Explore more with 30% off popular science titles from Oxford University Press.
Updated for 2010 to include the latest publications, the new Blackwell interactive science catalogue features the best in new and classic science titles.
Browse the catalogue online at: http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/extracts/oup/ops2009blackwell/index.htm
Let us know if you would like us to purchase anything for the Balfour Library collections!
Monday 25 January 2010
Monday 18 January 2010
Oxford University Press biology catalogue 2010 now available online
A PDF version of the Oxford University Press Biology Catalogue 2010 is now available to download from: http://www.oup.co.uk/academic/science/biology/biocat/
Highlights are:
Highlights are:
- Ant ecology, edited by Lori Lach, Catherine Parr, and Kirsti Abbott
- Modeling evolution: an introduction to numerical methods, by Derek A. Rolf
- Bioinvasions and globalization: ecology, economics, management, and policy, edited by Charles Perrings, Harold Mooney, and Mark Williamson
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Lent Term Research Skills Programme
The Research Skills Programme is designed to support readers working at every level, from undergraduate to researcher, covering a variety of topics in formats ranging from bookable practical sessions to one-to-one help.
Details of this term's sessions at the University Library are now available at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Courses/Descriptions.html
Most sessions do not require booking a place, but some do, as indicated below.
Sessions include:
Details of this term's sessions at the University Library are now available at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Courses/Descriptions.html
Most sessions do not require booking a place, but some do, as indicated below.
Sessions include:
- How to do a literature search, 20 or 29 January, 11:30. (Practical session: please book a place)
- How not to plagiarise, 25 January, 14:30
- Get cited: publishing your thesis with DSpace, 27 January, 14:30
- Taming Google: making the web work for you, 18 February, 14:30
- Welcome to the University Library, 45-minute library tours designed to help you find your way around. (Book a place, there are at least one or two sessions per week).
Library purchasing - tell us what you want!
You may not be aware of it, but the Balfour Library encourages recommendations from you all for the purchase of books and other media for our collections.
We welcome recommendations from postgraduates, researchers and teaching staff for purchases which are relevant to teaching and research that takes place in the department, especially text books provided on reading lists, as well as purchasing material to develop particular subject areas. Items recommended for purchase should ideally be of benefit to a range of people in the department.
Books: Would you like more text books, or those with additional teaching materials included? How about guides on how to write about science or do your PhD? Do you have a particular series in mind that would complement our collections?
DVDs or CDs: Would you like to be able to borrow a DVD or CD from the library? We do keep any that accompany text books in the library office for you to borrow but there might be other ones useful to you?
Donations: Are there any books that you own that you don't want anymore and think would be really useful for the library to have? Recent titles are preferred.
Ebooks: The library contributes funds annually to the ebooks@cambridge team and we can recommend titles for purchase by them (for undergraduate teaching purposes, preferably Part I, only). I can ask them if particular books are available in ebook format.
Ejournals: Purchasing of new ejournals titles is achieved through a central fund that all libraries in the university contribute to. We can recommend new titles for purchase on your behalf or you can do so yourself, via the 'Recommend an ejournal title' form online at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/help/index.php Recommendations are considered for purchase a couple of times per year usually.
Eresources and trials of eresources: Purchasing of new eresources (e.g. not an ejournal or ebook) is generally achieved through University Library funds. We can recommend new eresources for purchase on your behalf or you can do so yourself, via the 'Recommend an eresource' form online at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/help/index.php We can also arrange trials to be set up for eresources you consider to be useful.
Complimentary library services and collections: Remember that if a particular journal article or book is not available in Cambridge we can request it, for a subsidised fee, from the British Library. We also have a collection of over 100,000 reprints from the 19th and 20th centuries in the library. We have many of the theses written by postgraduate students based in this department.
We have an annual donation of a few hundred pounds to spend from Cambridge University Press, and an 18% discount from Heffers. Have a look at our 'Books and ebooks' website at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/books.html to find links to various booksellers. We also have many booksellers' catalogues in the library office that we can lend you.
How to tell us what you want!
I can take recommendations by email at cmc32@cam.ac.uk or we have recommendation cards available in the library office. For books and ebooks, please provide details of the author, title, date of publication, publisher, ISBN, price, who the book will be useful for and why. For ejournals please see the online form I have mentioned above and let me have those details.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Clair
We welcome recommendations from postgraduates, researchers and teaching staff for purchases which are relevant to teaching and research that takes place in the department, especially text books provided on reading lists, as well as purchasing material to develop particular subject areas. Items recommended for purchase should ideally be of benefit to a range of people in the department.
Books: Would you like more text books, or those with additional teaching materials included? How about guides on how to write about science or do your PhD? Do you have a particular series in mind that would complement our collections?
DVDs or CDs: Would you like to be able to borrow a DVD or CD from the library? We do keep any that accompany text books in the library office for you to borrow but there might be other ones useful to you?
Donations: Are there any books that you own that you don't want anymore and think would be really useful for the library to have? Recent titles are preferred.
Ebooks: The library contributes funds annually to the ebooks@cambridge team and we can recommend titles for purchase by them (for undergraduate teaching purposes, preferably Part I, only). I can ask them if particular books are available in ebook format.
Ejournals: Purchasing of new ejournals titles is achieved through a central fund that all libraries in the university contribute to. We can recommend new titles for purchase on your behalf or you can do so yourself, via the 'Recommend an ejournal title' form online at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/help/index.php Recommendations are considered for purchase a couple of times per year usually.
Eresources and trials of eresources: Purchasing of new eresources (e.g. not an ejournal or ebook) is generally achieved through University Library funds. We can recommend new eresources for purchase on your behalf or you can do so yourself, via the 'Recommend an eresource' form online at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/help/index.php We can also arrange trials to be set up for eresources you consider to be useful.
Complimentary library services and collections: Remember that if a particular journal article or book is not available in Cambridge we can request it, for a subsidised fee, from the British Library. We also have a collection of over 100,000 reprints from the 19th and 20th centuries in the library. We have many of the theses written by postgraduate students based in this department.
We have an annual donation of a few hundred pounds to spend from Cambridge University Press, and an 18% discount from Heffers. Have a look at our 'Books and ebooks' website at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/books.html to find links to various booksellers. We also have many booksellers' catalogues in the library office that we can lend you.
How to tell us what you want!
I can take recommendations by email at cmc32@cam.ac.uk or we have recommendation cards available in the library office. For books and ebooks, please provide details of the author, title, date of publication, publisher, ISBN, price, who the book will be useful for and why. For ejournals please see the online form I have mentioned above and let me have those details.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Clair
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Balfour Library unstaffed on Friday 8th January 2010
Library staff will not be available on this date due to their attendance at a conference.
The PCs and photocopiers will be available for use however, during normal library opening hours only. The scanner and the self-issue facility will be available 24/7, as usual.
The PCs and photocopiers will be available for use however, during normal library opening hours only. The scanner and the self-issue facility will be available 24/7, as usual.
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