Recommended textbooks for 2013-2014 academic year

If you were teaching a course in 2012-2013 you will be receiving an email soon from the Library’s recommended reading team. This will ask you to confirm that any textbooks you recommended will remain the same for next year.

Can you please respond to this email one way or the other? If you are no longer teaching the course (or it is no longer running) can you please let us know? If we don’t receive a response then it is assumed that the course is no longer running and we will not check for new editions or e-book editions.

If you do know who has taken over the course this information would be useful so that we can update our records and get in touch with the right person.

Thanks for your co-operation on this matter.

Summer term projects and dissertations – support from the Library

If you are a student (or you have students) working on a project, dissertation or essay between now and the end of summer and you find that we don’t have access to a particular book title please get in touch with me.

We can purchase print titles or e-book editions depending on what the publisher has made available. If we don’t have access to a journal paper try our Document Delivery service.

If you are having problems getting access to a resource, also check out our accessing e-resources web pages. And the mathematics and physics subject pages for resource information. Any access issues we are having will be highlighted on this blog.

If anyone has any questions, I hold ‘office hours’ in the Mathematics Learning Centre and Blackett 313 each week, and at other times can be found on Level 1 of the Central Library. See my professional web page for details.

There are also librarians available in the Central Library on Thursday afternoons if you need help.

Thanks,

Jenny

Twitter for Researchers workshop

Friday 14 June 10:30 – 12:00, South Kensington campus, Central Library, Training Room 1

Twitter is a microblogging service that asks you to tell the world what you are doing in 140 characters or less, and can be used to build up a network of like-minded people. By selecting other Twitter users to follow, you can build up contacts across a wide range of interests. Many in the academic and research communities use Twitter for professional communication of their research, pointing followers to notable items such as papers, articles, news stories, and blog posts, as well as links to other resources, photos and other media.

This session, run by Andrew Day (Library Education and Research Support team) and Jenny Evans (Library Faculty Support team) is aimed at PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, academic staff and postgraduate taught course students who have had little or no experience of using Twitter.

If you have any questions please email Jenny.

If you would like to attend please email Andrew Day to book your place.

Writing for Wikipedia: an introductory workshop

This 90 minute workshop, led by John Cummings (Wikimedian in Residence at the Natural History Museum and Science Museum) and other Wikimedia trainers will involve a short general introduction to the Wikipedia projects and a discussion of how they are created and developed, followed by a more in-depth practical session involving learning the basics of editing and engaging with other contributors.

During the session, Dr Steve Cook (Senior Teaching Fellow, Biology, Imperial College London) will talk about how he uses Wikipedia with undergraduate students and Professor Henry Rzepa (Professor of Computational Chemistry, Imperial College London) will also talk about his work with Wikipedia.

This workshop is aimed at academic staff, researchers, postdocs, teaching fellows, learning technologists and postgraduate research students.

Details:

Thursday 6 June 2013

10.00am – 11.30am

Central Library, South Kensington campus, Training Room 1

To book:

If you would like to attend please email Andrew Day to book your place. Joining instructions will be sent on booking.

For further information email Jenny Evans.

Blogs, Twitter, wikis and other web-based tools: Collaborating and building your online presence

The Library is running our web 2.0 for researchers programme in June 2013, aimed both at PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

This course gives participants the opportunity to consider the implications of using web 2.0 tools and technologies (also known as social media, social software, new or emerging technologies) on their online (and consequently research) identity as well potential legal and ethical impacts. It also enables the exploration of social media / online tools and their relevance to research and related activities.

The programme features both a face to face workshop (including content on your online research identity and legal and ethical issues) as well as two optional modules to be completed online, to be selected from the following content themes:

• blogs
• multimedia
• networks and networking
• online collaborative tools (including Prezi, Dropbox, Google Drive and Slideshare)
• RSS
• social bookmarking citation and reference management
• wikis
• evaluation tools (for measuring the impact of social media)

The workshop will take place on Friday 7 June and the online modules will need to be completed by the end of June. It is expected that approximately 4 hours will be needed to complete the programme.

Participants will be encouraged to contribute to a group blog set up for recording experiences and views on the topics covered by the programme.

Booking details

If you are a PhD student, the course counts as part of the Graduate School Professional Skills Development programme. For more information and booking details please see the Graduate School website

If you are postdoctoral researcher then email Andrew Day to book your place.

Along side the programme we will be running a Twitter for Researchers and a Mendeley for Researchers workshop. We will also be introducing a new workshop – An introduction to writing for Wikipedia. These will all take place in June. We will post details on this blog (and on the library website) when they are confirmed.

For further information email Jenny Evans

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Access restored to AIP Digital Archive

Our access to the AIP Digital Archive has now been restored.

 

Interruption to access to AIP Digital Archive

We have made the decision to renew our access to the AIP Digital Archive (content published between 1930 – 1998)  however due to various delays we have temporarily lost access to this content.

If you need access to a paper from this collection please submit a Document Delivery request.

Any questions/concerns please get in touch.

New Physics books in the library April 2013

Photo credit: Tanya Lloyd

Here’s the latest list of new books which have been added to the library’s Physics collection.

As ever, if you have any suggestions for books that you’d like the library to purchase, please email Jenny.

Physics New Books April 2013

New Maths books in the library April 2013

Photo credit: Layton Thompson

Here’s the latest list of new books which have been added to the library’s Maths collection.

As ever, if you have any suggestions for books that you’d like the library to purchase, please email Jenny

Maths New Books April 2013

EIKON: new library database

EIKON

EIKON is a Thomson Reuters database containing current and historical price data, fundamental data broker research, and news by market, region or instrument. It includes 50 years of historical economics, price and equities data, as well as charting and analysis tools.

EIKON is available on two PCs on level 2 of the Central Library. If you want to book to use it go to ‘book a room’ on the Library website.

Please note this resource is for use by Imperial College students and staff only.

For any questions on EIKON or other company and financial databases please contact the Business Librarian Heather Lincoln: email Heather.