At next week’s Research Bites session we are playing the Publishing Trap game. The session is on Wednesday June 27th (12.30-1.30pm, PGR Zone – library). The game’s main aim is to help academics and researchers understand that scholarly communication is a balancing act between the need to get published and make impact and to get […]
Category: Academic staff
What’s happening in the Library over the summer.
Over the summer there will be a few exciting changes in the Library. To allow for this the seminar room will be unavailable for most of the summer. Firstly we have invested in brand new self-issue machines, which we will be installing over the summer. With these machines, you will be able to place your stack of books onto the […]
Research Bites – summer 2018 programme
Research Bites is a programme of lunchtime briefings that occur over the summer to develop researchers professionally and personally. These sessions are organised by Information Services and RIS, but a number of academic/research staff also contribute. All the sessions take place on a Wednesday at 12.30 to 1.30. If you want please bring your lunch […]
Top ten papers from our Research Repository in May #StirTopTenPapers
During May there were 32,787 downloads from our University repository, STORRE, covering 4,367 research publications. The top ten downloaded items were: 1. A Systematic Review of the Impact of Summative Assessment and Tests on Students’ Motivation for Learning. By Harlen, Wynne; Crick, Ruth Deakin; Broadfoot, Patricia; Daugherty, Richard; Gardner, John; James, Mary; Stobart, […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in May #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Environmental Harshness and its Effect on Appetite and the Desire for Conspicuous Signalling Products. By James Swaffield http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27239 Does the way in which the latent phase (early […]
UniDesk upgrade
UniDesk, the enquiry management system used by Information Services, the Student Services Hub and the Faculty of Social Sciences was upgraded today. Our initial estimate was that the system would be unavailable all day on Wednesday 23rd and would be reinstated on Thursday 24th. The upgrade went well and the UniDesk was live before 1pm […]
Top ten papers from our Research Repository in April #StirTopTenPapers
During April there were 39,293 downloads from our University repository, STORRE, covering 4,296 research publications. The top ten downloaded items were: 1. A Systematic Review of the Impact of Summative Assessment and Tests on Students’ Motivation for Learning. By Harlen, Wynne; Crick, Ruth Deakin; Broadfoot, Patricia; Daugherty, Richard; Gardner, John; James, Mary; Stobart, Gordon http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19607 […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in April #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during April. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Reflexivity and the process of maturation of students in a work-based learning programme. By Evgueni Chepelin http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27069 Investigating the divergent regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism by different […]
Altmetric: now covering patents
Tracking patent citations is one important way to understand the economic impacts of scholarship. Altmetric are now indexing citations to research found in 8 million patents from nine jurisdictions worldwide, including World Intellectual Property Organization, United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the European Patent Office. You can now use patent citation data […]
Unpaywall: find free, legal, Open Access articles
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could quickly check if there’s a free version of a paper when the library doesn’t have access? Well, now you can – using the super-smart ‘Unpaywall’ tool. Unpaywall is an extension to your web browser that finds free versions of otherwise paywalled papers from a database of about 10 […]