**UPDATE – To address the problem below, the library catalogue will be unavailable for a short period this afternoon (Fri 25th) from 4:30pm. The ejournal records will then hopefully be reloaded over the weekend.** The Library Catalogue currently has some problems around the coverage and catalogue of our electronic journal records. Each month the […]
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New 2013 Journal Metrics from Scopus announced
Elsevier have announced the release of the 2013 Journal Metrics based on Scopus data. The metrics provide methods for assessing the citation impact a journal makes and are all available for free download at http://www.journalmetrics.com. The impact metrics are based on methodologies developed by external bibliometricians and use Scopus as the data source. […]
The Zombie thesis: walks and talks but isn’t really alive
One of my favourite blogs, The Thesis Whisperer*, has just posted a great article about the problems of what they term a “Zombie Thesis”: a thesis that although it has all the parts, such as title pages, chapters, graphs and charts, somehow isn’t quite hanging together well enough to make it a good and interesting […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in June
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of June. A couple of these are publicly available now: Film Hierophany: Analysing the Sacred in Avant-garde Films from the 1920s to 1950s. By Lalipa Nilubol. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20431 Participation and Agency: the experiences of young people in a […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in May
We had an incredible bumper crop of theses being added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of May. Congratulations to all those who have successfully completed their doctorates! A critical study of international higher education development: capital, capability, and a dialogical proposal for academic freedom as a responsibility. By […]
Security risk: Change your Web of Science personal password
Thomson Reuters, the producers of the Web of Science platform, have recommended that you should change your password if you have registered with your own personalised account on any of their services. (Note you do not need to take any action if you simply access Web of Science via the University Portal. This change […]
Growth of STORRE boosted by University’s RMS
STORRE, the University’s Open Access repository for our research publications, has been growing steadily over the last few years. But a recent graph produced by OpenDOAR (a directory of academic open access repositories) has provided a wonderful visual display of how the launch of the University’s Research Management System (RMS) in 2012 has given a […]
Happy DNA Day!
Yes, there really is such a thing as “DNA Day”. See the Wikipedia entry! Sixty one years ago today, on the 25th April 1953, the journal Nature published a revolutionary paper by Francis Crick and James D Watson. With crucial help from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, they had built a coherent, credible model […]
Accessing ejournals and library databases – now working
Earlier today I posted that there were problems accessing many of the library’s electronic journals and databases. This was due to our authentication system, EZProxy, failing. Fortunately EZProxy is now up and working again. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. If you encounter any continued access problems, please contact the Information Centre: infocentre@stir.ac.uk […]
Problems accessing ejournals and library databases
There is currently a problem accessing many of the library’s electronic journals and databases. We are currently investigating the issue which is related to one of our authentication systems (EZProxy) failing. Unfortunately the fault prevents you connecting to the ejournal or database. We apologise for this inconvenience and will post again as soon as […]