Emerald Management Xtra has arrived!

 

Excellent news for all those staff and students interested in management and business! The management journal collection, Emerald Management Xtra is now available through the Library from Resources Online (student access; staff access). The collection, described as ‘the largest, most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed management journals’ includes 150 full text, scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in 22 subject areas across business and management.

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…)

Business Source Premier

 

Wonderful news – we now have Business Source Premier!

It works like Business Source Elite, so staff and students will find it looks familiar. It is “the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.” It also includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

You can access it from the usual PERI web page and will need your Athens password. (Students can access it directly once they have logged on.) Here’s a reminder of how you get there:

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…”

New Internet Tutorial for ICT

 

Intute have revamped their ICT Internet tutorial. Lots of handy tips for useful websites and good ways to search the Internet. Highly recommended.

Computer Education

Computer Education is now available online on the NAACE website, starting with the Autumn 2006 issue. Contact the Enquiry Desk for the username and password to log in to the full text.

It is no longer available as a printed journal – the last printed issue in the Journals Area is June 2006.

Videogame Style Guide – review copies available

The publisher of the forthcoming book The Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual (Power Play Publishing, 2007)  now has free inspection/review copies available to working games industry professionals and Game Studies academics.

Blended Learning newsletter available online

LINK 17 Blended Learning is the December 2006 newsletter from HEA Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Network.

It includes an article on blogging to keep academics informed, written by me, so is definitely worth a look!