Subject(s): Information services -- Case studies -- Management Summary: The research landscape is changing, with key global research funders now requiring institutions to demonstrate how they will preserve and share research data. However, the practice of structured research data management is very new, and the construction of services remains

Subject(s): Vocational education | Vocational education -- Social aspects Summary: Vocational education and training (VET) can be difficult to define since it is set in a turbulent and volatile environment marked by national and regional specificities. It can be delivered at different levels and by a variety of providers, including community co

Subject(s): Computer networks -- Security measures | Cyberspace -- Security measures | Information technology -- Management | Trust -- Economic aspects Summary: "Preface Traditional security mechanisms restrict access to authorized users only, in order to protect resources from malicious users. However, in many contexts, we must protect our

Subject(s): Finance -- History | Capitalism -- History | Social justice -- History Summary: Challenging the public and its leaders to rethink finance and its role in society, Shiller argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society's assets. He explains

Subject(s): School management and organization -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | Educational leadership -- Sex differences -- Great Britain | Multicultural education -- Great Britain | Group identity -- Great Britain Summary: "Gender, Identity and Educational Leadership explores how head teachers' social identities - particularly per

Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Australian | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area | World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Pacific Area | Pacific Area -- History, Military -- 20th century | Australia -- History -- 1939-1945 Summary: By January 1943, Australia had e

Subject(s): Digital libraries | Libraries -- Special collections Electronic information resources Summary: The emergency of digital libraries in the early 1990s was a critical turning point in the shift to networked information. Calhoun examines the foundations, current practice and prospects of digital libraries, and explores the possibilities

Subject(s): Transaction systems (Computer systems) -- Mathematical models | Computer systems -- Design and construction Mathematics | Queuing theory | Queuing networks (Data transmission) Summary: "Computer systems design is full of conundrums. Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisi

Subject(s): Museum architecture -- Social aspects Summary: "Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent development of a body of research to understand the myriad issues. Museum Architecture: A New Biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the natur

Subject(s): Anorexia nervosa | Eating disorders -- Psychological aspects Summary: "Decoding Anorexia is the first and only book to explain anorexia nervosa from a biological point of view. Its clear, user-friendly descriptions of the genetics and neuroscience behind the disorder is paired with first person descriptions and personal narrativ