We are planning a series of posts throughout the week so here’s one on what OPENAIRE are planning to do this week: OpenAIRE webinars As OA week is a truly international event, OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) has scheduled a full week of webinars on various exciting Open Science topics. During the […]
Category: Academic staff
Succeed Upgrade – Downtime for maintenance
On Monday 24 October there is planned downtime for some essential maintenance to Succeed. Please note that the planned downtime is 7.00am-11.00am. There are two pieces of work planned for Monday: Upgrade to cumulative update 3 for our release of Succeed. This is bug fixes and has no new features but it does fix a […]
Malicious telephone calls
Please be advised that a number of staff have reported receiving telephone calls from unknown or other external numbers on their University extensions, which appear to be malicious cold-callers. Typically, the phone calls have been either accident-claim companies, or individuals claiming to be from the University IT department and/or ‘Windows Technical Support’, requesting access to […]
Cloud computing webinars in October – learn more about Box
Free online training sessions about using Box, Stirling’s cloud storage tool, are now open for booking. More information and a link to sign up can be found here. Box offers all students and staff at the University of Stirling free, unlimited cloud storage and provides anytime, anywhere and any device access to your files. […]
Changes to the Library Catalogue this summer
Over the summer Information Services will be making significant changes to the Library catalogue. Once upgrades are completed the catalogue will have a more contemporary look and it will be possible to search not only our printed books and journals, but our online resources at the same time. What do I need to do […]
Endnote training in August – sign up now
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) […]
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. […]