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An Explorer's Spark “There is an explorer’s ‘spark’ that is felt at these events”, said National Geographic CEO Jill Tiefenthaler at the Explorers Festival in London on April 20; it was a spark felt by ...
Tags: HeritageCrime, student journey|05/06/2023
If you're using newspaper content in your work, you may be wondering how to reference it. Is it exactly the same as a journal article reference? Well, it's pretty similar. Here's a short guide. To ...
Tags: APA7, knl, newspapers, referencing, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-news|02/06/2023
Throughout June, Library Services are running a trial for Writefull which provides tools to help with academic writing. Writefull's support includes proofreading, spelling and grammar checking your work. It can also help you craft your ...
Tags: barrington, knl, resource trial, SOMLibrary, study skills|01/06/2023
Everything we own, use or interact with in life starts with a material or materials. But even we in the industry admit that materials are a huge part of what has led us to ...
31/05/2023
'Hubert Ovie Madise, what have you been up to the past ten weeks?' The Cranfield School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE) Group Design Project (GDP) module - that's what! The SWEE GDP module ...
31/05/2023
Every year the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship hosts our annual entrepreneurship conference VentureDay. We are proud to have some small and medium enterprise (SME) owners on staff, including Heni Cloake and Gabriela Pearson, who share ...
Tags: bettany centre, cranfield bettany centre, entrepreneurship, school of management, smallbusiness, Sustainability MSc, sustainable business, VentureDay|30/05/2023
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If you're writing a paper or assignment, you’ll soon realise that there are many rules to citing and referencing. Following our recent post on using quotations in your academic writing, here we aim to answer some ...
Tags: APA7, barrington, harvard referencing, knl, mirc, muscat, paraphrasing, referencing, SOMLibrary|26/10/2021
Data journals are publications whose primary purpose is to expose datasets. They enable the author to focus on the data itself, rather than producing an extensive analysis of the data which occurs in the traditional ...
Tags: barrington, data, data journals, knl, mirc, open data, rdm, research data, research data management, SOMLibrary|01/10/2021
An open access repository is a digital repository where the content is freely available to download and reuse (sometimes with restrictions), where no login or subscription is required. An institutional research repository is a digital repository for the storage ...
Tags: barrington, knl, mirc, OA, open access, repositories, SOMLibrary|02/09/2021
We are excited to announce that the new APA7 Author-Date Referencing Guide has been completed and is available to view on your local Library website: Barrington Library Kings Norton Library Management Information and Resource Centre ...
Tags: barrington, knl, mendeley, mirc, referencing, SOMLibrary|12/08/2021
Have you just had an article accepted for publication? Congratulations! BUT…you need to do one more thing before you celebrate. You need to ensure that you’ve told us here in the Library so that we ...
Tags: barrington, knl, mirc, publishing, ref, research, research publishing, research support, SOMLibrary, webinars|09/08/2021
If you’re looking for a gateway to key economic and social data, then you might like to take a look at the UK Data Service (UKDS). What's included? Offering a wide range of secondary data ...
Tags: barrington, country information, data, economics, gme, knl, macroeconomics, mirc, SOMLibrary, statistics, uk data service, ukds, web-mirc-economics|29/07/2021