To get into the Christmas spirit, why not take a look at our new Archives and Special Collections online Advent calendar? See a different treasure from our collections every day! http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/advent/ For more information about our Archives and Special Collections, see http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/libraries/collections/spcoll/index.php
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Winner of 2010 Man Booker Prize announced
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction. The Stirling Campus Library has copies of the previous winners of this prize and a list can be viewed here. The Finkler Question is on order for the Stirling Campus Library, in the meantime you can borrow Howard Jacobson’s first novel If you are interested […]
ZETOC – 10 years of keeping researchers up to date
ZETOC (the British Library’s Table of Contents alerting service) is ten years old this Autumn. This multidisciplinary search tool offers a current awareness service for researchers and is a useful way to keep up to date with what is being published in your field. ZETOC Alert allows you to register your topics of interest, or a list of your […]
Last few days to win an iPod Nano from Emerald
Want to win an iPod Nano? To enter the prize draw only for Stirling University Students, use Emerald e-journals and answer a few questions in the Emerald quiz . Emerald can be accessed via the University Portal from the A-Z Online Resources.  It includes 110 journals on marketing,  management, business,  human resources and other subjects.
Looking for academic journal articles about the financial crisis?
Routledge publishing have compiled 65 free academic journal articles about the causes and impacts of the financial crisis. There are eight categories of article: causes of the financial crisis, financial crisis impact and management, regional focus on the financial crisis, learning from the financial crisis, the financial crisis as a crisis of capitalism, opportunities emerging from […]
Want to win a £50 book token?
To be in with a chance of winning try out the treasure hunt in the Stirling Campus Library. Pick up an entry form and the first clue from the Reception Desk at the entrance. Solve the clue on the first card and then move on the next location to get the next clue. There are 14 […]
Award-winning feature
The Department of Film, Media & Journalism’s 2010 Jonathan Witchell Prize for Best Student Radio Feature has been awarded to ‘Finding Norman’, a piece about the Stirling-born experimental filmmaker Norman McLaren. You can listen to the feature here.  A collection of McLaren’s papers and artwork is held in the University Archives and a small […]
Looking for historical newspaper articles? Try the Times Digital Archive
The Library has recently purchased the digital archive of the Times newspaper from 1785 to 1985. This resource allows users to search and browse the full text of two hundred years of the Times newspaper and is much easier to use than the microfilm collection. The Times Digital Archive is available from on and off campus and […]
Study Zone closed weekend of 31st July & 1st August
The Study Zone on the Stirling Campus will be closed from 7pm on Friday 30th July until 8:30am on Monday 2nd August. Alternative study space is available in the 4W corridor and alternative computer facilities are available in the Cottrell Building.
New look for IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
IBSS is now available from the CSA platform, rather than from EBSCO. The content of the database is unaltered. It is possible to search IBSS and Sociological Abstracts simultaneously by selecting the two resources from the “specific databases” option. IBSS is a useful resource for anyone researching in the fields of politics, social sciences and economics.