Sometimes the book, chapter, or article you need for your assignment just isn’t available on our shelves or through our online subscriptions. The good news? You still have lots of ways to get hold of the materials you need — from requesting items through our Document Delivery Service to visiting other academic and national libraries. […]
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Kortext Functionality
Using a Kortext etextbook this semester? Did you know that you can use the Kortext study+ features to: More information: https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/ebooks
Find Books Faster: New “Available on Shelf Now” Filter in LibrarySearch
Good news if you’re tired of clicking through search results only to find that the book you need is on loan or in storage. LibrarySearch now includes a new filter called “Available on shelf now” to help you find physical items you can pick up immediately. Using the “Available on Shelf Now” filter means, you […]
Emerald access issues – workarounds
Update to post below (19th Sept 2025): most links in LibrarySearch to Emerald collections are now working. The exception is that links to some journals in the ‘Emerald Backfiles’ collection are still not working. This appears to relate to cases where we have access to older volumes of a journal that has since changed name. […]
New: Articles Citing Retracted Research Now Flagged in LibrarySearch
To help protect research integrity, LibrarySearch now flags not just retracted articles – but also articles that cite retracted research. Why this matters Retracted articles often contain serious issues such as errors, ethical problems, or false data. Using them, even unknowingly, can: LibrarySearch already alerts you when an article itself has been retracted. Now, it […]
LibrarySearch now searches reference works
We are constantly working to make the library catalogue, LibrarySearch, even more useful. One new feature is that LibrarySearch now includes online reference works such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Who Was Who, the American National Biography and other dictionaries and encyclopedias. If you do a Search Everything search online reference works will […]
7 million Open Access articles added to LibrarySearch
The Library has added 7 million additional open access articles to LibrarySearch, our one-stop library search tool. These articles come from a new integration with Unpaywall, a massive database of free scholarly articles. Because of our previous work, LibrarySearch already included many of these articles but this integration has given us a boost of around […]
Finding an article using a DOI
There’s a new feature in LibrarySearch which allows you to search for a journal article using a DOI only. Let’s see how this works: If we don’t have access to the article, you’re taken to a page that offers Library Access Options. This takes you to LibrarySearch, where you can request the article using the […]
LibrarySearch now flags retracted articles
You may not realise (but probably guessed) that sometimes journal articles may be retracted because they include either accidental or deliberate errors. The retraction could be due to incorrect experimental or interpretive errors and is to prevent readers from being misled and protects researchers from wasting time and resources by attempting to replicate or utilise […]
Find@Stir – Finding full text articles
As part of the ongoing work improving the Library’s information retrieval systems, we have completed the transition from the old “WebBridge” system to the new Find@Stir tool to facilitate access to full text. The ‘Find@Stir’ function will check the library’s online full text holdings and, where we hold a current licence, will take you directly […]