Congratulations, you made it! Whether you have completed your Undergraduate, Postgraduate taught or Postgraduate Research qualification, there are some tasks you may want to do before your graduation date. At the end of your studies, your access to the University network and services will cease. There are, however, some services that we can offer you […]
Author: trudie
The library will be open 24/7 for exam study
From Monday 1st of April until Friday 10th May the library will be open 24/7 to give students a chance to study for the upcoming exams. For this period, level three of the Library will be changed to silent study space. Level 4 will remain as silent study space. During this period, visitors may be […]
You said, we did – Where do I get help.
You Said I don’t know where to get help We Did We love to help you! There are a number of places in the library that you can get help or ask us a question; Library reception (the desk at the Library entrance)Library reception staff can help you with accessing the library building, they can […]
You said, We did – Make it easier to find journals and ejournals
You Said “Can we have a better way of searching for ejournals.” We Did We have introduced a new service – BrowZine- that allows you to browse (as the name suggests), read and follow our current journal content. This can be done online or via the app that is available for Android and iOS devices. […]
You Said, We Did – Ebooks
You said “Buy more ebooks.” We did: In 2018, we added over 30,000 ebooks to the collection.We did this is a number of ways. For every book order received, we check for the availability of an ebook on a suitable model (e.g. we avoid titles that only allow a single concurrent user) and at a […]
You Said, We Did – Software
You Said Can we get free software for studying? We Did We already have a lot of FREE software that students can download onto their own devices. (Woo Hoo, there is actually a lot of FREE software 🙂 ) Here is a list of the software that you can get for FREE from us with […]
We love you too ….
Thanks so much to everyone who took the time out to write us a letter for Valentine’s day. We were overwhelmed by the response. (We especially liked the person who left us the red rose – We are blushing) On the whole, it seems that we must be doing something right as the majority of […]
New Scam… Smishing (scam by text message).
We have had a report that a student at another University has received a SMS Phishing message (text message) purporting to be from the University. The message states that the student’s attendance is below 60% and as such is in breach of their student loan terms. It then goes on to state that they need […]
You said, We did – FAQs
You Said – “There should be somewhere we can access frequently asked questions.” We Did – We already have FAQs on UniDesk Self-Service Portal, which we add to regularly. You can access these from UniDesk Self-Service from the Portal. Within UniDesk there are a number of tiles, to access all of the FAQs for the […]
Phishing emails
Receiving phishing emails is something that happens with a regular occurrence. We are always happy to help you identify these types of emails. Forward anything you are concerned about to information.centre@stir.ac.uk Recently a member of staff forwarded an email to us that was a very good example. Look at the email below carefully, be suspicious […]