The Library currently has a trial of the Sustainable Organization Library (SOL). SOL is the world’s leading collection on sustainability and social responsibility. It supports research, teaching, practice and policy-making. The collection has around 10,000 items (book chapters, case studies and research papers) drawn from nearly 800 books, reports and journal issues. […]
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Have your say on the University’s referencing software
The University’s RefWorks contract is coming up for review – help us choose the new software by telling us what’s important to you. Whether or not you use any referencing software we would like to know your views. Please choose ONE of the survey links below: I don’t […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in January and February
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during January and February. A couple of these are publicly available now: Practice learning and nursing education: rethinking theory and design by Claire Michelle Roxburgh http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21403 Materialities of clinical handover in intensive care : challenges of enactment and education […]
RMS: new mandatory questions for Open Access compliance
From the afternoon of 18th February 2015 new mandatory questions will be added to the Research Management System (RMS) relating to Open Access publishing. Background On 1st April 2013 the Research Councils UK (RCUK) introduced a new Open Access and Article Processing Charge Policy for publications resulting from their funded projects. The Policy […]
Japan Week 2015 – Library display of art books
Dr Isao Ichige has donated a beautiful set of books, Nihon Bijutsu Zenshu (Japanese art: the complete works) – essentially a history of Japanese culture – to Stirling University. This valuable set of books contains a comprehensive list of Japanese art objects in full colour and with detailed information for each item from […]
STORRE: Captcha added to “Request a copy” form
Following a recent spate of SPAM “Request a copy” requests being sent out by a SPAM Robot using the STORRE “Request a copy” form (the form that STORRE users can use to request a copy of embargoed items in STORRE directly from the author), we have now added a Captcha to the form which must […]
Impact of articles in STORRE – new Altmetric badges
Altmetric Badges, that give a visual indicator of the impact a publication has had on the Web, have been added to STORRE. As a result of some local development work, you’ll now see the badges at the top of any STORRE record that has an Altmetric score. Altmetrics are a new way […]
Tweet about your thesis #ShareMyThesis
The British Library is currently running a Twitter based competition for all PhD authors and current doctoral students, inviting them to say why their doctoral research is/was important, using the hashtag #ShareMyThesis. It’s great seeing the range of incredible research – https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23sharemythesis&src=typd The competition aims to raise awareness of the importance of […]
DOI links not working – update: now working
The problem below with DOI links has now been resolved and DOI links are working properly again. This was a worldwide problem and it turns out the issue was that “somebody forgot to renew the dx.doi.org domain name” (come on we’ve all done something like that!) – details at: http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/01/problems-with-dx-doi-org-on-january-20th-2015-what-we-know.html —————- There is currently […]
Digimap: loss of availability 4pm 26th to 9am 28th January
A new registration system has been developed for Digimap. Release of the new system requires a significant period of service unavailability. * New registrations for Digimap (using the current system) will be closed from 4pm Monday 26th January. * Digimap will then be unavailable all day on Tuesday 27th January, while the new system […]