Historic Books, our access to Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and the British Library Nineteenth Collection has a new name and a new interface. Now known as Historical Texts, this service provides access to digitised versions of over 350,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals from the late 15th to 19th centuries. […]
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Security risk: Change your Web of Science personal password
Thomson Reuters, the producers of the Web of Science platform, have recommended that you should change your password if you have registered with your own personalised account on any of their services. (Note you do not need to take any action if you simply access Web of Science via the University Portal. This change […]
New multi-media resources
Two new multi-media collections have recently become available: The British Pathé Collection and the London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News Audio Archive. The British Pathé Collection contains 85,000 historic films which cover the period 1896-1976. The collection is varied, but is particularly strong in its coverage of the First and Second World Wars. This […]
Accessing ejournals and library databases – now working
Earlier today I posted that there were problems accessing many of the library’s electronic journals and databases. This was due to our authentication system, EZProxy, failing. Fortunately EZProxy is now up and working again. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. If you encounter any continued access problems, please contact the Information Centre: infocentre@stir.ac.uk […]
Problems accessing ejournals and library databases
There is currently a problem accessing many of the library’s electronic journals and databases. We are currently investigating the issue which is related to one of our authentication systems (EZProxy) failing. Unfortunately the fault prevents you connecting to the ejournal or database. We apologise for this inconvenience and will post again as soon as […]
Google Scholar links to WebBridge working again
I recently posted that there was a problem with our links to WebBridge in GoogleScholar not appearing. These Links normally open the WebBridge window that allows you to check whether Stirling has access to the full-text of the reference. I’ve now heard from our WebBridge supplier that this problem is fixed. Hurrah! I’m sorry […]
Progress on Google Scholar links to WebBridge
I recently posted that there is a problem with our links to WebBridge in GoogleScholar not appearing. There has now been some progress to report – here’s what the rep from the WebBridge supplier has told us: “Good news is that Google crawled the site map file on Saturday [12th April]. Bad news is […]
Google Scholar links to WebBridge not working
There is currently a known problem with the Library links in Google Scholar that go to WebBridge. Our WebBridge supplier, Innovative, know about this problem and they are investigating. What this means is that in Google Scholar results you will not currently see the “Univ. of Stirling Links”. These Links normally open the WebBridge […]
First World War newspaper articles
August 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. To facilitate access to research in this field Cengage Learning have made made several newspaper articles from the period freely available online. Topics include: the prelude to war, the Western Front, keeping the Germany Army at bay, Germany’s advance, America joins the […]
New from StirGate – Research Starters
Research Starters are a new feature of StirGate. They are summaries of a topic and are constructed from credible and reliable sources including Encyclopedia Britannica and reference books from Salem Press. There are approximately 60,000 Research Starters in StirGate covering topics as diverse as autism, badminton, classroom management, diabetes, global warming, monetary policy, Voltaire and Scottish law. Over […]