A new mobile app has been launched to complement GoGeo, the web-based geospatial resource discovery tool for education and research from EDINA. The app allows users to keep abreast of news and events in the geospatial sector. GoGeo Mobile is separated into a number of channels including News, Events, Jobs and Resources for […]
Month: March 2015
Trial of Sustainable Organization Library: world leading collection on sustainability
The Library currently has a trial of the Sustainable Organization Library (SOL). SOL is the world’s leading collection on sustainability and social responsibility. It supports research, teaching, practice and policy-making. The collection has around 10,000 items (book chapters, case studies and research papers) drawn from nearly 800 books, reports and journal issues. […]
Win an iPad air 2 or an Amazon voucher 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 Enter the survey by finding the email sent to you from the Information Centre with the subject line ‘Information […]
Possible network disruption in Alexander Court – Thursday 19th March, 0730-0745
Information Services staff will be carrying out some configuration work on Thursday morning to improve the resilience of the network connection to Alexander Court. The work will affect all Alexander Court Residence Blocks and the Porter’s Lodge. There will be a brief interruption to network services as data traffic from Alexander Court moves over […]
Have your say on the University’s referencing software
The University’s RefWorks contract is coming up for review – help us choose the new software by telling us what’s important to you. Whether or not you use any referencing software we would like to know your views. Please choose ONE of the survey links below: I don’t […]
Possible network disruption in Gannochy – Friday 13th March, 0730-0800
Information Services staff will be upgrading the physical network link to the Gannochy on Friday 13th March between 0730 and 0800. It is envisaged that any disruption will be minimal, as configuration work has been carried out in advance. There will be a brief interruption to network services as data traffic is moved over […]
eduroam upgrade: android lollipop now supported plus new interface
During the Reading fortnight, we applied an upgrade to eduroam. This was to enable support for Android 5.0 lollipop. While we were at it, we also took the opportunity to improve the Wi-Fi setup and login screens to include a cleaner look and feel. All the various screens for the different types of devices have been upgraded […]
SAGE Research Methods
We now have access to the SAGE Research methods collection. This includes 700+ ebooks published by SAGE covering research methodology. You can access the resource directly here http://srmo.sagepub.com.ezproxy.stir.ac.uk/ You can browse the entire collection and search across the collection which includes articles, book chapters and videos. In addition, all of the individual titles have […]
University Supports Open Access Book Publishing
The University has recently joined the Open Book Publishers’ Library Membership Scheme. Open Book Publishers (http://www.openbookpublishers.com/) publishes high quality Open Access research monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. What does this mean for us? We get free access to all the ebooks published by the Open Book Publishers enterprise. At the moment, there […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in January and February
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during January and February. A couple of these are publicly available now: Practice learning and nursing education: rethinking theory and design by Claire Michelle Roxburgh http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21403 Materialities of clinical handover in intensive care : challenges of enactment and education […]