New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in November #StirNewTheses Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during November. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: The Relationship Between Maximal Strength and Performance Measures: A Correlational Study. By Scott Vallance http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28082 […]
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Google Scholar Button
I just came across the Google Scholar button by chance and it seems pretty handy (actually this is old news that I’m ashamed to say I’m just catching up with!). The extension is available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari – it adds a little button to your browser toolbar. Then you can select […]
Kudos webinar November 20th
Kudos is a free service, provided in partnership with the University, that helps you increase and track attention for your published work. Sign up for the webinar taking place this month: Boosting visibility and impact of your research – a (re)introduction to Kudos Tuesday 20th Nov, 3pm Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8578394512159827202 Description: What […]
Wellcome funder: new open access policy
The research funder Wellcome has published details of its new open access (OA) policy which will come into effect on 1 January 2020. The policy will require all research articles that arise from Wellcome funding to be made freely available at the time of publication. Embargoes will no longer be permitted. They are not changing their policy […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in September & October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during September and October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Professional doctoral students and the doctoral supervision relationship: negotiating difficulties. By Margot Kirkland http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27852 Young People, Enterprise and Social Capital. By Marion Allison http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27885 […]
Free images from Art Institute of Chicago
It’s always nice to be able to brighten up a presentation or document with a beautiful image. So it’s good to hear of another source of amazing pictures. The Art Institute of Chicago is now offering unrestricted access to thousands of images from its digital archive. The images have been made available under the Creative Commons […]
Former student’s flower art sparks thesis digitisation #ThesisThursday
#ThesisThursday has reminded me of one of my favourite older theses that has made it into our Open Access Repository, STORRE. This particular digitisation has a bit of a story behind it. In February 2018 I heard that our alumnus, Janet Watson, had been inspired to make beautiful watercolour paintings of a flower that […]
Growth of Stirling’s eTheses #ThesisThursday
Since this is Open Access Week and today is #ThesisThursday I thought I would share a recent graph that shows the growth of etheses in our repository from the very beginning. We first started accepting theses submissions to our Open Access repository, STORRE, way back in 2005! Then in 2006, we formalised our policy so […]
Altmetric new searches: subject area & author affiliation
Altmetric has recently added two new useful search options. (Altmetric is a tool that tracks online attention surrounding research papers). You can now search across the entire Altmetric database by subject area (using the Fields of Research classification) and by author affiliations (using GRID – a GRID ID or, somewhat easier, the organisation name). […]
EndNote Online downtime 20th October
We’ve received notification from EndNote that their proposed maintenance last weekend was postponed and is now rescheduled for this coming weekend on Saturday 20th October from 10am to 5pm. Please note that during this time: EndNote web will redirect to a maintenance message ResearcherID services will be unavailable Web of Science save to EndNote […]