To celebrate Open Access week, read inspirational stories collated by Knowledge Exchange to celebrate the power and influence of Open Access publishing. The Knowledge Exchange expresses the vision: ‘To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.’ For more information, see the Knowledge Exchange webpages. What the Knowledge Exchange say […]
Month: October 2011
ESRC Festival of Social Science
To mark the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Festival of Social Science (29th October to 5th November 2011) we will be highlighting some of the Library’s social science resources on our Twitter account. More information about the Festival is available here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/  Various events are planned for the festival, which aims to demonstrate how social […]
New look ZETOC coming in November
ZETOC, the British Library’s electronic table of contents alerting service, will be upgraded on 15th November 2011. ZETOC provides information about over 28,000 journals and 45 million article citations and conference papers. It covers all academic disciplines and is available from the A-Z list of online resources.  The upgrade to ZETOC will improve data accuracy, […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Friday 2 December 2011
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 2 December 2011 at 1.00pm, room still to be confirmed, Stirling Campus. All are welcome. IT and Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Please send any items for the agenda to IS […]
ACM Digital Library Online Training
Online training for Computing Science students! The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library are holding an online training event. Â The session will run from from 11:00am (EDT) until 12:00pm (EDT) on October 20th 2011. It is designed as an introductory session for the Author, Institutional, & Publication Profile Pages. Â To join the […]
STORRE closed for deposit: 24th-26th Oct
STORRE will be closed for deposit between Monday 24th October and Wednesday 26th October whilst work is undertaken to bring it in to line with the new University structure. STORRE will, however, remain open for browsing and searching during this period. If you have an item that you must submit to STORRE whilst this […]
New Social Study Zone now open
The area in between the new Library entrance and the Atrium fast food bar (formerly used as the Interim library) has now been reopened to students as the Social Study Zone. This is an extension to the existing study space available in the Library and the Atrium areas. The concept of “social learning space” is central […]
Loss of Internet Connectivity, Friday 21/10/11 22:00 – Saturday 22/10/11 07:00
We have been notified by our service provider that due to motorway construction work, the telecoms fibres which provide the university with JANET and Internet connectivity will be disconnected for 4-8 hours during the stated window. This work also affects our backup circuit, so there will be no external connectivity whatsoever during the outage. Â […]
Proquest databases down for maintenance, Sun 23 October
Proquest, the supplier of many of our online databases will be performing maintenance on Sun 23 October from 3am til 3pm.  This will mean that many of our online databases may not be available including:  • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) • ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts • Biological Sciences […]
MathSciNet online tutorials now available
MathSciNet is a database of journal articles in mathematics; it is the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.  You can access MathSciNet from the A-z list of online resources from the Portal.  The online tutorials, available here: http://www.mathscinet.info/index.html can help you use the database to find articles by author, publication or […]