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We are delighted to announce that MIRC has reopened and the book collection has been successfully restored to the shelves. And even better, you can now borrow, return and renew books yourself using the new ...
Tags: books, knl, mirc, SOMLibrary|02/12/2022
Often when you are researching a company, it will be useful to compare it to its peers. Here are some resources you can use to find and compare competitor companies. Peer Comparison and Peer Analysis ...
Tags: Bloomberg, capitaliq, company financials, company information, factiva, fame, ibisworld, mirc, peer analysis, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-company, web-mirc-finance|30/11/2022
If you are researching a company for a project or job interview, a company profile will be really helpful, as will a SWOT analysis. A profile will give you the basic information you need about ...
Tags: abi/inform, company information, dmda, ebsco, ecbs, interviews, knl, mirc, muscat, passport, proquest, SOMLibrary, swot, web-mirc-company|12/11/2022
Defence industry information can be quite difficult to find so we wanted to highlight some useful sources for those of you doing research in the area. FitchConnect contains country-by-country reports on Crime, defence and security. ...
Tags: defence, FitchConnect, ibisworld, military, mirc, muscat, SOMLibrary, t&f, web-mirc-industry|07/11/2022
The majority of the world continues to live in a fantasy of plenty and endless choice when it comes to food supplies. But with 250 million acres of agricultural land expected to be lost ...
Tags: COP27, Food, food waste, supply chain, sustainability|01/11/2022
The Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC) is an exciting place to work. Our DARTeC STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) committee members have been engaging with school pupils to inspire future generations. What ...
01/11/2022
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In our last RDM blog post we discussed data protection in general; now let's take a further look at anonymisation. The main message is to think about it early, planning well to ensure that data ...
Tags: anonymisation, barrington, data protection, dpa, knl, mirc, personal data, rdm, research data management, SOMLibrary|17/03/2017
For those of you using standards in your work, these have to be cited and referenced just like any other source you use. In this post we'll look briefly at how to do both in ...
Tags: british standards, bsol, harvard referencing, knl, mirc, referencing, SOMLibrary|08/03/2017
There was a young man we’ll name Paul, Who answered a short survey call. He provided his data And was shocked to see later, His age, faith, and health shared with all. This limerick is ...
Tags: barrington, data protection, dpa, knl, mirc, rdm, research data management, SOMLibrary|06/03/2017
This is the second in a series of posts highlighting specialist resources for engineers; the first post was all about ESDU. Like ESDU, Knovel is another one of my go-to resources as it contains information ...
Tags: barrington, equations, knl, Knovel, materials property data, muscat|03/03/2017
Many of you will have heard the term Altmetrics - but what exactly do they measure? Unlike traditional metrics (e.g. Incites - JCR) which count the number of citations a journal receives, Altmetrics measures attention ...
Tags: altmetrics, barrington, impact, knl, mirc, SOMLibrary|02/03/2017
Getting high quality research fast can often prove problematic. Bloomberg provides analysis on a wide range of financial topics relating to companies, industries and countries amongst other things. Check out the Bloomberg Intelligence function <BI> ...
Tags: Bloomberg, company information, cranfield school of management, industries, Leadership and Management, mirc, primers, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-company, web-mirc-industry|28/02/2017