Understanding a bibliography should not be a game of Cluedo

I have some sympathies with the article by Alec Gill in the Times Higher advocating a reduction in the number of citation styles available.  He says “Generally, students cannot see the logic behind the petty rules and the permutation of punctuation (brackets, underlinings, single quotation marks, italics, and commas dotted here and there).”
He proposes a  method building on [...]

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Your Library – your say!

 
If you could change ONE THING about the Library, what would it be?
If the Library had more space, how should we use it?
Now’s your chance to have your say about the Library. Please take a few minutes to visit our survey at: http://picture-box.lboro.ac.uk/Public/UCCASS/survey.php?sid=76 before 15 May 2009.

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Bring Maths to life and win prizes!

The Maths, Stats & OR Network of the Higher Education Academy is inviting entries into its Plus new writers award.
If you can explain a mathematical topic or application in an engaging way for a general audience, then you could win an iPod, a subscription to the journal Nature, and signed copies of popular maths books.
Entries [...]

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Upgrade to Web of Science / Web of Knowledge

One of our readers has reported problems accessing the Web of Science following the recent upgrade. A note from the provider advises the following: “For any users who experience problems with access to service since the upgrade we advise clearing cookies”.

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Science: so what?

What do Bill Bryson, Charley Boorman and Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall have in common?
They are part of a government campaign to improve the public’s perception of science. The aim is to shift public opinion away from science being “remote, elitist and irrelevant” to why science is important to all of us in our everyday lives.
Why is [...]

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Top science stories in 2008

Cath O’Driscoll writing in the Chemistry & Industry magazine has produced a pick of the chemical science stories for 2008. These include the potential for a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak and the finding of iron-based superconductors. For more top stories of 2008 see the 12 January issue of the magazine.
Aside from chemical science, what research [...]

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Science fact or science fiction – what gets your vote?

2008 is a good year to get in to (or rediscover) science reading. Earlier in the year the Royal Society continued its traditional Science Books prize. In recognition of this the Science Team mounted a display in the Library, some of which is captured below.

More recently the Big Science Read campaign has been launched allowing [...]

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Periodic table of videos

The University of Nottingham has produced a set of videos about each of the elements on the periodic table.
To view the introductory video click on play below:

How useful was this for you? Do you know of any other videos in your field? If so, share them here!

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‘Science for All’ – display and competition

The Team has mounted a display – ‘Science for All’ in the Library running until late June. The display includes examples of the short-listed and long-listed books for the Royal Society Science Books prizes for 2008. Also, in the display are some examples of scientific information in non-book format including CDs, DVDs and videos.
And now, [...]

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