The Web of Science platform was updated at the weekend: Cited Reference searching and Advanced searching are now available within All Databases. Cited Reference searching – All Databases A Cited Reference search allows you to find the articles that cited an article of interest. This is a very useful way to search […]
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Top 100 most shared articles of 2014
Altmetric have compiled a list of the top 100 academic research articles that caught the public imagination in 2014. The list is based on mentions from a variety of sources, including: mainstream news, blogs, social media, post-publication peer-review forums and platforms such as Reddit and YouTube. To view the list visit: http://www.altmetric.com/top100. […]
Top Ten favourite characters from a Scottish book
I posted recently about the vote for your favourite character from a Scottish book – well the results are in! Here’s the top 10 – see all the details at the Scottish Book Trust site. 1. Francis Crawford of Lymond The Game of Kings Dorothy Dunnett – see Dorothy Dunnett books in our […]
Top ten downloads from STORRE in November 2014
During November there were 26,321 downloads from our research repository, STORRE, covering 2,885 items. The top ten items were: The Role of Creativity in Entrepreneurship. By Fillis, Ian; Rentschler, Ruth http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2518 Downloads: 566 The development of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence: Amnesia and Deja Vu. By Priestley, Mark; Humes, Walter http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2110 Downloads: […]
No access to RefWorks currently – Update: Now fixed
Update to our message below: We have now heard from Refworks support in America and there was a problem with the service at their end. They have fixed the issue so our staff and students should be able to log into Refworks again. If you accessed Refworks while it was down, you will […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in September and October
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the months of September and October. Some of these theses are publicly available now: The influence of sex, training status, and fatty acid supplementation on T-lymphocyte populations at rest and in response to acute exercise by Frankie Fantom […]
Top ten downloads from STORRE in October 2014
During October there were 30,599 downloads from our research repository, STORRE, covering 2,949 items. The top ten items were: Retailing in the United Kingdom – a synopsis. By Burt, Steven; Sparks, Leigh; Teller, Christoph http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2551 Downloads: 416 The development of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence: Amnesia and Deja Vu. By Priestley, Mark; […]
Vote for your favourite character from a Scottish book
Who needs X Factor – in preparation for Book Week Scotland (Monday 24 – Sunday 30 November) the Scottish Book Trust are holding a vote to discover the most loved characters in Scottish fiction. Choose from their panel’s favourites or select your own character: http://scottishbooktrust.com/reading/book-week-scotland/vote-for-your-favourite-character-from-a-scottish-book Everyone from Oor Wullie to […]
Top ten downloads from STORRE in September 2014
As reported in our recent ISSUE Newsletter (No 97 June 2014) STORRE, the University’s open access research repository, has been integrated with the IRUS-UK statistics portal. IRUS-UK collects usage data from a number of UK Repositories and can provide institutional-level usage data. This September was our first full month of the integration and so […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in August
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of August. The theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work for publication: Evaluation of the ecological impacts of beaver reintroduction on aquatic systems by Alan Law. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20767 Ageing […]