We are currently operating on our vacation hours. This week and next the library will be open 8am-8pm Monday to Thursday and 8am-5pm and 10-5 at weekends. Week beginning 24 January we return to our semester opening hours, 8am-8pm Monday to Friday and 10am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday. During our opening hours, staff will be […]
Welcome to Library and IT at Stirling – Spring 2022
Information Services invites you to join us for some fantastic events to help you hit the ground running when it comes to the Library and IT at the University of Stirling. What’s on… Essential Student Guide to Library and IT Services Learn all about the Library and IT services at Stirling including how to install […]
Upgrade to SPSS Version 28 Now!
Are you an SPSS user? You need to upgrade to SPSS version 28 now. You can access the latest version of SPSS from AppsAnywhere. Mac OS users should complete our Request SPSS software codes for Mac form to receive a download link and licence code. Support and FAQs on AppsAnywhere can be found in UniDesk. […]
New Library Links from Google Scholar direct to Stirling’s full-text articles
You can now set up Google Scholar so that it links seamlessly to LibrarySearch and the full-text of journal articles that Stirling University Library subscribes to. To setup your Google Scholar Library Links for Stirling’s LibrarySearch: First login to your Google/Google scholar account so that these settings will be retained, then: 1. In Google Scholar click the three horizontal bars in […]
Launch of New MS Teams Meeting Integration in Canvas
We are delighted to inform you that we have successfully released a new integration within Canvas for Microsoft (MS) Teams Meetings. This new integration means there is a new and improved way for you to access and join your MS Teams meetings for your modules (seminars / lectures etc). There is now a link within […]
Changes to how you access email.
As part of our on-going programme of security enhancements, we have already made some changes to the way that email is accessed in order to remove less secure methods of accessing your university email account that do not enforce MFA (multi factor authentication). Microsoft is increasing the security of Office 365 which will now result […]
Learning and Teaching Support for Spring 2022
Information Services are offering a series of bookable events to support learning and teaching in Spring 2022. Book a support assistant for the start of your class! IS have a number of IT Assistants aka Wizards available to help you get your class kicked off. If you feel it would be helpful to have a Wizard […]
Staying cybersafe over the holiday period.
From banking to shopping, and streaming to social media, people are spending more time than ever online. This means more opportunities for hackers to carry out cyber attacks. They often do this by targeting people and businesses using: email and website scams malware – software that can damage your device or let a hacker in […]
MIT Press Open Access Monographs
The Library is supporting an initiative from publisher MIT Press to enable the open access publishing of new research monographs. This means that we will have open access to new scholarly monographs published by MIT Press in 2022 (approximately 90 titles). We also now have access to the backlist from this publisher (approximately 2600 titles). […]
UoS Multimedia Wi-Fi – Unsupported Devices
Before you write your letter to Santa you may want to read this post to find out if your wish list item are likely to connect to Wi-Fi on Campus. Several popular multimedia devices cannot work on an enterprise Wi-Fi networks such as our UoS Multimedia. These include (but are not restricted to) the following: […]