Students and staff of the University of Stirling now have access to JSTOR Ireland. This is a collection of 75 interdisciplinary journals covering the history, literature, music, art and archaeology of Ireland. More information about JSTOR Ireland and a link to a full list of journals is available here: http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/ireland.  To access JSTOR please use […]
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Charles Dickens at 200, 7th February 2012
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known” (A Tale of Two Cities, 1859) Â 7th February 2012 is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Why not celebrate […]
Resources for Burns Night – 25th January
If you have left if too late to organise a haggis supper why not celebrate the life of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns by visiting the Stirling Campus Library and borrowing some of our books about Burns. If you can’t make it into the Library, the National Burns Collection has a wealth of digitised resources available and the BBC […]
21 years of additional content in The Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive has been expanded and now covers the period 1785 – 2006. Previously the archive covered 1785 – 1985. The interface has also been upgraded and advanced searching is now much easier. The archive is available from the A-Z list of online resources. Â The Times Digital Archive provides students and researchers […]
Robert Leighton and his books
The latest exhibition in the Library features Archbishop Robert Leighton, who was Bishop of Dunblane and then Archbishop of Glasgow in the 17th century. You may be familiar with the Leighton Library in Dunblane, which houses Robert Leighton’s personal collection of books. As 2011 is the 400th anniversary of Leighton’s birth (we don’t know his […]
EU Screen – access to Europe’s televisual heritage
Researchers or students of European cultural history or television history may be interested in the newly relaunched EU Screen Portal, (www.euscreen.eu) This website currently provides access to over 10,000 digital archival television objects from 26 European countries. The collections are expected to grow to contain 30,000 resources by September 2012. EU Screen allows researchers to view and compare coverage of significant historical events […]
ESRC Festival of Social Science
To mark the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Festival of Social Science (29th October to 5th November 2011) we will be highlighting some of the Library’s social science resources on our Twitter account. More information about the Festival is available here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/  Various events are planned for the festival, which aims to demonstrate how social […]
New look ZETOC coming in November
ZETOC, the British Library’s electronic table of contents alerting service, will be upgraded on 15th November 2011. ZETOC provides information about over 28,000 journals and 45 million article citations and conference papers. It covers all academic disciplines and is available from the A-Z list of online resources.  The upgrade to ZETOC will improve data accuracy, […]
Norman MacCaig: the life and the poems
Born 100 years ago in Edinburgh, Norman MacCaig produced poetry known for its humour, simplicity of language and popularity. While he lived and worked in the city of his birth, he preferred to spend his summers in Assynt in the North West Highlands. Professor Emeritus Rory Watson, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, founding […]
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities – a new online guide
The London School of Economics has published a new guide to using Twitter for academic and research staff. The online guide describes the practicalities of setting up a Twitter profile and gives advice about writing tweets, finding other academic staff or researchers who use Twitter and how Twitter can be used in a teaching context. […]