New handbooks from Edward Elgar Publishing
The library has access to 20 new handbooks from the academic publisher Edward Elgar publishing. Examples of titles are Research Handbook on Environmental Sociology, Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations and Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development.
Handbooks are useful scientific overviews with chapters that highlight different aspects of a subject. This allows you to read up on a field, learn about the various theories used in research, identify the most important authors and get a good reference list of the most important contributions in the subject. Handbooks are also good sources of relevant keywords that can be used when searching further on the topic in various databases.
All the handbooks the library has access to via Elgar Online.
