{"id":1004,"date":"2011-10-25T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2011-10-25T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T14:03:28","slug":"finding-the-core-text-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/2011\/10\/25\/finding-the-core-text-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the core text books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone had any ideas on the best way to find the core text books for your disciplines?\u00a0 If you have a contact who has studied the discipline that seems like the obvious route, but what if you haven&#8217;t? I tried:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go to library by subject<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is great for pointing you at databases of journals but not so hot for basic textbooks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Search Webcat for subject + introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Better &#8230; .\u00a0 My two disciplines are marketing and either film studies or journalism. It worked quite well for marketing\u00a0 and film studies &#8211; only about 10 to choose from &#8211; although they were mostly on loan.\u00a0 Not so well for\u00a0 journalism &#8211; not at all obvious which were solid introductions to the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Search on Amazon for subject + introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again worked OK for marketing\u00a0 and film studies &#8211; the comments allowed me to confirm the\u00a0 books in the library were good choices.\u00a0 Journalism produced a rather long list and it was hard to tell which were good and also how to get hold of them without spending large amounts.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like it is going to film studies!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something on the lines of:<\/p>\n<p>How do scientists use the web to communicate with the public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone had any ideas on the best way to find the core text books for your disciplines?\u00a0 If you have a contact who has studied the discipline that seems like the obvious route, but what if you haven&#8217;t? I tried: Go to library by subject This is great for pointing you at databases of journals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}