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Plan S Implementation Begins: immediate Open Access for Wellcome funded articles
Plan S is a research funders’ initiative to bring about full and immediate Open Access to scholarly publications that result from publicly funded research. A number of research funders have become Plan S compliant from the 1st January, including The Wellcome Trust. The UKRI funders will be following in the second quarter of this year: […]
Stay Cyber secure over the holidays.
As we all prepare to rest over the winter break, Information Services would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of good practices for staying cyber secure over the holidays. Criminals are taking advantage of recent events to craft convincing emails, texts and phone calls to trick you into giving up your personal information. […]
Library Christmas opening hours.
As a number of students will be remaining on campus over the forthcoming vacation period, Information Services will be keeping the library service open over the festive period. The library will be available for study and the ‘click and collect’ service will be in operation for print materials. Please note that study spaces should be […]
APPSANYWHERE, YOUR UNI APP STORE
Access University software anywhere! Just like you use Netflix to stream your favourite shows, you can now use AppsAnywhere to stream the software you need. Apps anywhere is an external platform provider which we are adopting, to host your University software and apps in one place. A huge benefit to AppsAnywhere is that you will now be able to access almost […]
What your password says about you
Take the quiz and find out what your password says about you! Answer yes or no to the following: 1 pt: Your password does not contain your name or the names of family, partners or pets. — / 15 0 – 4 points – The Hacker’s Helper Uh oh! It looks like you are not […]
UniDesk Moves to the TopDesk Cloud
Our UniDesk system is moving to the TopDesk cloud. This work not only moves us to the TopDesk cloud but includes an upgrade from the current version 7.04 to 10.02.005. The upgrade is scheduled for the evening of Monday 2nd November from 5pm. The service should be considered at risk all day Tuesday 3rd November, […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository over summer #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, over the summer. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Effect of mycotoxin, deoxynivalenol, in aquaculture reared rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) metabolism. By Rui Mendes Goncalves http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31248 The role of social networking sites in career management skills. By […]
European Cyber Security month
The European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM) is the European Union’s annual campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among EU citizens and organisations, and to providing up-to-date online security information through awareness-raising and sharing of good practices. We will be publishing a series of blog posts and also sharing the content from the European Union’s campaign. For the […]
One more page…..
The first meeting of the University book club “One more page…” will be in conjunction with our Libraries Week event where we will be having a panel discussion with Abir Mukherjee. The book group is being started as part of the #BeConnected programme designed to keep you connected with the University community. This programme is […]