You can now subscribe to an RSS feed of the Information Services news headlines – simply click on the RSS symbol to get updates. RSS is a useful way to keep up to date with changes to webpages, journal contents, news feeds, etc. You can subscribe to RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7, or by […]
Category: IT News
WebCT Upgrade: Saturday 16th August
WebCT will be unavailable for the upgrades to version 8.0.1 and disk storage on Saturday, 16 th August. I expect the system to be down between 10.00-14.00. The upgrade of the file storage should bring performance and stability benefits. Â WebCT 8 is not a major upgrade (there was no WebCT 7) but rather some […]
Improvements to staff email system
The staff email system is being improved by the replacement of all of the servers and the storage hardware, and implementation of the latest version of the email server software (Microsoft Exchange 2007). These changes will make the system faster and more resilient in the event of hardware failures. The standard mail quota is also […]
Reminder: Shibboleth and EZProxy arriving soon
From 31st July 2008 JISC will cease funding for the Athens Access Management System currently used to provide authenticated access to many of the Library’s web based subscription resources such as online journals, abstract databases, and e-books.  To replace Athens , Information Services are implementing two new Access Management systems: Shibboleth and EZProxy. Both […]
New SPAM rules to go live on staff email
Auto deletion of high-scoring SPAM will start on 20th June  You may recall that, on 7th April 2008, Information Services announced a pilot to test the viability of automatically deleting incoming email messages which had a high probability of being spam (see our SPAM pilot web page for details).  Users were invited to send […]
Stirling’s Super STORRE goes Global
On 9th April the University announced that it had become the first academic institution in the UK to oblige staff to make all their published research available online. This press release on the Portal has further details.  Professor Ian Simpson, our Deputy Principal (Research and Knowledge Transfer), was quoted:  “We believe that the […]
Changes to staff email relating to SPAM
Information Services seeks your feedback during a pilot of a system that will reduce the amount of effort you have to put into managing SPAM in your email. We especially want your input if you are one of the people who is concerned that important messages may be lost because they are incorrectly tagged as […]
Staff IT Courses April – Stirling Campus
Please find below details of the Staff IT courses which start the second week of April (Mon 7th). These sessions are available to all staff and research postgraduate students. The full course schedule along with descriptions is available at: http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/help/training/current.php Booking is now done online via webct:https://webct.stir.ac.uk/webct/logon/2151425001. An online guide which describes how to sign […]