The library catalogue is changing this summer and we’re looking for volunteers to take part in a two-part observational usability study. You will need to be free to come to the Stirling or Highland campus library for 15 mins between 9 – 5 Mon to Fri w/c 25th July and again for 15 mins between […]
Category: IT News
PATHFOOT COMPUTER LABS
As part of the ongoing “School Integration; Proposed Strategic Space Rationalisation” initiative the G corridor is being reconfigured and repurposed as staff office accommodation. The teaching and study pc labs have been de-commissioned and will be re-established in the Pathfoot Study Centre, rooms SC1, SC2 and adjacent mezzanine area. It is anticipated that the labs […]
Staff file store
We are currently undertaking an upgrade to the servers which support staff filestore (carron, dochart, esk, kelty, inchna, ness). This work is being undertaken up until the end of March (see schedule below) but we wanted to let you know about a couple of really nice features that will be available to you after your […]
Problem with ArticleRequest Service – now fixed
The problem we were experiencing with the ArticleRequest Service has now been fixed. The central server for ArticleRequest, managed by our library system supplier, experienced an “unforeseen outage”, this was causing links to the full-text PDF files to fail. The service has now been fully restored and ArticleRequest links to PDF files are working again. If you have any problems […]
IT security – How savvy are you?
Reminder – Quiz closes March 19th. Are you super secure or are there a few areas which need tightened? Information Services have prepared a short IT security quiz in Succeed for staff to take. It should take under 10 minutes to complete with 14 multiple choice/true or false answers. The purpose of the exercise is […]
Problem with ArticleRequest Service
There are currently problems accessing the PDF files requested via our ArticleRequest Service. The full-text PDF files provided by this service are stored on a central server and links to this server are currently failing. We are investigating this problem urgently and will post again when we have any news. We apologise for the […]
Turnitin Downtime
Turnitin services may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 15.00 to 19.00.
Upgrade to student filestore and introducing Box
On Tuesday 23rd February (during the Reading Week), Information Services will be undertaking an upgrade to the servers that host student network file store (home folders). The upgrade will make the service more resilient and will be undertaken between 6-7:30 on Tuesday morning to inconvenience as few people as possible. All existing files will […]
IT security – how savvy are you ?
Are you super secure or are there a few areas which need tightened? Information Services have prepared a short IT security quiz in Succeed for staff to take. It should take under 10 minutes to complete with 14 multiple choice/true or false answers. The purpose of the exercise is to discover the general level […]
New semester: new technology – introducing Box for students
Undergraduate and taught postgraduate students at all our campuses now have access to Box, our cloud storage tool which was launched on Monday 18th January 2016. Box offers our students an unlimited cloud based option for storing documents. Using Box makes it very easy to share documents and work collaborative on group projects. To find […]