During October there were 33,266 downloads from our University repository, STORRE, covering 3,629 research publications. The top ten downloaded items were: 1. Dimensions of service quality and service climate: a study of bank customers and employees in four local Malaysian banks . By Ab Wahab, Norailis. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1297 Downloads: 628 2. Reporting medication errors and near […]
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Stirling theses digitised from microfilm by British Library EThOS service
We have been working with EThOS on a pilot project to digitise older University of Stirling theses that are part of the British Library’s microfilm collection of UK PhD theses. The microfilm copies were created over many years as part of the pre-EThOS British Thesis Service, and were used to supply thesis loans and […]
Stirling’s #DataSTORRE invited to join SHARE @SHARE_research
We’re delighted to have been invited by SHARE to add DataSTORRE to their list of metadata providers. DataSTORRE is our online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. SHARE is a collaboration between the North American Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Open Science to map […]
Altmetric Profile for any ORCID
Within the new version 2 of our Altmetric for Institutions you can now search by ORCID iD. Increasingly authors are managing their publication lists using ORCID profiles. Now in Altmetric, you can enter any ORCID iD in the main search bar to find the associated Altmetric data for research outputs connected to that ORCID. Make […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Strong is the New Slim: A Study of the Body and Gender Amongst Female Free Weights Users. By Robyn Spice http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24355 What is, and what might be, learned […]
Altmetric – Stirling latest data refresh complete
Altmetric for Institutions at Stirling is a service that monitors and reports on the attention research papers are receiving on the web. Four times a year Stirling sends publication details from our Research Management System (RMS), STORRE and DataSTORRE to Altmetric so they can refresh the data they hold about us. Altmetric then track […]
Open research practices
The results of a survey of Wellcome researchers to find out what they think about open research, how they practice it, and some of the barriers they face have just been published in a report. This work was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and […]
Endnote training for researchers – sign up now
EndNote is our reference management software for researchers. We have an EndNote Fundamentals class coming up: 16th November 11.00 – 12.30 or 7th December 11.30 – 1.00 Location: Training Room 1 on Level 4 of the Stirling Campus Library. The class will give an introduction to the most commonly used EndNote […]
Open Access: Publisher memberships
Publisher memberships The University currently provides a fund of £250k to spend on Open Access: publisher memberships, APC and publication costs. To apply to the APC fund you need to fulfil eligibility criteria – see here for further information and the application form. Many publishers now offer discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs), so […]
Our favourite Open Access films
If you want to learn more about Open Access these are our favourite short films explains what Open Access is and what Licences are. “What is Open Access” “Creative Commons: a shared culture” Don’t forget we have loads of information on our web pages at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/researchers/writing/publishingimpact/open-access/ JISC – Open Access hour: live Twitter […]