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 […]
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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. […]
6th October 2011 – National Poetry Day
6th October is National Poetry Day, why not mark the event by borrowing a poetry book from Stirling University Library? A list of our poetry collections is available here. To find out more about National Poetry Day visit: http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/
Expanded CINAHL service – great news for nursing and midwifery students
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to CINAHL Full Text. CINAHL is one of the library’s major electronic resources for locating literature on nursing, midwifery and health related topics. This new version of CINAHL contains the full text from over 600 more journals than the previous version. CINAHL Full Text is […]
Early journal content from JSTOR now freely available
JSTOR have announced that journal content published before 1923 in the United States and before 1870 elsewhere is to be made freely available online to anyone, anywhere in the world. This content covers many disciplines including arts, humanities, politics, economics, mathematics, botany, ecology, law and sociology. Almost half a million articles from over 200 journals […]
Getting started with the Library – workshops for new students
Using a University Library for the first time can be a daunting prospect. To help new students find their way around the Stirling Campus Library Information Services is offering a series of workshops at the beginning of the autumn semester. There is no need to book a place, simply turn up and bring your reading […]
New look for our education databases for the new academic year
Information Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new interface for our databases for education: the British Education Index (BEI), the Australian Education Index (AEI) and ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre). These databases are available from the A-Z List of Online Resources.   The new interface offers direct exporting to RefWorks, quick limits […]
Teachers’ Collection temporarily unavailable
Due to a leak in the Stirling campus Library the Teachers’ Collection is temporarily unavailable. Please ask at the Information Centre if you require access to this collection. We will post an update when we have more information.