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 […]
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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 […]
EndNote Online downtime 13th October
We’ve received notification from EndNote that their online service will be undergoing maintenance on Saturday 13th October from 10am to 5pm. Please note that during this time the following will be affected: EndNote web will redirect to a maintenance message ResearcherID services will be unavailable Web of Science save to EndNote online and record […]
New Google Dataset Search
Google has launched ‘Dataset Search’, a new search engine to help find datasets that are freely available. The service is aimed at “scientists, data journalists, data geeks, or anyone else” (so you should fall into one of these categories!). Datasets tend to be spread across many different repositories on the web. This new search engine […]
Plan S: Game changer for Research Funders and Open Access
On the 4th of September a radical initiative was unveiled that plans to make publicly funded research in 11 European countries, including the UK, accessible for free by 2020. The initiative is built around ‘Plan S’, which consists of one target and 10 principles (shown below). The core target is: “By 2020 scientific publications […]
Finding ejournals just got easier
We have added a new ‘Ejournals’ search tab to the Library Catalogue that allows you to quickly check if we have full-text access to an electronic journal. The Ejournals tab, links you to an ejournals finder which has some great features: The search box has an auto-suggest feature: as you begin to type, the […]