From next Friday 28 May 2021, the library opening hours will be changing slightly. We will move to our summer hours. There is only one change, the library will close at 5pm on Friday’s. Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm Friday 8 am – 5 pm Saturday – Sunday 10 am – 5 […]
ReadingLists for Autumn 2021
You can now create a new reading list or ‘roll over’ a previous list by clicking on the ‘Reading List’ option in your Autumn 2021 Canvas module. The reading list system allows you to add items from LibrarySearch, upload a PDF file, or download the ‘Cite it’ widget to your browser to add content from […]
Mastering Microsoft in August
Mastering Microsoft is back!!! Are you a member of staff looking to expand your skillset? Join Information Services for our month-long Microsoft 365 skills event during August 2021. Sign up for one of our training sessions SIGN UP for one (or all) of our training sessions, including working with documents in OneDrive and SharePoint, an introduction to Teams, Teams meetings, and scheduling. For more information and to book […]
Learning and Teaching Support and Development for Autumn 2021
Information Services are offering a bookable series of online and face-to-face events to support developments in learning and teaching in Autumn 2021. Blended and hybrid learning Academic Development and the Digital Learning Team will run a number of webinars on designing and supporting blended or hybrid learning. These will cover how to design active and inclusive in-person and […]
A farewell to box
We are finally ready to close down our cloud file storage on box. A two year project, somewhat extended by a global pandemic, is now coming to a close. Our box subscription will end on 31st July 2021. After 31st July, you will no longer have access to box. We are now in the final […]
Capital IQ – Alternative Login
If you experience difficulties accessing Capital IQ e.g. 504 Gateway Time-out, you may register for an alternative login as follows. Go to the Library Subject Guide for Company Information (navigate: Portal > LibrarySearch > Library Subject Guides > Company Information). Click the link “Register to use Capital IQ (Management School Students & Staff only)” Check […]
New Web of Science platform launched
The new Web of Science platform has been launched and is now available to Stirling students and staff. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary service for finding details of research articles and other publication types covering: sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It tracks around 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records. The […]
Journal Citation Reports 2021 release: now includes Arts & Humanities journals
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is a very useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors and other journal metrics. This release: 70% more content – partly due to inclusion of journal titles from the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) New metric […]
For staff: new Canvas Modules for Autumn 2021
One academic year passes….and we turn our thoughts to the next! The Autumn Term modules (2021/2) will be released in the week commencing 5th July. It is VERY important that you read the documentation linked below BEFORE you start to move your content from one module to the next. We have produced a step-by-step guide […]
Email, OneDrive and Office365 after graduation
Congratulations if you are graduating next week. Student emailYou may want to retain access to your student email for 2 years after you graduate. You need to opt-in to do this. Please check your portal for the opt-in banner. If you are continuing your studies by taking a Postgraduate taught course, please opt-in to retain […]
Teams fix for University managed devices
We know you have been having trouble with Teams, some staff have been required to re-install Teams every day to ensure they have the latest version. We now have a fix! From Friday 25 June at 5pm we will begin to implement this fix, and this will start to roll out across all University managed […]