Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during June, July and August. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: The role of parasites in the invasion ecology of Harmonia axyridis. By Katharine Berry http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27336 Bearing Witness to an Era: Contemporary Nigerian Fiction […]
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Unpaywall for open research: plans for Scopus integration
Described as a “ground-breaking development” towards achieving a true open research infrastructure, Unpaywall is a database listing almost 20 million freely available scholarly articles. This free service locates open-access articles and presents paywalled papers that have been legally archived and are freely available on other websites to users who might otherwise have hit a paywalled […]
Altmetric Update: new highlights tab and streamlined interface
Altmetric is a tool that tracks online attention surrounding research papers. Their recent update makes it easier to see top influencers, international reach and most-mentioned journals. New Highlights Tab When you first login to Altmetric you will now immediately see a new Highlights tab. The tab contains various “data blocks”; each provides […]
Journal Citation Reports: 2018 release
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is an immensely useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) and other journal metrics. JCR can help you: – identify journals with the highest citation impact in your field – find the most influential journals in which to publish Each […]
Library catalogue downtime: early hours of Tuesday 10th July
The Library Catalogue system is being upgraded this week and as part of this work there will be a short period of downtime in the early hours of Tuesday 10th July, from around 2am. The following services will be unavailable: Library catalogue searching – including the Articles search option Online book renewals via ‘My Library […]
New: STORRE repository use stats now available
Our University open access repository, STORRE, was recently upgraded and this included a really useful update – STORRE is now collecting viewing statistics and counting file downloads. So now you can easily check how often your work is being viewed and used. You can see these use statistics by clicking on the little icon […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in May #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Environmental Harshness and its Effect on Appetite and the Desire for Conspicuous Signalling Products. By James Swaffield http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27239 Does the way in which the latent phase (early […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in April #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during April. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Reflexivity and the process of maturation of students in a work-based learning programme. By Evgueni Chepelin http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27069 Investigating the divergent regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism by different […]
Altmetric: now covering patents
Tracking patent citations is one important way to understand the economic impacts of scholarship. Altmetric are now indexing citations to research found in 8 million patents from nine jurisdictions worldwide, including World Intellectual Property Organization, United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the European Patent Office. You can now use patent citation data […]
Unpaywall: find free, legal, Open Access articles
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could quickly check if there’s a free version of a paper when the library doesn’t have access? Well, now you can – using the super-smart ‘Unpaywall’ tool. Unpaywall is an extension to your web browser that finds free versions of otherwise paywalled papers from a database of about 10 […]