StirGate is Stirling’s academic search engine. It will help you locate books and journal articles for your essays, reports and research. It searches many of the library’s electronic resources including the library catalogue, several large databases (including Historical Abstracts, Business Source Premier, PsycINFO, CINAHL, ERIC etc) and many of the library’s electronic journal archives (including […]
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Web 2.0 Teach Meet for Researchers
Do you use any Web 2.0 technology in your research? Would you like to share your experience with other researchers at the University of Stirling at an informal Teach Meet event? The University of Stirling’s inaugural Web 2.0 Teach Meet event will take place on Tuesday 27th March from 2pm until 4pm in the Enterprise […]
Getting started with the library – free training sessions
Getting started with a University Library can be a daunting prospect. To help overcome this Information Services is running two free training sessions on 27th and 28th February 2012 which will cover:  how to search the library catalogue finding printed and electronic books finding printed and electronic journals how to use the short loan area […]
British Library Sounds – discover 50,000 sound recordings
British Library Sounds is a gateway to explore an amazingly diverse collection of sound recordings. Previously known as Archival Sound Recordings this resource was relaunched at the end of January 2012. To access British Library Sounds use the A-Z list of online resources. Â Here are some of the types of recordings British Library Sounds […]
JSTOR Ireland – new resource added to A-Z list
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 […]
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 […]