Great news for anyone researching the 19th Century -Â a million extra pages have been added to the 19th Century British Newspaper Collection, taking the total number of pages available from this resource to over 3 million. The 19th Century British Newspaper Collection can be accessed from the A-Z list of online resources, or can be […]
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Want to find out more about volcanoes?
Volcanoes and Iceland are hot topics in the media at the moment. The Stirling Campus Library has a collection of items (books, DVDs and journals) about volcanoes and about Iceland. To help you find these we have created a list of library items about volcanoes and Iceland. To find quality websites about volcanoes we suggest Intute – Geography […]
New electronic book supplier
Members of the University now have access to electronic books from EBL. These books cover a broad range of subject areas including aquaculture, philosophy, IT, nursing and social work. To view the full collection of electronic books available from EBL go to the A-Z list of online resources, select EBL and click on ‘view full catalogue’. Alternatively you will find all […]
Need to find information about the General Election?
The Library’s 2010 General Election guide has information about the parties and candidates who are standing for election in the areas containing or adjoining the University’s three campuses. From this website you can find out who was your last MP, discover how to register to vote, link to manifestos and follow parties on Twitter or Facebook.
Basement library books – Stirling Campus
Throughout the week 12th – 16th April 2010 essential construction work will be taking place in the Library Basement and staff will be unable to collect books during the day. Books will continue to be collected each evening and can be picked up the following day. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Personal Bibliographic Software Survey
At the Stirling campus we have had Reference Manager as the supported personal bibliographic software (PBS) package on campus since 2006. This is a package that stores the references by other people that you as an individual have identified as being useful to your research. As a result of a recent survey of nearly 100 researchers […]
New way to access social care information – changes to ReSearch Web
ReSearch Web – a tool for accessing up to date resources about social care and social work has been incorporated into Social Care Online and Social Services Knowledge Scotland from 1st April 2010. Both of these resources are listed on the A-Z list of online resources and are available from on and off campus. More information about […]
Pathfoot Reference Room C24 closed in mid semester break
The Pathfoot Reference Room C24 will closed during mid semester break. It will reopen at 2pm on 13th April. If anyone requires any resources from the reference room during this period please contact Helen Beardsley, h.r.beardsley@stir.ac.uk
Looking for new books about social work?
The Stirling Campus Library has bought 50 brand new social work books in the last year. A list of these books is available here
Need up to date articles about education in Scotland?
The Scottish Educational Review journal is now available in electronic format. Search the library catalogue for Scottish Educational Review or go to http://www.scotedreview.org.uk/content.php Full text articles are available from 1997 onwards, with abstracts to articles from last two most recent issues also available. If you need the full text from the most recent issues the library […]