All the books in the library are organised first by number (which corresponds to a subject area) and then alphabetically by author’s surname. Use the library catalogue to search for books from your reading list.
To help you get started, the first box below provides a few selective helpful numbers – consult your reading lists and course material for more detail on your recommended texts; for assistance in using the library catalogue, please use this guide.
These numbers may be helpful for finding books in the following subject areas:
005.74 – Database Systems
006.3/006.312 – Data Mining
006.6 – Data Visualisation
519.5 – Statistics for Business and Economics/Data Analysis
658 - Management
658.05 – Computer Applications
658.4038 – Business Information Systems/Management Information Systems
808.066/808.0666 - Academic Writing/Writing Dissertations
Please note all communications, from the library, concerning renewal of books, overdue books and reservations will be sent to your N.C.I. student email account.
The following ebooks are available through the VLeBooks and O'Reilly Learning ebooks platforms.
Chisholm (2013) Exploring data with Rapidminer
EMC (2015) Data science and big data analytics
Lantz (2013) Machine learning with R, 2nd ed.
McClave & Savitch (2017) Statistics, 13th ed.
Provost (2013) Data science for business
White, Tom (2015) Hadoop, the definitive guide, 4th ed.
Witten (2016) Data mining, 4th ed.
Zobel (2014) Writing for computer science
There are more eBooks available by searching in the following databases or by searching in the library catalogue:-
EBSCO ebook Business Collection - user guide.