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Narratives are what we create for ourselves by tracing the threads of the past and present for mapping out the future. It is all about stories of who we are, who we were yesterday ...
Tags: c4d cranfield|21/10/2022
If you’re researching any aspect of the retail industry, read on for some of our best resources on the topic. Check out the following: IBISWorld Full-text access to UK and US industry reports and global industry ...
Tags: bmi, FitchConnect, ibisworld, market research, mintel, mirc, muscat, retail, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-industry|15/10/2022
Data availability statements, also known as data access statements, are included in publications to describe where the data associated with the paper is available, and under what conditions the data can be accessed. They are ...
Tags: barrington, data access statement, data availability statement, FAIR data, FAIR principles, knl, mirc, rdm, research data management|10/10/2022
Hannah Kloster, current Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology MSc student, talks about her experiences on a recent archaeological dig with Cranfield Forensic Institute (CFI). Was it your first time on such a dig? This was ...
03/10/2022
If only… My day starts with being shaken awake by my vibrating alarm clock. Being deaf means that a normal alarm clock has no effect. After showering and dressing I put in my hearing aid ...
Tags: accessibility, deaf, digital accessibility, disability, disabled, hearing impairment, hearing loss, inclusion|30/09/2022
“I can absolutely pinpoint the moment I decided HR was for me,” enthuses Cranfield alumna Carrie Cushing (MSc International Human Resource Management, 2013). “I was in an undergraduate lecture on organisational behaviour. I found it ...
Tags: HR, Human Resource Management, management|27/09/2022
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In our last RDM (research data management) post we discussed RCUK funding policy in general, so now we'll have a quick look at some specific councils that we often work with at Cranfield. Do you ...
Tags: barrington, bbsrc, EPSRC, esrc, funder, funding, h2020, knl, mirc, nercb, rcuk, rdm, research data management, SOMLibrary, stfc|01/02/2017
When you think about our data repository, CORD, do you think it's just going to be full of tables of numerical data that back up publication articles? It's a common assumption, and that is indeed ...
Tags: barrington, collection, cord, knl, mirc, poster presentation, preservation, rdm, SOMLibrary, white paper|03/01/2017
Coming up to the festive season, what better time is there to research the alcohol market!? So which of our library resources would be the best places to look? Mintel This would be our first ...
Tags: alcohol, bmi, FitchConnect, ibisworld, knl, market research, mintel, mirc, muscat, passport, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-industry|22/12/2016
Cranfield University has become the first university in the UK to join the international EconBiz partner network! EconBiz is a search portal for economics and business studies. It offers students and researchers: a targeted literature search across important ...
Tags: databases, econbiz, economics, knl, management, mirc, muscat, open access, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-economics|16/12/2016
This is the first of a series of blog posts in which we will highlight some of our more specialist resources for engineers. This one is all about ESDU. If you're the kind of person ...
Tags: aerospace, aerospace information, barrington, engineering, engineering information, ESDU, knl, library, materials property data, metals, research|07/12/2016
In research you will often come across an author or partnership of authors who write regularly on a topic. If they are particularly prolific, you may even find they have published multiple pieces of work in the ...
Tags: harvard referencing, knl, mirc, muscat, referencing, SOMLibrary|07/12/2016