Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: The development of an intervention to support midwives in addressing multiple health behaviours with pregnant women. By Julie McLellan http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31105 Educated Inside: A Scottish Approach to Prisoner Education. By […]
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New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in March and April #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during March and April. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Cinema and Cultural Memory in The Bahamas in the 1950s. By Monique Toppin http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30780 Webs of influence: Investigating the effects of the forest mycorrhizosphere on soil carbon […]
New ‘COVID-19: Resources for research’ guide
A number of organisations have created great resources for supporting research into COVID-19. We’ve added these to our new “COVID-19: Resources for research“ Libguide at: https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/covid Here’s the list so far: COVID-19 Research Database (provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO)) WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in December and January #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during December and January. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Ex-Servicemen and Crime in Interwar Scotland. By Cameron McKay http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30502 Rethinking Multicultural Education: How might shi (勢)–inflected thinking enhance practice? By Anne Lawrie http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30677 An Investigation of […]
Finding Free Articles – Open Access plugins to make it easier
A third to a half of articles have a free Open Access version, although finding them isn’t always easy – but there are now a growing number of browser extensions that can help. CORE Discovery Open Access Button Unpaywall Kopernio Google Scholar button See our handy ‘OA plugins’ guide for more details: https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/oaplugins Clare AllanSenior Research […]
STORRE Repository Now Recommends Useful Related Articles
We’ve added a new widget to our Open Access Repository STORRE that gives you recommendations for useful articles that are related to the article you’re looking at. All the recommended articles are free to read and can be accessed without a paywall. Thanks to our developer Mike White for his work on this! The recommended […]
Introducing: the British Library Shared Research Repository
The British Library is hosting a new online repository for research produced by its staff, as well as staff of its partner organisations: the British Museum, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), National Museums Scotland, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Tate. It’s particularly useful for research on Heritage, Archaeology, History and Art. It’s easy to search […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Towards a better understanding of the value of physical fitness testing within the identification and development of youth soccer players. By James Dugdale http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30250 An Ethnographic Exploration of Relationships […]
STORRE with extra Dimensions – new badges show citations impact of our research
Dimensions badges that provide an interactive visualisation of citation data for a publication have been added to STORRE. Thanks to the development work of our own Michael White, you’ll see the badges at the top of any STORRE record that has a DOI. The Dimensions badge shows the ‘Total citations’, that is, the number of […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in September #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during September. This thesis is available for reading immediately: Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Marian Omojimite http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30159 The other theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work […]