Stirling has joined the BMJ Publishing ”Publish and Read” Agreement for 2022. This means in return for a one-off payment by the Library, Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in most BMJ journals covering a broad selection of health and medical specialities. See the full list of journals. Open access publication is free […]
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New Library Links from Google Scholar direct to Stirling’s full-text articles
You can now set up Google Scholar so that it links seamlessly to LibrarySearch and the full-text of journal articles that Stirling University Library subscribes to. To setup your Google Scholar Library Links for Stirling’s LibrarySearch: First login to your Google/Google scholar account so that these settings will be retained, then: 1. In Google Scholar click the three horizontal bars in […]
Free webinar for researchers: ‘How to get your research noticed’
Register for this free webinar on ‘How to get your research noticed’ on Thursday 4th November 2021, 4pm Register Now The webinar is just half an hour, with time for Q&As at the end, and you will be given some tips on how to get your research noticed, helping it become more discoverable and increasing […]
Stirling joins MDPI Publisher Program: 10% off Open Access Publishing
Stirling has joined the MDPI publisher’s free Institutional Open Access Program. The Program is designed to simplify the administrative processes and reduce overheads surrounding the payment of APCs (Article Processing Charges) for Open Access publishing. This will mean that in place of MDPI’s APC invoices being sent to Stirling authors, we will use a “central […]
UK Data Service introductory training series: Autumn 2021
The UK Data Service is the UK’s largest collection of UK and international social, economic and population data. They provide free access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. The Service contains thousands of data collections, including UK census data, government funded surveys, longitudinal studies, international macrodata, qualitative data, and business microdata. […]
Stirling joins PNAS Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
Stirling has joined the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences two-year transformational open access pilot agreement negotiated by JISC. The Agreement means that Stirling authors can publish Open Access in PNAS without paying page charges or an Open Access fee. Stirling students and staff will also have access to all PNAS content, dating back to 1915. […]
New Web of Science platform launched
The new Web of Science platform has been launched and is now available to Stirling students and staff. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary service for finding details of research articles and other publication types covering: sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It tracks around 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records. The […]
Journal Citation Reports 2021 release: now includes Arts & Humanities journals
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is a very useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors and other journal metrics. This release: 70% more content – partly due to inclusion of journal titles from the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) New metric […]
Stirling joins Taylor & Francis Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
*** UPDATE TO POST BELOW 10th June 2021 *** Upon clarification of the terms from Taylor and Francis, we have now been able to lift our restriction below that the Agreement will only cover articles that have external funding. The Agreement can now be used for any research article with a Stirling corresponding author that […]
Stirling’s STORRE Included in New Repository of Scottish COVID-19 Research
Public Health Scotland has launched a Repository of Covid-19 research with the aim of bringing together and providing easy access to Scottish COVID-19 research on a single shared platform. The Repository contains research about COVID-19 in Scotland as well as research on COVID-19 undertaken by Scottish researchers. The Repository aggregates details of research publications from […]