Trainers from the Web of Science and EndNote training teams are visiting the University on Tuesday 4th July – come along to improve your research skills. The course aims to: Strengthen Research Discovery Strategies to find the most relevant research Strengthen Research Assessment Practices (assess impact using citation data) Manage Research Information With EndNote See […]
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EndNote X8 Coming Soon for Staff and Research Students
EndNote X8 will be available in the University soon. A few of the new features include: More modern looking icons Share your library with up to 100 people (more info) Activity log shows changes by people sharing your library Now has a ‘Recently Added’ folder Updated to operate with MacOS Sierra 10.12 and Word 2016 on […]
Farewell Stirgate and Welcome to the New Library Catalogue
The Library Catalogue now incorporates the Stirgate journal articles database. You can choose to search only for articles, just for books or to search simultaneously for books and articles. The old Stirgate interface will disappear but you can still search its great content – just go to the Portal and select Library Catalogue . Other […]
Nexis Newspaper Database
Access to the Nexis Newspaper database is currently unavailable due to technical issues. Nexis are working to resolve these and get the system up and running as soon as possible. Nexis provides the text of UK national and regional newspapers plus newspapers, magazines and trade press from across the world. It is an immense source of information […]
IDS Employment Law on Westlaw – One Month Trial
Carry out employment law research with IDS Employment Law Brief, Cases, Handbooks and Current Awareness. Everything from unfair dismissal to annual leave – key topics in employment law are all available in Westlaw during October. Select Westlaw from http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/law and click thee IDS Employment Law tab at the top. Let us know what you think about […]
Maintenance on Emerald Journals Tuesday 4th October
There may be disruption to the Emerald database on Tuesday 4th October affecting the following functions: Search Alert subscriptions Activating access tokens Adding publications as favourites Any changes to ‘My Account’ and ‘Institutional Account’ E-commerce Registration
EndNote now on Campus
Heard about EndNote? Wondered what it is all about? Frustrated that it was not available at Stirling. Need its powerful features for your systematic review? Considered by many researchers globally to be the best reference management tool for research, EndNote is now available for download to staff and research student machines. EndNote is so much […]
Emerald’s Celebration of Sport
Emerald Publishing have highlighted a range of articles in the changing world of sporting research across the globe. The articles are available free to view even if the University does not subscribe to them. See more at Emerald.
EndNote – Coming Soon
Following extensive feedback from the research community on referencing software we are pleased to announce that EndNote will be available on campus later this month. A trainer from EndNote will provide a series of workshops for beginner and experienced users on 3rd August. This will be followed by a series of short introductory workshops for […]
HeinOnline – International Legal Material on Trial until 20th June
International legal material is available in HeinOnline for a trial period to 20th June. To try out HeinOnline International login to Portal and access HeinOnline as usual from the Law Subject Guide or A-Z Online Resources. All the additional content on trial is highlighted. Let us know what you think of the international content at […]