This month we’re featuring a small selection of new titles purchased to support the area of Politics and International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science.
Democracy and the limits of self-government by Adam Przeworski. (shelfmark: JC421 Prz. Also available as e-book.)
The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order by Cameron G. Thies. (shelfmark: JZ1242 Thi.)
Europe and the Governance of Global Finance edited by Daniel Mügge. (shelfmark: HG186.A2 Eur.)
The 2014 Commonwealth Games start today and we’ve had a look through the wealth of e-books currently available to University staff and students at the Library, to pull together just a small number of titles that look at different aspects of sport related to social and political science.
Sport, culture and society: an introduction by Grant Jarvie with James Thornton looks at the place of sport in contemporary society and culture. It argues that sport is part of our social and cultural fabric, possessing a social and commercial power that makes it a potent force in the world, for good and for bad. It looks at how sport has helped to start wars and promote international reconciliation, while every government around the world commits public resources to sport because of its perceived benefits. Continue reading
Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British suffragette movement and one of the most important feminist public figures of all time, was born today (15th July) in 1858. To celebrate her birthday and work we thought we would give you a taster of women’s studies resources here at University of Edinburgh Library.
1. Take a look at the database Women, War & Society (part of Archives Unbound). The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. This database is a collection of primary source materials sourced from the Imperial War Museum, London that documents the essential contribution women made to the war in Europe. You can access this and other relevant databases at databases for women’s studies.
The Library has recently subscribed to the online version of Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introduction series for the Social Sciences.
The Social Sciences collection includes titles within the following fields of study:
And also includes titles on business, management, economics, education, research and information.
You can access Very Short Introductions via the Databases A-Z list on the Library website. Once into the site you can click on Browse by Subject and click on the relevant subject under the Social Sciences heading. Or you can use the search facility on the site, though full text access is only available to titles within the Social Sciences collections.
Launched in 1995 by OUP, Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas. Since the series was launched it has continued to offer new books each year for students and scholars, and the avidly curious, offering a bridge between reference content and higher academic work. All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a huge range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.
The Library also holds the print copies of many of the Very Short Introduction titles; you can find these in the Library Catalogue.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Library Support for Social and Political Science.
This month we’re featuring a small selection of new titles purchased to support the area of Social Work in the School of Social and Political Science.
Language practices in social work : categorisation and accountability in child welfare by Christopher Hall, Stef Slembrouck and Srikant Sarangi. (shelfmark: HV29.7 Hal.)
Introduction to the psychology of ageing for non-specialists by Ian Stuart-Hamilton (shelfmark: BF724.8 Stu.)
Re-imagining child protection : towards humane social work with families by Brid Featherstone, Sue White and Kate Morris (shelfmark: HV751.A6 Fea.)
Check the Library Catalogue for full details of the books including number of copies, location and availability. Access to e-books is only available to students and staff of University of Edinburgh.
You may find some of these books in the New Books display on the 1st floor of the Main Library, where a selection of new books from all subjects across the University are held. Books on these display shelves can be borrowed as normal.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science.
It’s Canada Day! We thought we’d give you a taster of Canadian library resources here at the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh Library has one of the largest Canadian collections in the UK.
1. Have you seen the America: History and Life database? This bibliographic database for US and Canadian history covers the history of the United States and Canada comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries and covers over 2,000 journals.
2. The letter F … is where you’ll find books on Canadian history in the University of Edinburgh Main Library. That’s on Floor 2, folks. Canada starts at F1001, up to F1200 where we’re into Latin America.
3. Find e-journals like the Journal of Canadian Studies by searching the online library catalogue or e-journals web pages.
4. You can read all about it in Canadian daily newspapers The Globe and Mail and National Post – available online via newspaper database Factiva.
5. You’ll find e-books for Canadian Studies on the library catalogue – like this one, the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.
Need more? Have a look at the Subject Guide to Canadian Studies – our very own one-stop shop for Canadian Studies library resources at the University of Edinburgh.
Christine Love-Rodgers – Academic Support Librarian – Social & Political Science
We’ve recently expanded our e-book collections with the Oxford Handbooks Online collection for Political Science (43 titles). This includes high demand titles such as the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics and the Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions.
The successful negotiation of consortial purchasing agreements across Scottish Higher Education institutions has now given us access to all the collections in Oxford Scholarship Online. We already had access to the Political Science collection, but we now also have access to titles in Sociology and Social Work.
These collections allow unlimited user access and (within copyright) printing and saving of articles, making them good choices for inclusion on student reading lists.
Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – SPS
Need help finding study space?
In order to help ease pressure on study spaces in the Main Library during the exam period, Information Services (IS), EUSA and the University central room bookings team have worked together to identify alternative study spaces in the Central Area.
The map includes information on how far each alternative study space is from the Main Library and also information on opening hours, what kind of study space is available, if pcs and/or cloud printing is available, etc. These spaces are all available from 21 April-9 May 2014, with access to the libraries and open access computing labs mentioned available outwith this period as well.
*The extra study space in the David Hume Tower (DHT) is being opened on weekend of Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 May, 9am-9pm. See map for room details.*
You can access the map at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/students/study-space
The map is also on display in the concourse of the Main Library as you come through the entrance gates (next to the plasma screen).
Outwith the central area there are other site libraries with study space available. You can find a full list of site libraries at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations
Remember there is a free shuttle bus service that runs between the Central Area and King’s Buildings (KB) campus during semester Mon-Fri 8.18am-6.25pm. Shuttle bus timetable: http://www.ed.ac.uk/staff-students/students/shuttlebus
The Main Library is open as always 7.30am-2.30am seven days a week and during revision and exam periods there are restrictions placed on external reference/consultation users access to the building during the day, to ensure that optimal study space is available to University of Edinburgh students.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science.
BiblioRossica is a portal for academics and scholars that offers expertly selected collections devoted to the most relevant areas of modern Russian, Jewish, Eastern European and Eurasian Humanities.
As an ebook platform it offers over 10,000 scholarly publications, mostly in Russian, from leading Russian academic presses, including NLO, Indrik, OGI, and Nestor-Istoriia, as well as recent English publications in Russian, Slavic, and Jewish studies from Academic Studies Press and Central European University Press. Subjects cover political and social science, linguistics, literature, art, history, philosophy and religion.
You can access BiblioRossica during the trial period from www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-trials
There is a feedback form available and we would welcome feedback as this a key part of making a case to subscribe to resources like this.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science
Trial access is available until 24 May for University of Edinburgh users to eHRAF – the online database of Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a non-profit research organization at Yale University. This database covers:
* Ethnographic materials on all aspects of cultural and social life
* Western & non-Western cultures, ethnic minorities, indigenous people, and archaeological traditions
* Subject indexing at the paragraph-level for efficient retrieval of information
The companion database eHRAF Archaeology focuses on in-depth descriptive documents of archaeological traditions from around the world.
Support materials are available at http://hraf.yale.edu/resources/guides.
Access the trial via the link at : http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-trials. Please give us your feedback as this is a key part of making a case to subscribe to resources like this.
Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – Social & Political Science