Books added to the Library by students in NUBS (Semester One 2023/24)

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 One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 16 requests in NUBS totalling just over £1851.

A Guide to Port Sunlight Village: Third edition
Adaptive Cloud Enterprise Architecture
From Attention to Meaning: Explorations in Semiotics, Linguistics, and Rhetoric
Guidebook – Port Sunlight
Inside the Video Game Industry: Game Developers Talk About the Business of Play
Irresistible: the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked.
Managing the Customer Experience: Turning Customers Into Advocates
Narratives We Organize By
Parkrun: An Organised Running Revolution
Parkrun: Much More Than Just a Run in the Park
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
The better Angels Of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative, And Moral Identity Among Men Of The American Upper Class
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The Kindness of Strangers: Philanthropy and Higher Education
The Pornography of Meat
Virtuous Giving: Philanthropy, Voluntary Service, and Caring

Books added to the Library by students in NUBS (Semester Three 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 Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 10 requests in NUBS totalling just over £1293

Culture Place and Health: Critical Geographies
Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management.
Fundraising and Institutional Advancement: Theory, Practice, and New Paradigms
Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
International Handbook of Diversity Management at Work. Country Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment
Japanese Management Tradition and Transition
Loved : how to rethink marketing for tech products
Philanthropy in Education: Diverse Perspectives and Global Trends
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education

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Policy Commons

After a successful trial in October 2023, we are delighted we have managed to secure a subscription to Policy Commons. We received some great feedback from academics about how the platform would fit in with teaching and learning in Schools including :

“This is an absolute treasure, especially for my research. I am also sure it will be an invaluable teaching resource for the environmental law module starting next semester.”

“There are huge amounts of so-called ‘grey’ policy literature that students working and being taught policy-oriented skills and modules cannot access because it is fragmented, hosted by various institutions and the organisations which commissioned such reports. Policy Commons makes the universe of policy-relevant literature, which is often the cutting edge of a field and more up-to-date than academic literature, accessible to students through just one easily searchable source. This is a highly recommended resource, which improves student skills, research and their written work”.

So if you aren’t familiar already, the database is one resource to locate publications from policy experts, NGO’s and think tanks. Publications include :
-The Council of Europe
-Environmental Law Institute
-European Parliamentary Research Service
-Center for Security Studies
-OECD
-World Bank Group
-United Nations
-International Institute for Environment and Development

This short video from Policy Commons tells you a little bit more

To access Policy Commons follow this link via Library Search

Upgrade to Business Source Ultimate

For many years we have subscribed to a business database from EBSCO. This provides access to a range of content including journal articles, trade pieces, industry reports and company information. We have just signed for an upgrade to move from Business Source Complete to Business Source Ultimate.

EBSCO have included a title list which is available here.

We are delighted to expand our content from this supplier and more importantly the terms of the licence now allow us to directly link to articles from the core journal, Harvard Business Review from our online reading lists (available in Leganto).

We are currently updating our help materials to reflect the name of the expanded product.

The search page and functionality remain the same once you enter the database.

You’ll just notice the name change along the top

Resource trial – Policy Commons

We are trialling Policy Commons in October 2023. The database is a one stop shop to locate publications from leading policy experts, NGO’s and think tanks. Useful for students, staff and researchers across all disciplines it includes publications from across the globe including:
-The Council of Europe
-Environmental Law Institute
-European Parliamentary Research Service
-Center for Security Studies
-OECD
-World Bank Group
-United Nations
-International Institute for Environment and Development
To find out more see video below.

To access Policy Commons follow this link via Library Search

To send us your comments or feedback please add to this post or email us.

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.

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

Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions

In the library we love these short guides from OUP who provide a variety of great concise books on lots of different topics.

We’ve recently updated this collection so it includes to most recent publications from OUP published in 2022 and 2023.

This series offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects—from artificial intelligence to folk music to medical ethics—in 35,000 words or less.

Each one of these big little books provides intelligent and serious introductions written by experts who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make even the most challenging topics highly readable.

On our catalogue, Library Search you can search by keywords like in the screenshot below so “very short introduction” and browse through or add in Oxford to add in results for that publisher. Re-sort your results to “newest” if you’d like to browse through the latest ones added to our collection.

Or visit the OUP Very Short Introductions website directly and then filter using the subject categories. OUP have arranged the titles under headings such as Medicine and Health, Arts and Humanities, Law, Social Sciences

if you are accessing off campus then once you’re on the OUP site please click “sign in” (on the left hand menu and select Newcastle University from the list to enter your Campus ID and password.)

Oxford University Press also have a podcast you can subscribe to about titles and topics in this collection.

Free training on Business Resources on Bureau Van Djik products

The University subscribes to a variety of different company databases from Bureau Van Djik such as FAME, Orbis Europe and Orbis Asia Paciific.

The provider is offering some free online training which can booked directly with them. For sessions related to the subscriptions we have the dates are :

Orbis on the 12th of June at 1.30pm (London time) Book here

FAME on the 13th of June at 10am (London Time) Book here

We have additional help materials on our resource guide if you want to learn more about these databases.

Resource Trial – Women’s Magazine Archive I-III

Women’s Magazine Archive, Collection I, II and III

We will be trialling all three Women’s Magazine Archives from Monday 27th February. This collection includes classic 19th and 20th century titles such as Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal and Parents. For those more mature students and colleagues you can enjoy a trip down memory lane to look at Cosmopolitan, Flare, Seventeen and Essence magazines. The collections cover a range of 29 to 123 years and will be useful for those researching a range of topics such as social history, gender studies, media history and more.

Each magazine in the collection is scanned cover to cover in high resolution to give a good level of detail for each page.

To access the collection follow the link here
If you are off campus follow the link and you may be asked to authenticate using your Newcastle University computer ID and password.

The trial ends on 29th March 2023 To help us evaluate it, please email us your feedback, or leave a reply on this blog.