Scotland’s annual celebration of everything book, writing and reading-related is back, from 18-24 November. The theme this year is conversation. That’s right, we’re having a good old blether at Book Week Scotland. Book Week Scotland 2019 Events There are events taking place in every corner of Scotland. Find an event near you. Grab your copy of Blether […]
Spotlight on…. American Periodicals
The Library subscribes to an online resource called American Periodicals, which includes digitised American magazines and periodicals published between 1740 and 1900. This is a good resource if your subject is American Literature or History, particularly if you are interested in the following topics: 19th century literature; women’s magazines; popular culture; American politics and government […]
Free Software available to students.
Did you know that as a registered student at University of Stirling you are eligible for free software? We have listed the software available below. Office 365Get the full Office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc) free of charge while you are studying/working at the University. This is a powerful tool, you can use OneDrive cloud […]
Students – we want to hear from you! Tell us what you think about Digital Technology at the University and have a chance of winning an Amazon voucher…
For the fourth year in a row, we are participating in the JISC Digital Experience Insights survey. We use this survey to find out how you are using digital technology at the University and what we can do to improve our services and support. Last year you told us you wanted more study space in […]
Your mailbox is on the move: timescale
Following our email and blog post about the migration of staff mailboxes from local servers to O365 cloud servers, the timetable for each area is outlined below: Timescale Mailbox Upgrades Date Staff discovery/disabled (done) 4-8 November 2019 PGR all (done) 11-13 November 2019 HR/International/Finance/INTO/Occ Health 13-15 November 2019 CMR / RIS/ Commercial Services incl Stirling […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Towards a better understanding of the value of physical fitness testing within the identification and development of youth soccer players. By James Dugdale http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30250 An Ethnographic Exploration of Relationships […]
Your mailbox is on the move!
Information Services is preparing to deploy Office 365 (O365) to University staff, which will provide a suite of cloud-based software designed to enhance our day-to-day work. The O365 suite is used widely in the HE sector and is particularly useful in the delivery of learning & teaching. We will share more on all of this […]
STORRE with extra Dimensions – new badges show citations impact of our research
Dimensions badges that provide an interactive visualisation of citation data for a publication have been added to STORRE. Thanks to the development work of our own Michael White, you’ll see the badges at the top of any STORRE record that has a DOI. The Dimensions badge shows the ‘Total citations’, that is, the number of […]
The end of European Cybersecurity Month.
We are now in November and European Cybersecurity Month is now over, but we hope that cybersecurity is something that is in your mind every day and not just during this campaign. We hope that you have learned something useful or that you have had a wee reminder of things that you need to think […]
Getting rid of any devices
If you decide to sell or give your laptop, smartphone, tablet or device to someone else (or to just put out in the electrical waste), you should first perform a factory reset. This will return the device to its original settings, and should also remove all your personal data from the device. Check your manufacturer’s […]