If you receive a ‘Registration incomplete’ error message when accessing the Westlaw legal databases or any Westlaw resources e.g. articles or books on your reading list, please follow the guidance at https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/law/WestlawTroubleshooting to request that your account be reactivated. This error is likely to happen if your Westlaw account has been inactive for a period […]
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Westlaw – Registration Incomplete Error
Some students are currently unable to access the Westlaw legal database and books or journal articles published by Westlaw. This does not affect all students. This issue is being investigated urgently by both Westlaw and Information Services staff. Typically students receive a message saying “Registration Incomplete” and are then taken to a Sign in page […]
Access to Financial Times Restored
Our access to the Financial Times (FT.com) should now be restored. As advertised previously, our access is now by SSO (single sign on) using your University email account. See our How to Sign In or Register for the FT guide which is available on the newspaper subject guide https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/newspapers. If you still experience any difficulties […]
Financial Times – Temporarily Unavailable
We apologise that there is currently no access to FT.com. We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Access to Financial Times Made Easy
The FT’s new ‘Single Sign On’ system makes it easier to sign up for access via the University’s subscription. Any time you come across an FT article simply sign in with your University email address and if required click ‘SSO Sign in‘ and follow any prompts to login to your University account. The first time […]

Core Reading: eTextbooks for Autumn Modules
Teaching staff – if your module has a core text and requires that as an eTextbook (e.g. from Kortext or BibliU), please email the Library or use the eTextbook Request form. eTextbooks must be purchased for each student that uses it and we need your confirmation every year before making that expenditure. Find out more […]

Preparing Your Autumn 2023 Reading List
Teaching staff are invited to create a new Autumn reading list or ‘roll over’ a previous list by clicking on the ‘Reading List’ option in your Autumn 2023 Canvas module. See further guidance on the Reading Lists SharePoint site. Once you have rolled over your list and are happy with your changes (even if you […]

Legacy RefWorks is Discontinued
The older version of RefWorks is discontinued from 30th June 2023 and users no longer have access to it. If you used RefWorks in the last few months but did not upgrade your account, we have attempted to migrate it to new RefWorks for you. You should have received an email notification about this from […]

Policy Commons – On Trial until 30th June 2023
Discover nearly 4 million documents from 28,000+ organisations in more than 160 countries around the world. Includes reports and policy content from IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, research centres, cities and other organizations working on the world’s most pressing and complex problems. A single easy to use source of “real world” impacts in otherwise hard to […]

Upgrade Your RefWorks Account Before End June
Legacy RefWorks will stop working at the end of June. If you are using Legacy RefWorks you will see an “Upgrade to the Latest RefWorks version” button at the top of the screen. If you don’t upgrade soon, you will lose all your references. Before you press the button see our guidance and important considerations prior to upgrading. If […]