Hi thanks for your detailed reply, Ursula et al - I have found that there
ARE short-cuts when one is on 10 and half hour contracts, thank you !!! In
the times we are living, everyone expects too much for what we are actually
offered (I have become not just cynical about qualifications but I have also
found out these last two years that even CONTRACTS are not worth the paper
they are written on).
Emilce Rees
>From: Ursula McKean <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Ursula McKean <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: BIDS for chapter references -
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:38:57 GMT
>
>Hi Emilce,
>
>It's my experience that finding details of chapters on databases
>depends very much on what subject you're dealing with. Most
>databases and ESPECIALLY WoS deal only with the periodical
>literature; WoS in particular comes from the organisation that
>makes its name from providing impact factors, and is only
>marginally interested even in conference literature. Non-periodical
>literature is not peer-reviewed and doesn't usually get a look-in.
>
>In biological sciences (which is what I know about), the databases
>which sometimes, but not always, provide chapter information ar
>BIOSIS and CAB Abstracts (that I know of). They are interested in
>the literature!
>
>You could try (for the recent literature) looking for details in the
>publishers' own websites; though pagination isn't often there.
>
>But if you're compiling a bibliography without having seen the
>papers or chapters, I'm afraid that you should see them! Borrow the
>books and read and evaluate the texts for yourself! There are no
>short cuts in good work. (Paraphrase of Euclid: There is no royal
>road in mathematics).
>
>Ursula
>
> > I have just been informed by BIDS that none of their databases "does"
> > chapter references (for pagination). Can any of the bright young things
>on
> > this list advise which service to use for this ? LSE/BEI output doesn't
> > "do" chapter refs. I can't believe I have lived all these years without
> > our academic libraries not providing this service (perhaps this could be
>a
> > good topic of discussion for the UCR Group ?)
> >
> > I am actually compiling a bibliography for when the chartership format
> > changes - one lives in hope (after all, this year finally sees the
>demise
> > of mickey-mouse qualifications like the NVQs - which if I remember
> > correctly flopped ŕ l'étranger, see URL posted some time ago on this
>list,
> > regarding their assessment and take-up).
> >
> > Who knows ? Maybe in the coming decade we shall actually see subject
> > librarians with CILIP (and other) qualifications for the subjects they
>are
> > in charge of, and researchers actually using librarians for their
>research
> > queries.
> >
> > Oh !!! I am also writing a paper on educational utopia ...
> >
> >
> > Emilce Rees
>
>
>Ursula McKean
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