Library Newsletter June 2012

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June 2012

Module coordinators - please send us your reading lists!

Lecturers - packing for your holiday, or off to do research? Please don't forget tosend the Library your module reading lists before you go! As we aim to have in stocka copy of everything recommended on undergraduate reading lists, we would reallyappreciate receiving Semester 1 lists from you before July 31. We will check them,make sure everything is in stock or on order, and transform them into electronic

format using our new Talis software -they will look like this. We will then send youthe link so that you can pass the electronic lists on to students via your Schoolwebpages or wherever you like. They will allow readers to link either to the item inSAULCAT, or to the full-text of the article or book if available. Please send your [email protected].

Student Haiku competition - click here for details

New Resources

Business Source Premier

Economics and Financestudents will be pleased toknow that we now haveaccess to theBusiness

Source Premierdatabase,which contains the full-text ofmore than 2,100 journalsback to 1965. Its coverageincludes marketing,management,accounting, finance andeconomics. Additional full-text content includes marketresearch reports, country
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It's your Library survey - prize draw winner

Thank you to all 1,340 people who responded to ourrecent survey on the Library environment. IR studentJenni Muttonen was the lucky winner of a100 Amazon voucher for her participation. Thesurvey yielded some interesting results. Thechange people appreciated most was the Library'slonger opening hours (32.8%), followed by theLibrary Cafe (17.9%) and the self-return system(15.7%). Of the Library's three levels, most peoplepreferred to work on Level 2 (37.9%) and a slightmajority (56%) felt there was no need to introduce aquiet study zone on that Level - "the space works wellas it is." Asked whether we should allow hot and colddrinks everywhere, but restrict ALL food to the Cafeonly, or leave things as they are (hot food in the Cafeonly, cold snacks on Level 2 only, hot and cold drinkson all Levels), a majority 80.6% preferred to leave thefood policy as it was.

Thank you to all who responded. A fuller report isavailable here.

New to our Open Access Repository...

reports, company profiles andSWOT analyses. "Theindustry's most popularbusiness research database,"says our supplier EBSCO.

EIU Country Data

We now have the EconomistIntelligence Unit's CountryData, a comprehensivedatabase of economicindicators and forecasts. Itcovers 317 series for 201countries as well as 45regional aggregates from1980 onwards, plusforecasting for five years.

We also subscribe to theEIU's Market Indicators andForecasts, which is a"powerful database ofeconomic, demographic,consumption and industrydata on 60 major countriesand 11 regional aggregatesback to 1990." We hopeyou find these useful!

Special CollectionsAcquisition

The Special CollectionsDepartment is delighted tohave purchased 15 wonderfulartist's books byJeanJohnstone, a Fife-based artistwho creates hand-madebooks in collaboration withScottish and internationalpoets including JohnBurnside, Kathleen Jamie,John Glenday, MichaelLongley and AnnaCrowe. Each work is lovinglycrafted from fine handmadepapers sourced from around
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The Library's Digital Repository is not just for theses (although there are 916 of themin there!) It also hosts the following:

A series ofresearch monographs for the Centre for French History & Culture

Atechnical report series for the Centre for Research into Ecological & EnvironmentalModelling (CREEM)

Reports of the Sustainable Development Commission in collaboration with the StAndrews Sustainability Institute (SASI)

Selected Special Collections material

If you have an article, report or working paper which would be suitable for OpenAccess publication in the Repository, please contact the Repository Team: JanetAucock (Repository Manager),Jackie Proven(Research Publications and OpenAccess, orDavid Collins(e-Theses). A full listing of the Repository's content isavailablehere.

Lighting the Past: rare books cataloguing project launched

The Department of Special Collections is home toa world-class collection of over 200,000 early andrare printed books. Despite best efforts in the past,however, only about a third of these are availablein the Library's online catalogueSAULCAT.Thisleaves many researchers and students unaware ofthe potential resources available to them. On June13 the Library is therefore launching an excitingnew project - Lighting the Past - to see over100,000 records from its rare book collectionsadded to SAULCAT in the next 10 years. With animpressive average of 3,000 research visits peryear to Special Collections, the Department hopesthat increased awareness of its superb resourceswill result in even more calls on its materials. NewRare Books Cataloguer Christine Megowan looksforward to the task!

Looking for a thesis?

the world, with exquisite penand ink drawings orcopperplate etchings by theartist. The books are housedin handsome wooden boxesor sculpted paper containers,or wrapped in beautifulsilks. Jean Johnstoneproduces only a few copies ofeach poem, and she sellsonly to libraries. We lookforward to collecting herfuture fusions of art andliterature.

New books

Books added to stock thismonth include:

Mus White, From themundane to the magical:photographically illustratedchildren's books 1854-1945(1999)

G.H. Brown, The study ofmedieval manuscripts inEngland(2010)

John Armstrong, The impactof technological change: theearly steamship inBritain.(2011)

See more via ourNew Books

RSS feed.
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Finding the full-text of a thesis has never beeneasier. We now subscribe toProquest'sDissertations and Theses Full-textdatabase, whichcontains details of over 2.3 million internationaldissertations and theses from 1861 to the present,with over a million available free as full-text,

downloadable PDFs. If you're looking for a UKthesis, go to ourIndex to Thesesdatabase. Whenyou've found the thesis you want, follow the links totheBritish Library's EThOS Serviceto download ororder a free digital copy. Both databases (plusaround 300 others!) can be found on ourA-ZDatabases webpage.

Read more about the Library's activities on our blogs:

@ the library: e-Resources Blog;

Echoes from the Vault: Special Collections Blog ;

Redevelopment Blog;

Open Access Blog

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