New APA 6th edition output style in RefWorks

When RefWorks users who use the APA style login to complete a bibliography, it is now possible to use the latest, 6th edition. To do so, Click on the tab marked Bibliography and next to the drop-down menu marked Output Style select Output Style Manager. Select APA 6th edition and Add to Favorites.
Please beware, though! [...]

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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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Obtaining electronic UK Theses: The EThOS service

UK PhD theses are now available to search, order and download using the British Library ’s Electronic Thesis Online Service (EThOS). A list of participating institutions is available here
You do not need to register or login to search the database, but if you want to order material you will need to register and create [...]

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National Science and Engineering Week

National Science and Engineering Week runs from 6-15 March. To celebrate it we’ve set  up a display showcasing some of the research work and textbooks published by members of the Science and Engineering faculties. In addition to books you’ll see artifacts from pots to pillows and from doodles to didgeredoos. You can view the display [...]

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Hail all scientists

Tomorrow (12 February) sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Naturally, (pardon the pun) this event is attracting widespread attention.
Of course it is very appropriate to celebrate great scientists, but what about the equally brilliant but much lesser known variety? Yesterday (10 February) tucked away in the last few minutes of the [...]

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Changes in the Library

Returning staff and students to Loughborough University will notice big changes when they come into the Library for the first time this academic year.  The entrance to Level 3 has been changed with a new Reception Desk, as you come in, and a streamlined information desk, which faces you as you walk [...]

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Peer to Patent

The following has recently been announced by the Peer to Patent initiative:
 
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has opened the patent examination process for online public participation. With the consent of the inventor, the Peer-to-Patent: Community Patent Review pilot, developed by the New York Law School Institute for Information Law and Policy in [...]

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PsycARTICLES and Patbase now available

Two new databases have been added in recent weeks which will appeal to the Science community.
 
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. Journals Covered : [...]

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Do you need some help deciding how many course textbooks to order?

Sometimes when you are compiling reading lists for your students it is hard to know how many copies to order from the Library. This multiple copy formula might help. 
Other factors to bear in mind are: book prices (we obviously cannot buy 10 copies of a text costing £90 each whatever the model suggests); likely demand [...]

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Patbase trial

With the growing emphasis on enterprise across the university, there might be greater interest in finding patents and securing intellectual property here at Loughborough University. We’ve therefore arranged a trial of Patbase, a searchable patent database covering over 30 million patent families with historical information dating back to the early 1900s. Available via username and [...]

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