The Stirling campus library is now on extended opening hours until 16 December. Full details below:  Extended Exam Hours From 14 November 2011 – 16 December 2011 inclusive  Monday – Friday 08.30 – 2am (Self Service from 8pm) Saturday/Sunday 10.00 – 2am (Self Service from 5pm) Â
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Try it before it goes! BioOne Trial Ends 18th Nov
Studying or researching Science? Let us know what you think of BioOne. You can access BioOne via the Portal‘s A-Z list of online resources. Here is more information from the providers: For more details and to give us feedback, please contact Lisa Haddow or Elizabeth Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews Subject Librarian
Open Access Week 24-30th Oct 2011
To celebrate Open Access week, read inspirational stories collated by Knowledge Exchange to celebrate the power and influence of Open Access publishing. The Knowledge Exchange expresses the vision: ‘To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.’ For more information, see the Knowledge Exchange webpages. What the Knowledge Exchange say […]
ACM Digital Library Online Training
Online training for Computing Science students! The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library are holding an online training event. Â The session will run from from 11:00am (EDT) until 12:00pm (EDT) on October 20th 2011. It is designed as an introductory session for the Author, Institutional, & Publication Profile Pages. Â To join the […]
New Social Study Zone now open
The area in between the new Library entrance and the Atrium fast food bar (formerly used as the Interim library) has now been reopened to students as the Social Study Zone. This is an extension to the existing study space available in the Library and the Atrium areas. The concept of “social learning space” is central […]
Loss of Internet Connectivity, Friday 21/10/11 22:00 – Saturday 22/10/11 07:00
We have been notified by our service provider that due to motorway construction work, the telecoms fibres which provide the university with JANET and Internet connectivity will be disconnected for 4-8 hours during the stated window. This work also affects our backup circuit, so there will be no external connectivity whatsoever during the outage. Â […]
Proquest databases down for maintenance, Sun 23 October
Proquest, the supplier of many of our online databases will be performing maintenance on Sun 23 October from 3am til 3pm.  This will mean that many of our online databases may not be available including:  • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) • ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts • Biological Sciences […]
MathSciNet online tutorials now available
MathSciNet is a database of journal articles in mathematics; it is the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.  You can access MathSciNet from the A-z list of online resources from the Portal.  The online tutorials, available here: http://www.mathscinet.info/index.html can help you use the database to find articles by author, publication or […]
BioOne 6 week trial
BioOne has a current collection of 167 titles from 125 publishers in biology, life sciences, ecology, and environmental sciences. Users have access to a broad range of content in an intuitive and easy to use online database. 70% BioOne titles are currently ranked by ISI 40% of current titles are exclusively available through BioOne A […]
Stirling campus library now open to midnight every day / library zoning
In response to feedback from staff and students in the IS Satisfaction Survey, Library opening hours on Stirling campus have now been extended to midnight seven days a week. These hours will be further extended to 2am during the exam periods. Â The Information Centre will close at 8pm with the building staffed by security […]