The Library now provides access to a collection of 400 digitised books from the 15th to 17th centuries. The collection covers topics from anatomy and botany to witchcraft. This resource will be of interest to anyone teaching or researching European history, the history of medicine or the history of publishing. You can access the collection via the A-Z […]
Category: Databases
Studying or researching health? Free access to ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source 6th – 12th May 2012
To celebrate International Nursing Day on 12th May the Library has free access to ProQuest’s Nursing and Allied Health Source for one week. This database indexes over 1000 journal titles and can be accessed from here.
Library resources for Midwifery – International Day of the Midwife (5th May)
5th May is the International Confederation of Midwives’ International Day of the Midwife and this event gives us a good opportunity to highlight the library’s collections for midwifery. Both the Stirling and Highland campus libraries have extensive printed collections of books midwifery topics. In our Highland Campus Library these are located at the classmarks WQ, WS […]
Disruption to Library databases Sunday 6th May 2012
Due to maintenance by the supplier, several library databases will be unavailable from 3am on 6th May for up to 12 hours. The following databases will not be accessible during this period: ASSIA Aqualine ASFA Australian Education Index Biological Sciences British Education Index British Periodicals British Humanities Index Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management ERIC International Bibliography of […]
Discover StirGate – free training with free muffins
StirGate is Stirling’s academic search engine. It will help you locate books and journal articles for your essays, reports and research. It searches many of the library’s electronic resources including the library catalogue, several large databases (including Historical Abstracts, Business Source Premier, PsycINFO, CINAHL, ERIC etc) and many of the library’s electronic journal archives (including […]
21 years of additional content in The Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive has been expanded and now covers the period 1785 – 2006. Previously the archive covered 1785 – 1985. The interface has also been upgraded and advanced searching is now much easier. The archive is available from the A-Z list of online resources. Â The Times Digital Archive provides students and researchers […]
New look ZETOC coming in November
ZETOC, the British Library’s electronic table of contents alerting service, will be upgraded on 15th November 2011. ZETOC provides information about over 28,000 journals and 45 million article citations and conference papers. It covers all academic disciplines and is available from the A-Z list of online resources.  The upgrade to ZETOC will improve data accuracy, […]
BioOne 6 week trial
BioOne has a current collection of 167 titles from 125 publishers in biology, life sciences, ecology, and environmental sciences. Users have access to a broad range of content in an intuitive and easy to use online database. 70% BioOne titles are currently ranked by ISI 40% of current titles are exclusively available through BioOne A […]
Expanded CINAHL service – great news for nursing and midwifery students
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to CINAHL Full Text. CINAHL is one of the library’s major electronic resources for locating literature on nursing, midwifery and health related topics. This new version of CINAHL contains the full text from over 600 more journals than the previous version. CINAHL Full Text is […]
Historic Books – a new resource for locating literature
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to Historic Books a new resource for locating and accessing literature. Historic Books, from JISC, provides access to over 360,000 online books. It replaces our access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and contains resources accessible from Early English Books Online (EEBO). Also contained in […]