Web of Science are offering a couple of useful, free webinars at the end of this month: 11am, September 29th Kick off your academic year with the Web of Science essential tools for researchers Whether you’re an early-career or well-established researcher, the suite of integrated tools from the Web of Science will supercharge your workflow, […]
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Google Scholar Button browser extension update
The Google Scholar Button provides easy access to Google Scholar from any webpage. You can use it to find fulltext on the web or in the university library, format references in widely used citation styles, repeat a web search in Google Scholar or simply look up a reference to a paper. The Google Scholar Button […]
DMPonline service unavailable due to updates on 3rd September
The DMPonline service will be unavailable tomorrow, 3rd September, from 11:00 to 12:30 whilst the Digital Curation Centre make some updates to the service for Stirling users. The updated service will have a new URL (https://dmp.stir.ac.uk) but users should continue to access the service via the University Portal as DMPonline authentication is integrated with the […]
Web of Science How to webinars: Literature Reviews and more
Web of Science are offering these useful free webinars later in July and August: JULY 29 AT 10:00 AM BST | AUGUST 4 AT 2:00 PM EDT Your essential guide to literature reviews Whether you’re starting a review article or your dissertation, embarking on a literature review can feel daunting. Not sure where to start? […]
Journal Citation Reports: 2020 release
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is an immensely useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) and other journal metrics. The Reports also monitor and exclude any journals that demonstrate anomalous citation behaviour. JCR can help you: – identify journals with the highest citation impact in your field […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in May #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: The development of an intervention to support midwives in addressing multiple health behaviours with pregnant women. By Julie McLellan http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31105 Educated Inside: A Scottish Approach to Prisoner Education. By […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in March and April #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during March and April. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Cinema and Cultural Memory in The Bahamas in the 1950s. By Monique Toppin http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30780 Webs of influence: Investigating the effects of the forest mycorrhizosphere on soil carbon […]
New ‘COVID-19: Resources for research’ guide
A number of organisations have created great resources for supporting research into COVID-19. We’ve added these to our new “COVID-19: Resources for research“ Libguide at: https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/covid Here’s the list so far: COVID-19 Research Database (provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO)) WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and […]
Dimensions research discovery platform adds datasets
Dimensions is a research information system that aims to make it easier to find different types of research-related outputs with a free search that covers more than 100 million publication records. Now Dimensions have also added research datasets to their free version, integrating more than 1.5 million datasets as a new content type. Datasets are sourced […]
Unprecedented Facebook URLs Dataset now Available for Academic Research
A gigantic and unique Facebook dataset has been made available to researchers to study questions related to the effects of social media on democracy and elections. Jesse Blumenthal, Director of Technology and Innovation for the Charles Koch Institute, issued a statement saying that the availability of this dataset is: “an important step in addressing society’s […]