You are now able to see Web of Science citation count data alongside other article metrics within Altmetric. Altmetric track mentions of scholarly articles in social media, for example: twitter, online news stories, blog postings, etc. Bringing together these types of mentions with the more traditional formal citation counts creates a useful integrated picture […]
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New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in January & February #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during January and February. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Peat’s secret archive: Interpreting the geochemical and palaeodust record from Scottish peat as a potential index of North Atlantic storminess and Holocene climate change. By Helena […]

Stirling Top Ten STORRE publication downloads of 2016
The University of Stirling’s Open Access Repository, STORRE, has had another great year. During 2016 we had a total of 5,538 full-text publication files downloaded a total of 366,028 times. Comparing 2016 with 2015, this is a 16% increase in the total number of downloads from STORRE! (366,028 versus 316,025 downloads in 2015). Here’s the top […]

New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in November & December #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during November and December. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Three Essays on Retirement and Savings Behaviour. By Bernardo Fonseca Nunes http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24516 The Artivism Intervention: Can art be used to conscientise artists (Mental Health Service Users) […]

Stirling’s Top Ten most shared articles of 2016
Here’s the Top Ten Stirling papers with the highest Altmetric scores during 2016! Most of these papers are available to download immediately from the links in the references below (the link goes to the record in the University’s repository, STORRE). If the full-text is embargoed use the ‘Request a copy’ button at the foot of the […]

Stirling theses digitised from microfilm by British Library EThOS service
We have been working with EThOS on a pilot project to digitise older University of Stirling theses that are part of the British Library’s microfilm collection of UK PhD theses. The microfilm copies were created over many years as part of the pre-EThOS British Thesis Service, and were used to supply thesis loans and […]

Stirling’s #DataSTORRE invited to join SHARE @SHARE_research
We’re delighted to have been invited by SHARE to add DataSTORRE to their list of metadata providers. DataSTORRE is our online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. SHARE is a collaboration between the North American Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Open Science to map […]

Altmetric Profile for any ORCID
Within the new version 2 of our Altmetric for Institutions you can now search by ORCID iD. Increasingly authors are managing their publication lists using ORCID profiles. Now in Altmetric, you can enter any ORCID iD in the main search bar to find the associated Altmetric data for research outputs connected to that ORCID. Make […]

New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Strong is the New Slim: A Study of the Body and Gender Amongst Female Free Weights Users. By Robyn Spice http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24355 What is, and what might be, learned […]

Altmetric – Stirling latest data refresh complete
Altmetric for Institutions at Stirling is a service that monitors and reports on the attention research papers are receiving on the web. Four times a year Stirling sends publication details from our Research Management System (RMS), STORRE and DataSTORRE to Altmetric so they can refresh the data they hold about us. Altmetric then track […]