New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in November #StirNewTheses Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during November. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: The Relationship Between Maximal Strength and Performance Measures: A Correlational Study. By Scott Vallance http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28082 […]
Category: Open Access
Wellcome funder: new open access policy
The research funder Wellcome has published details of its new open access (OA) policy which will come into effect on 1 January 2020. The policy will require all research articles that arise from Wellcome funding to be made freely available at the time of publication. Embargoes will no longer be permitted. They are not changing their policy […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in September & October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during September and October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Professional doctoral students and the doctoral supervision relationship: negotiating difficulties. By Margot Kirkland http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27852 Young People, Enterprise and Social Capital. By Marion Allison http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27885 […]
Visit our new research support web pages
https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties-and-services/information-services-and-library/current-students-and-staff/researchers/ We have overhauled our research support web pages so that they are much more streamlined and user friendly. Now you should be able to find information easily about writing and research, research data and the University archives and special collections. Writing and research includes information on: search techniques; keeping up to date; research […]
Free images from Art Institute of Chicago
It’s always nice to be able to brighten up a presentation or document with a beautiful image. So it’s good to hear of another source of amazing pictures. The Art Institute of Chicago is now offering unrestricted access to thousands of images from its digital archive. The images have been made available under the Creative Commons […]
Former student’s flower art sparks thesis digitisation #ThesisThursday
#ThesisThursday has reminded me of one of my favourite older theses that has made it into our Open Access Repository, STORRE. This particular digitisation has a bit of a story behind it. In February 2018 I heard that our alumnus, Janet Watson, had been inspired to make beautiful watercolour paintings of a flower that […]
Growth of Stirling’s eTheses #ThesisThursday
Since this is Open Access Week and today is #ThesisThursday I thought I would share a recent graph that shows the growth of etheses in our repository from the very beginning. We first started accepting theses submissions to our Open Access repository, STORRE, way back in 2005! Then in 2006, we formalised our policy so […]
Plan S: Game changer for Research Funders and Open Access
On the 4th of September a radical initiative was unveiled that plans to make publicly funded research in 11 European countries, including the UK, accessible for free by 2020. The initiative is built around ‘Plan S’, which consists of one target and 10 principles (shown below). The core target is: “By 2020 scientific publications […]
Unpaywall for open research: plans for Scopus integration
Described as a “ground-breaking development” towards achieving a true open research infrastructure, Unpaywall is a database listing almost 20 million freely available scholarly articles. This free service locates open-access articles and presents paywalled papers that have been legally archived and are freely available on other websites to users who might otherwise have hit a paywalled […]
Unpaywall: find free, legal, Open Access articles
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could quickly check if there’s a free version of a paper when the library doesn’t have access? Well, now you can – using the super-smart ‘Unpaywall’ tool. Unpaywall is an extension to your web browser that finds free versions of otherwise paywalled papers from a database of about 10 […]