The main university external website and some departmental sites will be unavailable for up to 20 minutes during the ‘At Risk’ period (07:30 to 08:30) on Thursday 22nd July, for essential maintenance. We apologise for this loss of service.  Alan Richardson Systems and Network Services Manager
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Library catalogue planned downtime, Tues 13 July
The library catalogue will be down for maintenance on Tuesday 13th July from 4pm. During this time, the library catalogue and your library record will not be available. The Library will be open as usual and issuing books manually.  We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Trial of sciences resource CABI available now!
If you are researching topics within the environment, agriculture, applied economics or food science have a look at our month trial access to CAB Abstracts. The trial will finish on the 20th July 2010. To access this database go to: http://isiknowledge.com and from the Select a Database tab in Web of Knowledge choose CABI: (1973-present). For a full […]
ChemSpider for your smart phone
Search ChemSpider for chemical structures from your mobile phone. From your phone go to http://cs.m.chemspider.com For the full version go to the Subject Research Guides for Biology or Biochemistry or click on http://www.chemspider.com
Creating a Sustainable Library Collection
Last year, subject librarians and academic colleagues undertook a weeding exercise to ensure that all the key strengths in Library’s stock could be housed in the new building.  Since then the collection has continued to grow and further weeding will be needed as the stock is moved from the interim Library and from off-campus to the […]
Extended Library and Study Zone opening during exam period
The Library and the Study Zone will be open from 9am-2am from Monday 26th April til Wed 2nd June to provide access to resources and study space throughout the exam period. Â Outwith regular library opening hours, the library will be staffed only by security personnel and access is restricted to staff and students of […]
Science now available online!
You can now read online or download the full text of articles, book reviews and reports from the journal Science. After our recent announcement about Nature (available from December 2005 to present), Nature Geoscience (available from January 2008 to present) and Apidologie (available from 2000 to present) we now have electronic access to Science (from 1997 to present).  You […]
Electronic access to Nature, Nature Geoscience and Apidologie
You can now access articles online from the journals Nature, Nature Geoscience and Apidologie. Simply log on to your portal, search for the journals in the catalogue and click on the link.  Elizabeth Andrews Subject Librarian
Calling All Dissertation Students…
To help students with their dissertations this semester, a new web site has been set up. Topics covered include: finding and obtaining information for dissertation research, writing up the dissertation document and the final printing of the dissertation. The web site can be found at: http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/dissertation/index.php    Â
Using Social Bookmarking: Delicious Example
If you have ever lost track of a useful webpage or forgotten how you found that perfect site, a tool that bookmarks your web links might be what you need.   Delicious is a social bookmarking site, which means you create an account (it is free to register with Delicious) where you can list, share and organise your […]