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Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies free until end May 2020

Bloomsbury is one the many academic publishers who are making their online content freely available during the Corona Virus
pandemic in order to provide students and researchers with
additional information sources.

Explore the Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies and discover the latest free material.
Please note as working off campus you will need to log in via RAS or from the Bloomsbury website choose ‘Log in’ and then ‘Shibboleth log in page’ on the right hand side. You can then type in Newcastle University in the search box and log in with your university ID and password.

Bloomsbury Architecture Library free until end May 2020

Bloomsbury is one the many academic publishers who are making their online content freely available during the Corona Virus pandemic in order to provide students and researchers with additional information sources.

Explore the Bloomsbury Architecture Library and discover the latest free material. Please note as working off campus you will need to log in via RAS or from the Bloomsbury website choose ‘Log in’ and then ‘Shibboleth log in page’ on the right hand side. You can then type in Newcastle University in the search box and log in with your university ID and password.

Resource on trial: Westlaw student textbooks

We are pleased to announce we have trial access to Westlaw’s student textbooks, in addition to the standard Westlaw All Books collection we use on a daily basis.

The Sweet & Maxwell Academic collection gives access to an additional 19 titles to support studying at home during this pandemic. Titles include Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort, Treitel on the Law of Contract, Megarry & Wade on the Law of Real Property and Elliott & Wood’s Cases and Materials on Criminal Law, among others.

To access this content, log into Westlaw and click on Books in the menu at the top of the page.

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If you know the book you are looking for, search by a title keyword, e.g. tort.

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If you want to browse these student-focused books, use the filters on the left-hand side of the screen. Scroll down and select ‘Sweet & Maxwell Academic’.

We hope you find this additional access to Westlaw useful; please leave feedback or contact libraryhelp@ncl.ac.uk you want to get in touch. The temporary access ends on May 27th 2020.

Gartner Core Reports and Insights

The Gartner CEO has released a statement regarding the work they’re doing to support students and researchers during these challenging times. They have launched the new COVID-19 Resource Center so you can get regular updates on what is happening with the virus.

They are putting an additional emphasis on critical topics including navigating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, business continuity planning, supply chain management, managing a remote workforce, and financial impacts.
In addition, Gartner have expanded access to include relevant content across the enterprise – HR, Supply Chain, IT, Finance and more.

For help and advice on finding information relating to your research, please contact your Liaison Librarian as we remain available to support you remotely.

Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester One 2019/20)

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 2019/2020 we bought the following items after requests from students in SAPL.

There were 132 requests from 55 students totalling £4859.98 (33% from Undergraduate, 23% from Postgraduate taught and 25% from Postgraduate Research)

Title	Now in stock
R 128 by Werner Sobek: Bauen im 21. Jahrhundert, architecture in the 21st century	1xlong
A History of Future Cities	1xlong
A History of Metallography	1xlong
Al Manakh 2: Export Gulf (vol 23)	1xlong
Al Manakh: Dubai Guide, Gulf Survey (vol 12)	1xlong
An Architectural Model	1xlong
An Atlas of Geographical Wonders	1xlong
Angels and wild things : the archetypal poetics of Maurice Sendak	1xlong
Architectural Model Building	1xlong
Architectural Tiles: Conservation and Restoration	1xlong
Architecture Interruptus	2xlong
Architetti-pittori e pittori-architetti	1xlong
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet	1xlong
Autogeddon	1xlong
Automatic for the City Designing for People in the Age of the Driverless Car	1xlong, 1xebook
Between Dystopia and Utopia	1xlong
Biomimetics for Architecture: Learning from Nature	1xlong
Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women	1xlong
Caldecott & Co. notes on books & pictures	1xlong
Calton Hill: And the plans for Edinburgh’s Third New Town	1xlong
Carlo Scarpa: the complete works	2xlong
Cartographies of the absolute	1xlong
Cities, Words and Images	1xlong
Constant: New Babylon	1xlong
Cosmos of Light: the sacred architecture of Le Corbusier	1xlong
Country	1xlong
Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950	1xebook
Cultural Identity and Urban Change in Southeast Asia: Interpretative Essays	1xlong
Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change	1xlong
Design Process in Architecture: From Concept to Completion	1xlong
Designing research for publication	1xlong
Drawing support: murals in the North of Ireland	1xlong
Drone: Object Lessons	1xlong
Dubai, the City as Corporation	29/11/2019
Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle	1xlong, 1xebook
Edinburgh	1xlong
Edinburgh: Mapping the City	1xlong
Experimental Architecture: Designing the Unknown	2xlong
Facing Gaia	3xlong
Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)	1xlong
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming	1xlong
From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History	1xlong
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want	1xlong
Greening modernism: preservation, sustainability, and the modern movement	1xlong
Gross ideas: tales of tomorrow’s architecture	1xlong
Hanoi: City of the Rising Dragon	1xlong
Health and Comfort in House Building	1xlong
Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery	1xlong
Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine – Signed Special Edition	1xlong
Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide	1xlong
How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble A practical guide	1xlong
Hungry City: how good shapes our lives	2xlong
Hungry Planet	1xlong
Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment	1xlong
Illegal Architect	1xlong
Imagined Futures Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics	1xlong
Industrial heritage re-tooled: the TICCIH guide	1xlong
Inside Picture Books	1xlong
interact or die	1xlong
Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City	1xlong
Lace not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques	1xlong
Landscape, Race and Memory: Material Ecologies of Citizenship	1xlong
Leeds: Shaping the City	1xlong
Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital	1xlong
Living with Buildings: And Walking with Ghosts	1xlong
Lo-TEK, Design by Radical Indigenism	1xlong
Lucy Skaer	1xlong
Marginality and exclusion in Egypt	1xlong
Material Imagination in Architecture	1xebook
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England	1xlong
Meat Market: Female flesh under Capitalism	1xlong
Migrant City (Routledge Advances in Ethnography)	1xlong
Model Making: Conceive, Create and Convince	1xlong
Moravia Manifesto	1xlong
New Frontiers of Architecture: Dubai Between Vision and Reality	1xlong
Non-places	14xlong
Notes on the Ventilation and Warming of Houses, Churches, Schools, and Other Buildings	1xlong
O&O Baukunst: View of the interior	1xlong
Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Re-enactment: On Performing Remains	1xlong
Pleasure: the architecture and design of Rockwell group	1xlong
Plunder of the commons	1xlong
Preserving the world’s great cities	1xlong
Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies	1xebook
Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience	1xlong
Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis	1xlong
Resilience and Ageing Creativity, Culture and Community	1xlong
Retail Apocalypse: The Death of Malls, Retailers & Jobs	1xlong
Retail Therapy: Why the Retail Industry is Broken – and What Can be Done to Fix It	1xlong
Rossville Flats: The Rise and Fall	1xlong
sand To Silicon: Achieving Rapid Growth Lessons from Dubai	1xlong
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life	1xlong
Sport, leisure and culture in the postmodern city	1xlong
Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia (Planning, History and Environment Series)	1xlong
The architectural tourist: architectural impressions of Europe	1xlong
The Architectural Tourist: Part 2 (RIAS)	1xlong
The Architecture School Survival Guide	1xlong
The Art of Maurice Sendak	1xlong
The Biophilia Hypothesis	1xebook
The Building Regulations: Explained and Illustrated	1xlong
The Case for Subtle Ar(t)chitecture	1xlong
The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland	1xlong
The Fungi / 3rd edition	1xebook
The Future of Fashion: Understanding Sustainability in the Fashion Industry	1xlong
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors	1xlong
The Mental and the Material	1xlong
The Narrator’s Voice: Dilemma of Children’s Fiction	1xlong
The New Town of Edinburgh: An Architectural Celebration	1xlong
The Picturesque	1xlong
The politics of design in French colonial urbanism	1xlong
The Right to the Smart City	1xlong, 1xebook
The Routledge Companion to Picture-books	1xlong
The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border Book	1xlong
The secret block for a secret person in Ireland	1xlong
The Smart City in a Digital World	1xebook
The Tenement Handbook: A Practical Guide	1xlong
The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh’s Legendary City	1xlong
The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City	1xlong
Timespace and International Migration	1xlong
Tokyo	1xlong
Traducción y traductología introducción a la traductología	1xlong
Trash Culture: Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective	1xlong
UAE and the Gulf: Architecture and Urbanism Now	1xlong
Vancouverism	1xlong
Vexed Texts: How Children’s Picture Books Promote Illiteracy	1xlong
Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion	1xlong
Ways of the Illustrator	1xlong
Whale and the Reactor	1xlong
Why are we the Good Guys?	1xlong
Why Fashion Matters	1xlong
Why look at plants?	1xlong
Why We Can’t Afford the Rich	1xlong
Would you kill the fat man? The trolley problem and what your answer	1xebook

Resource on trial: SAGE Video Collection

SAGE Video is an easily accessible resource with more than 1,600 hours of streaming video collections in the social sciences, created for use across higher education to support pedagogical needs, for undergraduate teaching and learning through to higher level academic research.

SAGE Video combines originally commissioned and produced material with licensed videos to provide a complete disciplinary resource for students, faculty, and researchers.

It covers the following subject areas:

Business & Management
Counseling & Psychotherapy
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Education
Leadership
Media, Communication & Cultural Studies
Politics & International Relations
Psychology
Sociology

The resource includes:

Seminal documentaries on subjects aligned to core curriculum topics
Case studies on classic and newly published research
Tutorials illustrating practical applications of methods and concepts
Interviews with leading experts on key topics
Practitioner demonstrations of theories and techniques
Observational footage of practitioners in real-life professional settings
Short definitions of key terms and concepts

To access this resource, click on the link here.

The trial is available until 16th March 2020. As always, your feedback will be very welcome: you can either email it, or leave a comment on this blogpost.

If you are off-campus, please login to RAS first of all, and then access SAGE Video from a browser within RAS.

Are you preparing a dissertation or project, or will be doing so next academic year?

Make sure you visit our interactive dissertation and project guide. Based on the extensive experience of staff from the Library and Writing Development Centre, this guide includes an interactive search planner, which takes you through the different stages of developing your search strategy, and enables you to create and download your personalised search plan: you can even ask for feedback on it from the Library liaison team.

The search planner is complemented by a project proposal planner, developed by our colleagues in the Writing Development Centre, to help you develop or refine your research proposal.

The guide also points you to further advice on a wide range of relevant skills, to give you advanced knowhow in finding, managing and evaluating information. For example: where to find specialised information resources for your subject area; how to access resources beyond our Library; and methods to keep your literature search up to date over a long period.

It’s easy to navigate, with clear text and short videos throughout. We hope you find it helpful, and if you’d like to spare one minute to suggest any changes, we’d really appreciate it!

Referencing – getting the right ingredients

Referencing

Academic work builds upon the shared ideas, words and findings of other people. However, whenever you use other people’s work you must acknowledge it. This includes sources from books, journal articles, newspapers, video or other sources. You need to make it clear to the readers of your work where you got the information from and who produced it.

Find out more about how to reference and managing your references using our electronic guides.

Remember if you are directly quoting an author you need to put the text in quotation marks and give the page number, e.g. “Referencing is the best” ^{(1 p. 3)}

Referencing Styles

There are a number of different referencing styles which enable you to present your references in a particular format. Harvard at Newcastle is a modified author/date style and the most commonly used. However some people prefer a numbered style e.g. Vancouver or Vancouver superscript

Using EndNote to display the style

The Harvard at Newcastle style has been added to EndNote X9. For more information on using EndNote to manage your references see our EndNote Guide.

Remember when you cite you must be consistent and cite each type of references correctly for your chosen style. For more help with citing references use the online resource Cite them right.

Resource in focus: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics eBooks Collection

Man in suit pressing an icon on a smart home screen

Interested in the field of smart cities and homes, smart farms, intelligent transportation, industry 4.0 or how emerging innovations in technology can support sustainable development?

With over 375 titles to explore, our Intelligent Technologies and Robotics 2019 eBook collection from Springer provides access to both established knowledge and cutting-edge research in:

Automation
Computational Intelligence
Control
Embedded Systems
Information Sciences
Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
Mechatronics
Robotics
Smart Technologies
Big Data
Human-machine Collaboration
Ambient Intelligence

You can access content on any device and download as PDF or ePub to read at any time.

Some highlights from the collection include:

Goswami, A. and Vadakkepat, P. (2019) Humanoid Robotics: A Reference. Dordrecht: Springer

Popkova, E.G., Ragulina, Y.V. and Bogoviz, A.V. (2019) Industry 4.0: Industrial Revolution of the 21st Century. 1st ed. Cham: Springer

Emrouznejad, A. and Charles, V. (2019) Big Data for the Greater Good. Cham: Springer

Keviczky, L., Bars, R., Hetthéssy, J. and Bányász, C. (2019) Control Engineering. 1st ed. Singapore: Springer

Search for individual titles via Library Search or head to SpringerLink to browse by discipline; we also have access to the latest eBook collections for Computer Science and Engineering.

Head to your Engineering or Computing Subject Guides for further useful resources for your subject.

GUEST POST – OFF THE SHELF

Hi! I’m Caitlin, a final year law student and law library aide – and by now I’m used to the stress of exams and deadlines.

I tried the ‘poetry-pick me up’ after going into the common room for a revision break.

I stumbled across Sue (@kind_curious) in the Law School Student Common Room, where she asked, ‘do you want a poem?’. Not really knowing what to expect, I had to overcome a bit of social awkwardness! I was surprised by Sue’s passion and love of poetry, which was clear in the way she spoke about how she’d used poetry in the NHS before and it was what she enjoyed most.

I was asked questions about my current stress levels and how I was feeling with exams, and how I dealt with stress. I told her that when I get stressed I talk even more than usual, which for anyone who knows me sounds like I’m going at a million miles an hour, and she suggested something that would relax me.

I laughed as I saw no signs of chocolate or Netflix – my usual go to relaxation strategies.

Instead she said I needed something like a lavender bubble bath – again I saw no sign of a bubble bath in the Law School and I’d yet to find one in the Dungeon.

She picked out two poems that would make me feel like the relaxing in lavender: she suggested ‘Sonnet’ by Elizabeth Bishop and Shennagh Pugh’s ‘What if This Road’.

What if this road reminded me of Robert Frost’s ‘A Road Not Taken’, and was great for me as a an indecisive person. It was matched perfectly to the questions that Sue had asked me, as I read it as a ‘roll with it’ approach to life, which is definitely needed to cope with exams and deadline stress.

The second poem, Bishop’s ‘Sonnet’, had great visualisation techniques, almost like a meditative poem – which was spot on to turn off the stress and slow everything down!

The experience was a great switch off from deadline stress, and a great use of the 10 minutes which I’d usually scroll through twitter or Instagram. It was something different, and really quite unique and relaxing, which I would definitely recommend to help have a break from any exam and deadline stress!