Looking for data about the EU or a European country? The newly launched European Data Portal may have just what you need. This vast portal from the European Commission searches over 240,000 datasets of public sector information and open (government) data from 28 European countries. Categories of data include agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food; education, […]
Month: November 2015
New resources: American Periodicals and Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
We now have access to two new full text resources: American Periodicals This is a digitised archive of selected American magazines and periodicals from 1740-1900. It includes titles such as Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine; literary serializations in National Era; and Scribner’s and Lippincott’s. It is likely to be of interest for history, English, publishing […]
New in Web of Science: Usage Counts and Emerging Sources Citation Index
There have been a couple of recent updates in Web of Science that are worth knowing about. 1. New Usage Counts option in the Web of Science Platform The Web of Science – All Databases Platform has a new Usage Counts measure; this gives an indication of interest in each article. […]
New public Wi-Fi service for Stirling Campus visitors
Information Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new, free Wi-Fi service for visitors to the campus as part of the New Technologies Project. From Wednesday 25th November the service will be available to any visitors you receive on campus, who are not affiliated with an academic institution with access to eduroam. […]
Library exam setup including 24/7 opening
The Stirling Campus Library will be open 24/7 from Monday 7th December until Thursday 17th December to allow for exam study. Several other exam arrangements will be in place from Monday 23rd November to encourage a study environment in the Library: level 3 will become a silent study zone the Enterprise Zone rooms […]
Law Ebooks on trial until end December
Access a wide range of legal texts from Hart Publishing until the end of the year. Click any of the links below to browse the ebooks or search for them in the Library catalogue. Contact library@stir.ac.uk if you would like to give feedback about these books. Category Hart Publishing 2015 Hart Publishing 2014 Comparative Law, Legal […]
The Jacobites and their Legacy
The latest exhibition in the Library commemorates the 300th anniversary of the 1715 Jacobite Rising. The display includes books, manuscripts, artwork and artefacts from the University Library’s collections, as well as some books and broadsides from partner institutions – the Library of Innerpeffray (http://www.innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/) and the Leighton Library in Dunblane (http://www.spanglefish.com/leightonlibrary/). You can see the […]