There are currently issues accessing content on the Emerald Publishing website. After their recent site relaunch, that hasn’t gone as smoothly as planned: While Emerald and our LibrarySearch supplier work on permanent fixes – here’s the workarounds we’ve put in place so that you can continue to access Emerald content: 1. Access Emerald via our […]
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New: Articles Citing Retracted Research Now Flagged in LibrarySearch
To help protect research integrity, LibrarySearch now flags not just retracted articles – but also articles that cite retracted research. Why this matters Retracted articles often contain serious issues such as errors, ethical problems, or false data. Using them, even unknowingly, can: LibrarySearch already alerts you when an article itself has been retracted. Now, it […]
Library Systems and Services Downtime, 12-13 July
Due to important data migration work by our Library systems supplier (Ex Libris), many services will experience downtime over 12th – 13th July. See details below on what to expect. Planned Downtime The migration process will take place over the weekend of 12–13 July 2025 with up to 24 hours of downtime expected between 6am Saturday 12th July […]
Windows 11 is coming
Windows 11 is Coming to University Devices By now, many of your personal devices may already be running Windows 11. With Windows 10 support ending in October, it’s time for our University devices to make the move too. Between now and October, Information Services will be upgrading all staff and student lab devices currently running […]
Changes to Historic Environment Scotland web services, including SCRAN
We have just learned that several Historic Environment Scotland (HES) web services will be retired on 24th June 2025. This includes the following resources: SCRAN Canmore Scotland’s Places The good news is that content is being transferred to a new website trove.scot. The website is live now, though content is still being transferred from the […]
ESTC is back!
Anyone interested in book history will be glad to know that the ESTC (English Short Title Catalogue) is available again. The catalogue hosted by the British Library had been unavailable since the cyber attack in October 2023. The ESTC is now being hosted by CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries). The ESTC is a bibliography […]
We Want Your Feedback on Ebooks!
We are constantly striving to improve our ebook collection at the University of Stirling Library, and we need your help! We would love to hear your thoughts and experiences with our ebooks. How do you access our ebooks? Do you use the additional features? What other titles should we buy? (if available) We value your […]
AppsAnywhere maintenance
On Tuesday 4th March during reading week AppsAnywhere will be down for a period of maintenance for approximately 1 hour from 9:00. There will be no impact on CloudPaging player or any software you are already running from it. If you have any questions about this please contact information.centre@stir.ac.uk
We Want Your Feedback on the University App!
We hope you’re enjoying the University app and finding it useful for your academic and campus life. In Information Services we strive to improve and enhance your experience, we would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. What do you think about the University app? We want to know what features you find most helpful […]
Library support for Open Access ebook publishing
The Library is keen to support open access publishing where possible. One of the ways we do this is by contributing to a publisher’s open access book publishing programme, so that book titles can be made freely available to everyone. MIT Press Direct to Open We have participated in the MIT Press Direct to Open […]