Museology

‘Museology’ is an online ejournal published by the University of the Aegean. It examines new ways of presenting museum exhibits and collections. At December 2008 the journal has four issues online, containing full-text papers (mostly in English), with titles such as: ‘The Presence of Visitors in Virtual Museum Exhibitions’; ”An Architecture of Rewards’: A New Poetics to Exhibition Design?’; ‘New Technologies in Museums’; ‘Text for Museums and Exhibitions: A Discussion on Methodology and Applications’; and ‘Ecological Considerations of Museum Education in the Greek Context’.

Soilscapes

The National Soil Resources Institute is offering free access to “Soilscapes”, a 1:250,000 soil dataset covering England and Wales. It provides an excellent basis for understanding many of the environmental conditions affecting any site in England or Wales and the reports are useful for geographers, geologists, archaeologists, environmental scientists, biologists, ecologists and more.

Museological review

Museological review is an online journal edited by research students at the University of Leicester’s Department of Museum Studies. The journal aims to provide a forum for a research community frequently split across many diciplines. Topics covered are as varied as archaeology, cultural heritage, contemporary art, science and anthropology. The website includes the current issue and back issues as PDF files. Issue 12 (2007) includes the proceedings of the AHRC-sponsored conference, ‘Material Culture, Identities and Social Inclusion’, which took place in Leicester early in 2006.

British Museum research

This part of the British Museum website details individual research projects and includes subjects in the fields of archaeology, art history, anthropology, world cultures and museology. Additionally, the website makes available a limited number of fulltext research publications as well as bibliographic details of all the museums publications. The pages also include a link to the Museum’s online collections database of its two dimensional pictorial art holdings, and details of the Museum’s own archives and Paul Hamlyn reference library.

How to study: one for the students!

This short piece from the British Psychological Society’s research blog offers “three unintuitive but very effective ways of studying based on findings from psychological research”. In short: space your study sessions out; text yourself regularly; and summarise and integrate before moving on to the next session. So stop cramming, take a break and find ways to summarise what you have just learnt! This doesn’t just have to be in note form – I loved mind mapping when studying for my degree. It works! (Any excuse to get the coloured pencils out…)

Silbury Hill

An English Heritage site, Silbury Hill web page contains much information, including through the ‘Latest News’ link, regular pdf file updates on the current conservation process.

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers

 

NEW! We now have access to the Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers!

This wonderful new resource has been made available free of charge to higher education institutions in the UK.

It includes a full run of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of nineteenth century British society. 

You can access it via the PERI electronic resources pages for all subjects.

NationMaster – world statistics, country comparisons

NationMaster makes it really easy to compare countries and generate maps and graphs. It brings together data from sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.

The statistics section includes agriculture, crime, democracy, economics, education, environment, food, geography, health, industry, media, religion, sports,… 

Book Buying Event!!!

To all staff…read on!

Dates: 10^th – 14^th Dec 2007Time: 9.30 – 13.00

Venue: Peirson Library

Includes: Opportunity to meet with the Subject Collections Librarians, order texts for your students, ask any collections-related questions, even bring your reading lists along! And…there will be demonstrations of electronic ordering and ‘Slipstream’, the new books alerting service from our main book supplier. 

Please, please come and spread the word as this event has not always been that well attended, but it is a fantastic opportunity to address that old chestnut “The Library never has the books I want…”

Current Archaeology

We now have login details to the Current Archaeology website via a user name and password which will for the next few months give us “unlimited access to all the back issues of Current Archaeology up until the most recent few issues”. It runs from Issue 1 1967.

For  the url, log in and password details please contact the Enquiries Desk