Library Subject Support – Page 18 – News, tips and features from the Library.

5th March 20205th March 2020

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

5th March 202010th March 2020

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

Further information about Books on Time

In Semester One, academic year 2019/2020 we bought the following items after requests from students in GPS.

There were 91 requests from 44 students totalling £4249.13 (43% from Undergraduate, 14% from Postgraduate taught and 43% from Postgraduate Research)

Title	Now in stock
A Brutal Friendship – The West and the Arab Elite	2xlong
A Research Agenda for Housing	1xlong
Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle	1xlong
Animal to Edible	1xlong
Animals, Property and the Law	1xlong
Beautyscapes mapping cosmetic surgery tourism	1xlong, 1xebook
Beyond Gridlock	1xebook
Bloodborne Official Artworks	1xlong
Blur: How to know what’s true in the age of information overload	1xlong
Britannia unchained: global lessons for growth	1xlong
Cameronism: the politics of modernisation and manipulation	1xlong
Cameronism: The Politics of Modernisation and Manipulation	1xlong
China’s Eurasian Pivot: The Silk Road Economic Belt	1xlong
Class Notes Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene	1xlong
Communication, Public Opinion and Globalization in Urban China	1xlong
Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive movement	1xlong
Dance of the Dialectic	1xlong
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism	1xlong
Diverging Mobilities? Devolution, Transport and Policy Innovation.	1xlong
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe	1xlong
Emotions, Technology, and Health	1xlong
Essays on Economics and Economists	1xlong
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight	1xlong
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist workplace	1xlong
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure	3xlong, 1xebook
For Whose Benefit? The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform	1xlong
Gendered Spaces	1xlong
Geopolitics and the Western Pacific: China, Japan and the US	1xlong
Glacier Science and Environmental Change	1xlong
Global Media Ecologies: Networked Production in Film and Television	1xlong
Governing with the News	1xlong
Happy Abortions	1xlong
Hog Wild: The Battle for Workers\’ Rights at the World\’s Largest Slaughterhouse	1xlong
Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism	1xlong
Home: international perspectives on culture	1xlong
How the market in changing China’s news	1xlong
Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts	1xlong
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?	1xlong
Justifying New Labour Policy	1xlong
Kant’s International Relations: The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace	1xlong
Land Matters: Power Struggles in Rural Ireland	1xlong
Literary memory, consciousness, and the group oulipo	1xlong
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t eat Meat	1xlong
Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives	1xlong
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality	1xlong
Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities	1xlong
Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age	1xlong
Negotiating water governance	1xlong
Neoliberal Housing Policy	1xlong
Networking China: the digital transformation of the Chinese economy	1xlong
On the line: slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South	1xlong
Opera: dead or alive	1xlong
Organisational anthropology: doing ethnography	1xebook
Parenting Collection	1xlong
Participatory Research in More Than Human Worlds	1xlong
Perpetration-induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing	1xlong
Philosophical Genealogy I: An epistemological reconstruction of Nietzsche and Foucault’s Genealogical Method	1xlong
Political Street Art: Communication, Culture and Resistance in Latin America	1xebook
Proteinaholic	1xlong
Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformations	1xlong
Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures	2xlong
Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics	1xlong
Routledge Handbook of the Belt and Road	1xlong
Samsung, Media Empire and Family: A power web	1xlong
Scale-sensitive governance of the environment	1xlong
Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawaii and the Philippines	1xlong
Serious Leisure: A perspective for our time	1xlong
Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues)	1xlong
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S Meat Industry	1xlong
Social work, cats and rocket science: stories of making a difference in social work with adults	1xlong
Sociology of Home: Belonging, Community and Place in the Canadian Context	1xlong
Statelessness and Citizenship: A Comparative Study on the Benefits on Nationality	1xlong
Steppenwolf	1xlong
Still the promised city? African Americans and the new immigrants	1xlong
Submarine Landslides: Subaqueous Mass Transport Deposits from Outcrops to Seismic Profiles	1xebook
Television news and the limits of globalisation	1xlong
The Ashgate Research Companion to Media Geography	1xlong
The ironic spectator: solidarity in the age of post-humanitarianism	1xlong
The mandate of heaven and the great Ming code	1xlong
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business	1xlong
The Oxford handbook of the American Congress	1xlong
Think tanks in America	1xebook
Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and Geo-Politics Pathways to Influence, 1st Edition	1xlong
Thinking Straight: The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality	1xebook
Till: A glacial process sedimentology	1xebook
To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World	1xlong
Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age	1xebook
Walking Methods: Research on the Move	1xlong
Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration	1xlong
Who Owns Britain?	1xlong
Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World	1xlong

5th March 20205th March 2020

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

Further information about Books on Time

In Semester One, academic year 2019/2020 we bought the following items after requests from students in ECLS.

There were 46 requests from 23 students totalling £2417.42 (26% from Postgraduate taught and 74% from Postgraduate Research)

Title	Now in stock
Behaviour and Discipline in Schools: Devising and Revising a Whole-School Policy	1xlong
Boosting school belonging	1xlong
Breaking the Male Code: Unlocking the Power of Friendship	1xlong
Codeswitching in the classroom: critical perspectives on teaching learning policy and ideology	1xlong
Cognitive psychology	1xlong, 1xebook
Constructing and reconstructing gender	1xlong
Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction	1xlong
Conversation analysis: studies from the first generation	1xebook
Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use	1xlong
Deutsche und türkische Stereotype Ein inter- und intrakultureller Vergleich	1xebook
Educational measurement	1xlong
Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom/2nd Edition	1xlong
Enhancing the quality of learning : dispositions, instruction, and learning processes	1xlong
Good Gossip	1xlong
Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues	5xlong
Handbook of Research on the Psychology of Mathematics Education: Past, Present and Future	1xlong
How to have a beautiful mind	1xlong
How to research & write a successful PhD	1xlong
Infusing critical and creative thinking into content instruction: a lesson design handbook for the elementary grades	2xlong
Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health	1xlong
Interaction in a Paired Speaking Test: The Rater’s Perspective (Language Testing and Evaluation)	1xlong
Multilevel Modeling Using R	1xlong
Objects, Bodies and Work Practices	1xebook
Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice: Upper-Intermediate B2-C1: With Key	2xlong
Oxford Collections Dictionary for Students of English: A Corpus-Based Dictionary with CD-ROM	1xlong
Past, Present and Future Contributions of Cognitive Writing Research to Cognitive Psychology.	1xlong, 1xebook
Pathways to belonging	1xlong
Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice	1xlong
RAW: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking	1xlong
Reflective Practice in ELT	1xlong
School Belonging in Adolescents: Theory, Research and Practice	1xlong
Serious creativity: how to be creative under pressure	1xlong
Social Theory and Applied Health Research (Understanding Social Research)	1xebook
Stanley Kubrick Seven Films Analysed	1xlong
Strategies for Researching in Higher Education: An Introduction to Contemporary Methods and Approaches (SEDA Series)	1xebook
Studies in language testing 5	1xlong
Teaching and learning in a community of thinking the third model	1xlong
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education	1xlong
The Handbook of Social Research Ethics	1xlong
The International Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing Test	1xlong
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation	1xlong
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education	1xlong
The Sage Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment (2 volume set)	1xlong
Think Skills and Creativity in Second Language Education	1xlong, 1xebook
Understanding advocacy for children and young people	1xlong
Understanding the voices and educational experiences of autistic young people	1xlong

2nd March 202017th January 2020

GUEST POST – LAW EXAM REVISION WEBSITES AND TIPS

Hi I’m Caitlin, and as a final year law student I would say I’m used to exams by now!

I’m going to give you my top 5 resources for exam revision techniques, and top 5 exam resources to get you all set up for May’s exams.

TOP 5 EXAM REVISION TIPS:

Focus on seminars – seminar questions are often set to prepare you for the exam, whether it’s a key case, precedent or the best way to tackle a problem question! It’s definitely worth spending that extra time preparing and doing seminars, so that you can go over these as an exam topic.
Make notes as you go along – you might not always have time but spend an extra hour or so after the lecture making revision notes, and highlighting the key cases/points of law. You’ll thank yourself when it comes to exam time.
Make essay plans – identify the key points of law, and look at past exam papers to see what could be asked.
Identify your weak spots early and go to your tutor/seminarist/lecturer to iron them out now.
Don’t rely on preparing topics – if the exam has 3 questions for you to answer, don’t just learn three topics! Always learn a few more topics than you have to answer.

TOP 5 REVISION RESOURCES:

Elawresources – good case summaries to break down the points of law in really basic terms.
Learnmore: Expand your legal mind – has everything from preparation to moots, to videos and presentations!
Concentrate Revision Guides – these cost around £5-10 each but really break down key points of law.
BAILII – British and Irish Legal Information Institution.
Lecture revision sessions – most lecturers will put these on, but make the most of them by emailing/preparing in advance what topic/area you’d like to see covered.

Good luck in your exams, they’ll be over before you know it!

18th February 202018th February 2020

The Research Reserve and Desktop Delivery Service (DDS)

The exterior of the Research Reserve facility in the Team Valley.

The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed a curious thing on Library Search. Where normally you would expect to see the name of one of the libraries next to an item’s shelfmark, occasionally you’ll see “Research Reserve”.

If you’ve ever wondered just what exactly the Research Reserve is, this is the blog for you, discover here exactly what the Research Reserve can offer you and your studies.

Before an item’s shelfmark is its location. This book is held off-site at the Research Reserve facility in the Team Valley.

The Research Reserve is the Library’s stores, located throughout campus and including a state-of-the-art storage facility in the Team Valley. These facilities allow the Library to keep less-used material for much longer than other academic libraries. These combined storage facilities provide over 29 kilometres of storage space, which is used to house old editions of journals and books which are consulted infrequently.

If you’d like to request items from the Research Reserve facilities, click the “Request Scan/Borrow” button once you’ve located the item on Library Search.

You can loan a variety of materials from the Research Reserve, including: books, theses and journal volumes. These can be requested from Library Search. Simply log in using your campus ID, find the item you are looking for and then click the blue “Request Scan/Borrow” button. You’ll get a choice of pickup locations (either the Walton or Philip Robinson libraries).

There are request forms to complete if you’d like to borrow a thesis or an entire volume of a journal.

Requests can be viewed by going to “My Account” in Library Search and clicking on “My Requests” from the drop down menu. If you’d like to cancel your request, simply click the blue cancel hyperlink (as seen below). You’ll receive an email confirming your cancellation shortly afterwards.

You can cancel requests for Research Reserve items by clicking the blue ‘Cancel’ hyperlink, as shown above.

There is a collection service that runs between the Research Reserve and the various libraries (weekdays only, not on bank holidays) and your request will be generally be fulfilled within 24 hours. Anything requested on a Friday or over the weekend will be delivered on the following Monday afternoon.

Once your item has arrived at your chosen library, you’ll receive an email letting you know it’s available to loan. The item will be kept on the reservations shelves for five days before being returned to the Team Valley, or passed on to the next person in the reservation queue. Items from the Research Reserve are issued in the same way as standard long loan items, either using the self-issue machines or at the service desk. Once you’ve finished with the item, simply return it as normal.

The Desktop Delivery Service (DDS)

The Desktop Delivery Service can also be reached at: http://dds.ncl.ac.uk

The Desktop Delivery Service (DDS) allows you request a scanned article from a journal held in one of the Library’s stores. Articles can be requested via Library Search (same as a book) or by filling out the relevant request form. Please try and include as much detail as possible on your request form. This helps Library staff locate your article and fulfil your request quicker.

You are only able to request one scanned article per journal issue. The scanned article will be delivered to your University email address, where it can be downloaded and printed off. Requests are generally fulfilled within 24 hours, although this may take longer over the weekends or on bank holidays. You have 30 days to download your article before it is ‘archived’ and no longer available.

We do not scan items that are available electronically or can be borrowed.

If you have any other queries about the Desktop Delivery Service, read the FAQs.

Just some of the amazing treasures held at the Research Reserve facility in the Team Valley.

You can also visit the off-campus Research Reserve facility in the Team Valley. Daily access is available by appointment only with the Research Reserve team, weekdays between 10AM and 4PM. Access outside of these hours can be organised given sufficient notice. There is a large car park available at the facility and buses stop nearby.

Full contact information, directions and opening hours for the Team Valley facility are available via the Library website.

17th February 202014th September 2020

Resource in focus: Literary Print Culture

Love books? We hope so. Do you want to know more? Take a journey into the history of the book with Literary Print Culture.

Literary Print Culture: the Stationers’ Company Archive, 1554-2007 is a resource which will show you the primary source documents from the City of London archives. Covering the history of the book, publishing history, the history of copyright and the workings of the early London Livery Company, explore the variety of documents to uncover the story of the role the Stationers’ Company played in the history of the book trade.

An image of the Arms of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers. — Arms of the company [1], c.1700-1900, © The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers

This archive contains a huge range of primary sources, showcasing a diverse range of material from the archive of the Stationers’ Company archive including:

Constitutional Records
Court Records
Membership Records
Financial Records
Trade Records
General Administrative Records
Charities and Property Records

Before you begin, we’d recommend clicking Introduction, in which you can learn more about its scope and features.

An image of the Literary Print Culture resource homepage.

The primary sources are supplemented by contextual essays and other commentary to give you ideas for interpreting and exploiting the archive.

You can browse or search the archive contents by clicking Documents (to browse) or one of the two Search buttons. You can filter your search in various ways, e.g. by document type, year or theme.

For some of the documents in the archive, you can now use handwritten text recognition to enable you to search the handwritten items effectively. Split-screen viewing enables you to view a document and its index simultaneously.

Have you used Literary Print Culture? Please feel free to post your comments and experiences by clicking Leave a comment below.

10th February 202028th January 2020

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.

20th January 202020th January 2020

ASME Digital Collection

Are you studying or teaching mechanical engineering and looking for digital resources? If so, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection may be just what you need.

Freely and easily accessible via Library Search, the ASME Digital Collection provides unparalleled depth, breadth, and quality of peer-reviewed content. This includes access to ASME’s Journals from 1959 – present; ASME’s Conference Proceedings from 2000 – present (with select proceedings back to 1955); and ASME’s ebooks from 1993 – present (with select titles back to 1944).

With powerful search and advanced filtering tools you can use keywords, topics, citations and date ranges to retrieve content simultaneously from different digital resources. This gives you the chance to apply Boolean operators to clearly refine your searches and therefore access more results that are directly relevant to your research.

ASME Digital Collection integrates well with other digital platforms and it can link to Crossref, Google Scholar, and Web of Science to discover citing articles. There are also tools for exporting citations to your preferred reference management software and you can share your links via email and social media. Just like a lot of digital databases it’s easy to set up email alerts to notify you about saved searches and newly published content.

So all that’s left to do is to search for ASME Digital Collection on Library Search, login as a Newcastle University user with Shibboleth, and browse the resources. You’re bound to find something useful!

17th January 202020th January 2020

Resource in focus: ACM Digital Library

ACM Digital Library is a full-text, online collection of all publications by the Association of Computing Machinary, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. Publications run from 1936 to present day, with 2,807,672 publications and 576,689 of these available for download.

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!