Altmetric is a free tool that tracks social media attention to research papers and is recognisable because of its use of a colourful donut: Altmetric scores for individual articles have been available in STORRE since November 2014. The University now subscribes to Altmetric for Institutions: this is a service that provides an aggregated […]
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Stirling’s Top Ten most shared articles of 2015
You may have noticed that as part of our New Technologies project we will soon be launching Altmetric for Institutions for Stirling. Altmetric for Institutions is a service that helps you monitor and report on the social media attention research papers are receiving. In preparation for the launch we have sent to Altmetric […]
STORRE Downloads: the year’s top 10
It’s getting to that time of year for looking back and reviewing how we’ve done. I’ve been looking at STORRE full-text file downloads since this time last year. Data from the IRUS-UK statistics portal that we joined during 2014 There’s obviously a seasonal pattern that follows the academic year. But it’s interesting to see that […]
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. […]
Chance to win a Kindle – EThOS PhD Service Survey
Are you a user of the EThOS service http://ethos.bl.uk? Is your PhD included in EThOS? EThOS have launched a survey to find out what EThOS users think about their service and to find out more about how they use doctoral theses – and EThOS – for their research. EThOS are also interested in […]
Top ten downloads from STORRE in September
During September there were 24,812 downloads from our research repository, STORRE, covering 3,052 items. The top ten items were: Dimensions of service quality and service climate: a study of bank customers and employees in four local Malaysian banks. By Ab. Wahab, Norailis http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1297 Downloads: 290 The Role of Creativity in Entrepreneurship. […]
Scopus to cease support for Internet Explorer 8
Effective from 1st October 1 2015, Scopus* will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). This is to allow Scopus to focus support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. If you are still using Internet Explorer 8 on your office PC you can upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 by installing it from Run Advertised […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in June and July
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. A number of these are publicly available now: Hypoglycaemic emergencies attended by the Scottish Ambulance Service: a multiple methods investigation by David Fitzpatrick. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21854 Implications of Potassium Channel Heterogeneity for Model Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Response Fidelity James McGuinness. […]
Top ten downloads from STORRE in July
During July there were 20,588 downloads from our research repository, STORRE, covering 2,937 items. The top ten items were: Dimensions of service quality and service climate: a study of bank customers and employees in four local Malaysian banks. By Ab. Wahab, Norailis. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1297 Downloads: 245 Reporting medication errors and near misses. […]
New Global Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Search
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations has announced a new search interface to their global union catalogue of theses: Global Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Search (Global ETD Search). For the first time the search interface provides end-user access directly to the collection which covers 4 million records of theses and […]