There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 09 May 2014 at 3pm in Cottrell 2B121. All staff and students are encouraged to attend, in particular Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, and Students’ Union representatives. Please send any items for the agenda to IS Office (isoffice@stir.ac.uk) before […]
Month: April 2014
Teaching Bites – Copyright for Learning and Teaching 21st May
In this teaching bites session we’ll help you to comply with UK copyright while providing your students with the material they need. We will let you know what the library can do to help and report some good news in the amended copyright regulations due in June this year. Date & time: Wednesday 21st […]
Happy DNA Day!
Yes, there really is such a thing as “DNA Day”. See the Wikipedia entry! Sixty one years ago today, on the 25th April 1953, the journal Nature published a revolutionary paper by Francis Crick and James D Watson. With crucial help from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, they had built a coherent, credible model […]
Network and telephony service disruption, Tuesday 29th April 2014
There will be an interruption to external telephone lines and some network services, between 07:30 and 08:30 on Tuesday 29th April. During this time, staff from Systems and Network Services will carry out maintenance of the power supply to essential network equipment. The interruption will last for up to 1 hour. The following services […]
Accessing ejournals and library databases – now working
Earlier today I posted that there were problems accessing many of the library’s electronic journals and databases. This was due to our authentication system, EZProxy, failing. Fortunately EZProxy is now up and working again. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. If you encounter any continued access problems, please contact the Information Centre: infocentre@stir.ac.uk […]
Problems accessing ejournals and library databases
There is currently a problem accessing many of the library’s electronic journals and databases. We are currently investigating the issue which is related to one of our authentication systems (EZProxy) failing. Unfortunately the fault prevents you connecting to the ejournal or database. We apologise for this inconvenience and will post again as soon as […]
Win an iPad Mini, Dr Dre headphones or free print credit! Fill in the annual IS Satisfaction Survey
Information Services runs an annual Satisfaction Survey to find out what our staff and students think of our services. We take the results very seriously and aim to make improvements to services based on your feedback. See our article on p7 of ISSUE Dec 2013 to find out what we did in response to last […]
Google Scholar links to WebBridge working again
I recently posted that there was a problem with our links to WebBridge in GoogleScholar not appearing. These Links normally open the WebBridge window that allows you to check whether Stirling has access to the full-text of the reference. I’ve now heard from our WebBridge supplier that this problem is fixed. Hurrah! I’m sorry […]
Progress on Google Scholar links to WebBridge
I recently posted that there is a problem with our links to WebBridge in GoogleScholar not appearing. There has now been some progress to report – here’s what the rep from the WebBridge supplier has told us: “Good news is that Google crawled the site map file on Saturday [12th April]. Bad news is […]
Google Scholar links to WebBridge not working
There is currently a known problem with the Library links in Google Scholar that go to WebBridge. Our WebBridge supplier, Innovative, know about this problem and they are investigating. What this means is that in Google Scholar results you will not currently see the “Univ. of Stirling Links”. These Links normally open the WebBridge […]