Stirling has joined the MDPI publisher’s free Institutional Open Access Program. The Program is designed to simplify the administrative processes and reduce overheads surrounding the payment of APCs (Article Processing Charges) for Open Access publishing. This will mean that in place of MDPI’s APC invoices being sent to Stirling authors, we will use a “central […]
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UK Data Service introductory training series: Autumn 2021
The UK Data Service is the UK’s largest collection of UK and international social, economic and population data. They provide free access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. The Service contains thousands of data collections, including UK census data, government funded surveys, longitudinal studies, international macrodata, qualitative data, and business microdata. […]
Library back to full capacity
Following the easing of COVID restrictions, the University Library has reopened at full capacity, with levels 2 and 3 open to students without the requirement to book a space. Laptops (on 4 hour loans) and PCs are available for students who wish to join an online class in the library and study zone, but those […]
Stirling joins PNAS Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
Stirling has joined the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences two-year transformational open access pilot agreement negotiated by JISC. The Agreement means that Stirling authors can publish Open Access in PNAS without paying page charges or an Open Access fee. Stirling students and staff will also have access to all PNAS content, dating back to 1915. […]
ReadingLists for Autumn 2021
You can now create a new reading list or ‘roll over’ a previous list by clicking on the ‘Reading List’ option in your Autumn 2021 Canvas module. The reading list system allows you to add items from LibrarySearch, upload a PDF file, or download the ‘Cite it’ widget to your browser to add content from […]
New Web of Science platform launched
The new Web of Science platform has been launched and is now available to Stirling students and staff. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary service for finding details of research articles and other publication types covering: sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It tracks around 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records. The […]
Journal Citation Reports 2021 release: now includes Arts & Humanities journals
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is a very useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors and other journal metrics. This release: 70% more content – partly due to inclusion of journal titles from the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) New metric […]
Do you want to keep your reading history?
Your current Library Catalogue account holds the list of books that you have borrowed, this list is in your ‘Reading History’. Once we switch to the new LibrarySearch you won’t have access to your old Library account, so if you want to retain a copy of your Reading History: From the Library Catalogue home screen […]
Meet our new intuitive ReadingLists system.
This summer sees the introduction of a new flexible and intuitive ReadingLists system enabling teaching staff to easily prepare, manage and share module reading lists. The system is integrated with Canvas and a new Library management system to give immediate access to library resources, request material not in stock and reduce the need for emailing Word lists and the resulting bottlenecks […]
Stirling joins Taylor & Francis Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
*** UPDATE TO POST BELOW 10th June 2021 *** Upon clarification of the terms from Taylor and Francis, we have now been able to lift our restriction below that the Agreement will only cover articles that have external funding. The Agreement can now be used for any research article with a Stirling corresponding author that […]