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Recently there have been some changes to the BoardEx service so here is a short reminder of what kinds of information the service holds. What is BoardEx? BoardEx provides global board and senior management information ...
Tags: boardex, company boards, company financials, compensation, financials, mirc, SOMLibrary|22/09/2022
Library Services staff have set up trial access to SAGE Skills until 2 October. The SAGE Skills suite of products is designed to support students to develop the academic and professional skills necessary to succeed in ...
Tags: academic skills, barrington, knl, mirc, resource trial, SOMLibrary, study skills|21/09/2022
Let me paint you a picture. You’re in the pub and you ask people around you what ‘sustainability’ means to them. It depends on the crowd, but you’d probably be met a combination of with ...
Tags: “Cranfield”, cranfield school of management, cranfield university, environment, management, school of management, sustainability, Sustainability MSc, sustainable, sustainable development, sustainable development goals|15/09/2022
We all know how to cite and reference from books, journals, the internet and even blog posts, but what about financials? Just like information from other sources, data retrieved from a specialist finance resource should ...
Tags: APA7, barrington, company financials, knl, mirc, referencing, SOMLibrary|08/09/2022
Have you had a look at ProQuest One Business yet? No? Go on, login. We would highly recommend it! This new service has been designed as not just a journal database, but also as a ...
Tags: abi/inform, barrington, ejournals, journal articles, knl, mirc, proquest, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-articles|01/09/2022
My five-year-old often asks me – “Daddy, what do you do when you go to work?” – quickly followed by musings about whether I’m stronger than his friend Max’s Daddy, who arrests ‘baddies’ and if ...
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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
When a dataset is published online, the depositor must enter some information about it, including providing details about its authors. It seems an innocuous field to fill in, but determining data authorship can be complex ...
Tags: authorship, barrington, cord, figshare, knl, mirc, rdm, research data management, SOMLibrary|05/12/2016
When your research is complete, you will probably need to deposit your research data in a repository – but how much should you deposit? All of it or just the subset referenced in any articles? ...
Tags: barrington, cord, data selection, knl, mirc, rdm, research data management|22/11/2016
In SplashData’s fifth annual worst passwords list, “123456” and “password” remained the top passwords in 2015. Does your password appear on the list? Thinking up a password for a new service (or changing your password ...
Tags: barrington, data security, information security, knl, mirc, password, rdm, SOMLibrary|16/11/2016
When Antoine de Saint Exupéry said “a goal without a plan is just a wish”, he probably wasn’t thinking about data management plans (DMPs), but he certainly knew the importance of planning. So does Cranfield ...
Tags: barrington, data management planning, DMP, knl, mirc, rdm, research data, SOMLibrary|08/11/2016