The StirGate service continues to expand with several additional databases now available to include in your search. Once you have run a search, a list of the additional databases is available from the right hand side of the search screen. You can add results from as many additional databases as you would like.  The new […]
Category: Databases
John Johnson Collection – an archive of printed ephemera
Students and staff can now access the John Johnson Collection – a fascinating online resource for anyone studying or researching British social history from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection contains over 67,000 digitised documents and is divided into the following categories: 19th century entertainment the booktrade popular prints crime, murders and […]
New semester – new and improved StirGate service
Information Services has invested in a replacement for our StirGate service. This new and improved service simultaneously searches many Library resources and offers a new, efficient way of searching for academic information. StirGate is available on and off campus from the A-Z list of online resources or from the Resources tab in the University Portal. What […]
New resource for law students
A new single place to search for the legislative content currently held on the OPSI website (original unconsolidated) and revised legislation from the Statute Law Database is now available http://www.legislation.gov.uk
StirGate is changing – help us choose a new name
Information Services is investing in a new search tool to help students and staff find quality information resources. This will replace our StirGate service. This new toool will search simultaneously across many of the Library’s databases such as Web of Science, Historical Abstracts, CINAHL and Business Source Premier as well as our electronic journal and […]
New subject research guide for Environmental History
A new subject research guide for Environmental History has been produced by Library staff. This guide brings together a list of the major databases and journal archives of interest to those studying or researching environmental history as well providing a list of recommended websites. The research guide can be seen here. You can keep up to […]
ZETOC – 10 years of keeping researchers up to date
ZETOC (the British Library’s Table of Contents alerting service) is ten years old this Autumn. This multidisciplinary search tool offers a current awareness service for researchers and is a useful way to keep up to date with what is being published in your field. ZETOC Alert allows you to register your topics of interest, or a list of your […]
Last few days to win an iPod Nano from Emerald
Want to win an iPod Nano? To enter the prize draw only for Stirling University Students, use Emerald e-journals and answer a few questions in the Emerald quiz . Emerald can be accessed via the University Portal from the A-Z Online Resources.  It includes 110 journals on marketing,  management, business,  human resources and other subjects.
Looking for academic journal articles about the financial crisis?
Routledge publishing have compiled 65 free academic journal articles about the causes and impacts of the financial crisis. There are eight categories of article: causes of the financial crisis, financial crisis impact and management, regional focus on the financial crisis, learning from the financial crisis, the financial crisis as a crisis of capitalism, opportunities emerging from […]
Looking for historical newspaper articles? Try the Times Digital Archive
The Library has recently purchased the digital archive of the Times newspaper from 1785 to 1985. This resource allows users to search and browse the full text of two hundred years of the Times newspaper and is much easier to use than the microfilm collection. The Times Digital Archive is available from on and off campus and […]