If you are interested in using moving images, sound clips or pictures to support your teaching, library staff have created a list of quality assured, copyright cleared resources. The list includes film and TV clips, multimedia resources from museums, archival music and sound recordings and much more. See http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/resource-db/subj-list.php?subject=58
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Protecting and using intellectual assets
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has just released a new guide for universities on managing intellectual assets. The new guide provides advice and information for universities to help them understand how they can best use their institution’s intellectual property. This can be an invention, a trade mark, an original design or the application of a […]
New additions to StirGate – arXiv and OAIster
Two new resources, arXiv and OAIster, have recently been added to StirGate. arXiv contains links to the full text of over 600,000 preprints of scientific papers covering disciplines including mathematics, computing science, quantitative biology and statistics. OAIster is a specialist search engine which searches freely available digital resources of interest to the academic community. OAISter includes more […]
New Library Exhibition – the Battle for Scotland
The Battle for Scotland charts the evolution of political election literature throughout the twentieth century. It features examples of election material from all the major political parties relating to Local, General and Scottish elections. The exhibition also focuses on the 1979, 1997 and 2011 Referendums relating to the establishment of a Scottish Parliament and proposed […]
Need information about the Scottish Parliament elections and UK voting referendum?
Elections for the Scottish Parliament and a referendum about the UK voting system will take place on 5th May 2011. The Library’s 2011 election guide has information about the registering to vote, how to vote and how to find out more about the referendum. The guide also contains information about the candidates for the Scottish […]
Forthcoming Library Exhibition
The current exhibition in the Stirling Campus Library, ‘Treasures from our Collections’, will end on Tuesday 26th April. Â A new exhibition will go on display on 2nd May which will provide an historical perspective on Scottish elections with a selection of materials from our political collections. Â If you can’t make it into the Library […]
An international evening of poetry – all welcome
English Studies at the University of Stirling will host an international evening of poetry on 21st April at 7:30pm in A7 in the Pathfoot Building. The evening will feature readings by Kona MacPhee and Sridala Swami, two fresh poetic voices.  Kona MacPhee was raised in Australia. She studied musical composition at Syndey and computer science […]
Connected Histories – British history sources 1500 – 1900
Connected Histories is a brand new resource which searches a range of digital resources relating to British history in the period 1500 – 1900. It cross-searches several key sources for historians including the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, British Newspapers (1600-1900), the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera and the Proceedings of the Old Bailey […]
Nineteenth Century Pamphlet Collection – now available from JSTOR
A new resource for anyone studying or researching nineteenth century British history – the Nineteenth Century Pamphlet Collection is now available from the A-Z list of online resources.  This collection provides access to digitised versions of a range of nineteenth century British pamphlets held in seven UK research libraries. The collection includes:  Bristol Selected […]
Census 2011 – information about completing your form and finding and using historical census data
 The 2011 Census will take place on Sunday 27th March 2011 and everyone living in the UK will be asked to take part. The Census takes place every 10 years and the data gathered is used to decide how taxes are allocated to services such as health, education and transport. A short video about filling in the […]