Want to be smarter about publicising your research? Kevin Tipton, Professor of Sport, Health and Exercise Science, will be giving a talk on how he is using Altmetric to help strategically promote his research. Kevin’s work is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. The session will include a brief […]
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Journal Citation Reports: 2017 release and free webinars
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is an immensely useful tool and can help you: – identify journals with the highest citation impact in your field – find the most influential journals in which to publish Each edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is published annually following […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in May #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Research in Care Homes – Issues of Participation and Citizenship. By Emma Law http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25305 Exploring the application of self-monitoring of blood glucose results in insulin-treated diabetes: A case […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in April #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during April. The theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work for publication: The Development of John Wilbur Chapman’s Life and Thought (1859-1918) by Ross Purdy http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25267 Sex determination and genetic […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in March #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during March. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Women Walking: The Flâneuse and Urban Tourist in Cinema. By Elizabeth Tiller http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25096 Developing approaches to measure dependency across different domains of need in later life: an exploration […]
DataSTORRE downtime on 28th March 7.30 – 8.30am
Our Systems & Support Services team will be carrying out maintenance work on the DataSTORRE server (moving it to new disk storage) on Tuesday 28th March during the “at risk” period, 7.30am – 8.30am. DataSTORRE will be unavailable whilst this work is being undertaken. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Clare Allan Senior Research Librarian
Web of Science citation counts added to Altmetric
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 […]
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) […]