Following last week’s posting about the launch of Endnote bibliographic software, Information Services is pleased to announce a number of training sessions in August. Wednesday 3rd August – workshops delivered by a trainer from Endnote Endnote Desktop Fundamentals (9:30 – 11) – read more, and book now. Endnote Online for off campus use (11:30 – 12:30) […]
Category: Academic staff
Altmetric for Institutions: now with added citations
Altmetric for Institutions have now added Scopus citation counts (and the 3 most recent citing articles) to a new ‘citations’ tab on the Altmetric details pages. The addition of this citations data will make it easier to compare academic and broader attention all in one place. More information about this is available here. […]
New Research Bites workshop added – social media for public engagement
Information Services and the Research and Enterprise Office are pleased to announce an extra workshop in our summer Research Bites workshop series. Professor Leigh Sparks, Professor Rachel Norman and Professor Paul Cairney will lead a workshop about using social media for public engagement activities on 30th August 2016 between 12 pm and 1 pm. All […]
Learn something new this summer with our Research Bites workshops
Want to brush up your social media skills, explore online video conferencing, learn about Stirling’s research management system or discover who is talking about your research? Workshops on these topics and more are now open for booking as part of the summer 2016 Research Bites series from Information Services and the Research and Enterprise Office. Workshops are open to […]
Reminder about REF Compliance for your Publications
In order for papers to be returnable for the next REF, if you have a peer-reviewed journal article, systematic review, or conference paper in formal publication that was accepted for publication after 1st April 2016, the Author’s Accepted Manuscript must be deposited into STORRE via RMS within 3 months of acceptance. Guidance is available here. […]
Complying with the REF OA Policy
To comply with the REF policy, Stirling researchers should submit their publication details to the Research Management System (RMS) and attach the full-text PDF file of their final peer-reviewed manuscripts. The PDF file will be copied to STORRE, the University’s institutional repository. Follow the steps below: A PDF version of Complying With REFs Open Access Policy […]
Staff file store
We are currently undertaking an upgrade to the servers which support staff filestore (carron, dochart, esk, kelty, inchna, ness). This work is being undertaken up until the end of March (see schedule below) but we wanted to let you know about a couple of really nice features that will be available to you after your […]
IT security – How savvy are you?
Reminder – Quiz closes March 19th. Are you super secure or are there a few areas which need tightened? Information Services have prepared a short IT security quiz in Succeed for staff to take. It should take under 10 minutes to complete with 14 multiple choice/true or false answers. The purpose of the exercise is […]
Were you lucky enough to get an Apple Watch for Christmas?
Get the most from your new smartwatch with these expert Apple Watch tips and tricks. This online course shows you how to customise Glances, set haptic strength, customise and clear notifications, quickly sildence the Apple Watch, arrange apps and quickly switch between them, and use Siri effectively.
Research data@Stirling
As announced earlier this week, DataSTORRE has been launched. DataSTORRE is an online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. The first researcher at Stirling to deposit data is Peter Matthews, a lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. His deposit is a video of a poetry reading at Wester […]