Centred Leadership	1xebook
The architecture of productive learning networks	1xlong
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multi-Competence	1xlong
The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism	1xlong
University Partnerships with the corporate sector: Faculty experiences with for-profit matriculation pathway programs	1xlong
Visible Learning: Feedback	1xlong

1st February 2019

GUEST POST: OSCOLA… Are you really getting the help you need?

Law Reports Laura-Jayne Beattie, third year Law School student and Law Library Student Aide, has some top tips to help you find help with OSCOLA.

Need help with OSCOLA? Hate hearing this word? Then look no further than here and fear no more, as below I’ve summed up the best places for help with the bane of most Newcastle Law Student’s lives!

Listed below are resources available to help you master the OSCOLA referencing system. Some you may never have heard of, but all are there to ease you through the tricky issues you may face with referencing.

Law Library Staff

With super friendly staff available weekdays, and Stage 3 Student Aides on shift every evening and weekend, what more could you want? Please don’t feel afraid of coming to speak to us, we’re really not that scary (even though we may look it)!

Guides

The guides below are your first point-of-call (click on the links). However, there are sometimes particularly awkward sources. So, if the guides are confusing you or you can’t find the type of source you’re trying to reference within them, we’ll help you use them effectively to find what you need. Just show us what you’re wanting to reference, and we’ll try our very best to help you cite it right!

The Library’s guide on Managing Resources: OSCOLA: This is a good starting point for all things OSCOLA. Here you’ll find tips and links to guides and tutorials.

A-Z guide: A hidden gem of library resources, listing many types primary and secondary sources in alphabetical order. Each type is hyperlinked, and when you click on it a general overview of how to cite that source and a few examples appear.

OSCOLA (4th edition) resources full guide: A very detailed 55-page document, listing all types of sources (except for most international ones) and giving examples of how to cite sources throughout.

Quick Reference guide: An A4 document of how to cite the most common types of sources. A good document to print out and keep somewhere safe so you can always refer back to it!

OSCOLA 2006: Citing International Law guide: This is a separate guide, specifically for citing international law sources. From international treaties, to UN documents, it has it all!

Hopefully this has all helped in some way. But just remember if you’re struggling to cite something, don’t cite it wrongly or remove it from your essay and pretend it never existed! Get help from the super easy resources above!

31st January 20191st February 2019

Where could maps take you?

Sniffer dog in high vis detecting a gas leak

So when does an Animal Science student need to use EDINA Digimap and GIS software? The answer is not all do, but you never know where your dissertation project may take you, and what software may help your research or your presentation or visualisation of results.

Grace’s dissertation took her to Sunderland to road test the country’s first gas sniffer dog. Collaborating with an Earth Science student to help her use the mapping products and with training from the geosciences team in using GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) accurate to 2cm, she plotted the gas leaks and successful finds by her faithful four legged co-worker. The team demonstrated that a dog’s nose is as good conventional gas detection equipment, and could be very helpful with difficult to trace gas leaks.

Sniffer dog in high vis finds gas leak — Sniffer dog, image used with permission from Dr Catherine Douglas, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences.

Digimap illustrating gas leaks detected — Map created by student using EDINA Digimap https://digimap.edina.ac.uk/ and used with permission by Dr Catherine Douglas, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences.

With many thanks to Dr Catherine Douglas, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, for providing this content.

See what is available to you on the Maps Guide and take up opportunities to collaborate or share good practice with other disciplines. You never know where it might lead!

Please note: EDINA Digimap requires registration before use.

29th January 20192nd September 2021

Government Publications: Questions in the House!

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

Surely all MPs are giving us the correct facts?

Take a look at our links to resources for Legislation, Statistics and Official Publications to make sure!

Government publications provide primary information in a variety of subjects. Statistics, White Papers, Parliamentary Bills and a whole range of Official Legislation.

These are a good reliable source of accurate statistics, and can give support to your argument in essay topics across all subjects.

Many government publications are now available online; our Library Guide highlights the useful websites.

Interested in Student Loans or the legal details of part time Employment Contracts?

Details of all UK legal processes can be found at the government website Gov.uk which provides lots of useful information about government services, with an A-Z of departments, agencies and local councils.

Meaningful Vote mean anything to you?

Keep up with the debate and Prime Ministers Questions at this website.

Follow the government shenanigans as it happens!

Democracy Live is the BBC’s new website which offers live and on demand video coverage of the UK’s national political institutions and the European Parliament.

Who stole 40 llbs of butter from Mr Wadsworths wagon in 1778?

You can find out here in The Proceedings of Old Bailey which contains accounts of over 100,000 criminal trial held at London’s criminal court.

So, for more information about finding your way around all aspects of Government Publications please take a look at our helpful video.

20th December 2018

Reading list session for Business School academics

The University Library launched a new reading list system in September 2017. This system is fully embedded within Blackboard, so if you are a module leader you will see a link to the relevant reading list within the module area on Blackboard.

We have also been working on our internal processes, improving how we receive reading lists and manage requests for new books or Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) scans.

You will now find some help pages specifically for reading lists at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/services/reading-lists/

(image taken from Jesper Sehested)

From August 2018 please use our new central email address readinglists@ncl.ac.uk

If you have a word document or module guide which contains your reading lists you can deposit this with us using this form.

The new system also allows academics to log into their reading list within Blackboard and make amendments directly on the system. This means you no longer need to send us an email asking for a new book to be purchased or to ask for CLA scans. Simply follow the instructions on our how to guide.

You can make amendments and additions at any point during the academic year directly onto the list. You can also export your online list into a word document or other teaching materials.

If you wish to attend some training regarding the system, please book a place via louise.gordon@ncl.ac.uk for one of the sessions we’ve arranged below:

Thursday 17^th January 10-11am

Thursday 17^th January 11-12pm

Room 3.03, Business School

8th December 201826th November 2018

Managing your References: EndNote and OSCOLA

“Should I use EndNote as a way to manage my references?” is often a question we get asked. We wish that there was a simple answer to that question, but there isn’t! It all depends on how many references you have, how you like to work and if you are willing to make time to learn how to use EndNote properly. You see, while EndNote is tool that can make your academic life easier (for example, it can help you build a collection of references, insert references into your work and create bibliographies), it will only save you time, if you invest time NOW.

So if you’re using the OSCOLA referencing style and weighing up whether to use EndNote or not, then you might want to consider the following:

You need to have a good grasp of the OSCOLA fundamentals before you even start with EndNote. If you need a refresher on OSCOLA, then check out the OSCOLA referencing guide first before even looking at EndNote.
EndNote will not do EVERYTHING for you. You will still need to manually input and amend your references to ensure your footnotes and bibliography comply with OSCOLA.
Have you got the time to invest in EndNote before using it? We strongly recommend that you make a start using EndNote from the beginning, rather than in the middle or at the end, of your research.
How do you want to use EndNote? Some people decide to use it simply as a storage place for their references and PDFs and leave it at that. Others use it both as a storage place, as well as a tool to help them cite.

Still not sure? Watch the video below to see how to use OSCOLA style and the Cite While You Write feature in Word. Then take a look at the OSCOLA and EndNote guide and see if it’s something you’d like to start using.

Any questions? Have a look at our Frequently Asked Questions to see if it’s been asked before. If not, then do get in touch via Library Help.

7th December 201814th September 2020

Recipe for Referencing: EndNote

What is EndNote?

The official blurb on EndNote is that it is “…the industry standard software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.”

Have you drifted off yet? Don’t – read on!

EndNote takes a little getting used to and we recommend you familiarise yourself with it at the start of your research process. But as Library Staff, we wouldn’t spend a significant amount of time demonstrating and training our academic staff and students on what EndNote is, and how to use it, if we didn’t think it was valuable. It will save you a huge amount of time in terms of writing up your assignments.

Essentially, you can use EndNote to create and organise a personal library of resources relevant to your research. You can import references from Library Search, and a huge range of databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore and Business Source Complete. You can ask EndNote to locate the full-text PDFs of the resources you are going to use in your research, and you can annotate them as you wish too. Did you know you can instruct Google Scholar to import references into EndNote? No? Try it. Finally, if you already have materials stored in your home folder (H:\) then you can attach them to a manually-created reference within EndNote, bringing all your research together in one place.

In addition to organising your references (and this is the clever bit) you can then get EndNote to ‘talk’ to your word processing software, e.g. Microsoft Word, and insert the citations into your work for you in your chosen referencing style, e.g. Harvard at Newcastle, Vancouver, APA or MLA. If you don’t want to do that, then EndNote will also allow you to create an independent bibliography of your references, saving you an awful lot of typing.

Using EndNote

Intrigued? You should be. Take a look at our EndNote Guide. It contains all the introductory information you need, step-by-step workbooks to train yourself on the use of EndNote (the Desktop and Online versions), videos, useful FAQs, and contacts for help, should you need it.

Finally, Newcastle University provides support for EndNote but it is not compulsory to use. You may prefer Mendeley, Zotero, RefWorks or another piece of bibliographic management software. That’s fine, whatever makes your referencing lives easier. Go on, give them a try.