The Wellcome Trust extends open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2013/WTP052746.htm “The extended policy will become effective for holders of grants awarded after 1 October 2013, and for existing grantholders from October 2014. The new policy does not apply to textbooks, ‘trade’ books, general reference works or works of fiction, […]
Month: May 2013
Disruption to Document Delivery Service – 30th May to 3rd June 2013 (Stirling Campus)
Due to the implementation of new software, our Document Delivery Service will be unavailable from 5pm on Thursday 30th May until approximately midday on 3rd June 2013. During this period users of the service will not be able to make any new requests, or check the progress of any previously submitted requests. Any items which […]
Send us your reading list for Autumn 2013 – we do the rest
Within the Aspire reading list software, references link to the book or journal details in the library catalogue, so students can immediately check availability, place holds, etc. References to our electronic journal articles can link directly to the article. Lists can include references to paper materials, as well as links to web sites and other […]
Can I use RefWorks after I graduate?
You can apply for a free RefWorks Alumni Account and transfer your references to it. Alternatively you could transfer your references to a variety of free referencing systems. It is important that you arrange to transfer your references before you actually leave the University as you will require access to the University Portal and your […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Tuesday 28 May 2013
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Tuesday 28 May 2013 at 11.00, 2B87 Stirling Campus. All staff and students are encouraged to attend, in particular Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, and Students’ Union representatives. Alison Green, Senior Teaching Fellow, Deputy Director of Teaching and Learning, School […]
British Library Labs Competition Live – Calling all researchers and developers!
Propose an innovative and transformative project that answers a research question using the British Library’s digital collections / data and if your idea is chosen, the Labs team will work with you to make it happen and you could win a prize of up to £3,000. From the digitisation of thousands of books, newspapers […]
Free webinars about data management from the UK Data Service
A series of five free webinars are available in May to introduce the resources of the UK Data Service. These will be of particular interest to researchers in Social Science disciplines. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis and can be booked at the links below. Session One: An introduction to the data […]
The portal and module registration
This week, some students will have had difficulty in connecting to the Portal between 09:00 and 09:35 on the morning of Wednesday 1st May when module registration for the autumn semester opened. When module registration first goes live, there is an enormous peak in the number of people trying to connect so the connection […]
RefWorks Write-N-Cite 4 now available for Staff Pcs
Finally the new version of Write-N-Cite is now available for staff computers from Run Advertised Programmes. The Write-N-Cite Mini Guide with instructions on downloading and using WNC4 is now available. Why use WNC 4? Write-N-Cite is an add-in programme for Word which synchronises with your RefWorks database so that you can create in-text citations and […]