Need help with academic referencing?

New to the university and embarking on your first assignment? Maybe you’ve been told to cite your sources for an essay and you’re wondering what this is all about. If so, we’ve got your back! There’s lots of support available. Online guides For those who prefer guidance in written format, there are several online guides. […]

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Shibboleth Upgrade – Tuesday 25th May

On Tuesday 25th May Information Services will upgrade our Shibboleth authentication system, used to provide access to a wide range of internal and external services such as Canvas, RefWorks, UniDesk, and digital library resources. The upgrade will take place during our ‘at risk’ period of 07:30 to 08:30 on this date.    No downtime is anticipated, however, it is possible that access to […]

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6 Things to do before Graduation

With Winter Graduation fast approaching we’ve written a handy IT/Library checklist to help make your transition from student to graduate an easy one. Move your data (files/photos etc.) from your University Home Folder. Look out for an email from Box inviting your to convert to a personal Box account. The limit is 10GB so you […]

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Changes to RefWorks

  Users of RefWorks may have noticed that when they exporting references from a database to their account they are offered a choice to use either “legacy RefWorks” or “new RefWorks”. University of Stirling staff and students should select the “legacy RefWorks” option, with the orange coloured logo.   The new version of RefWorks has not […]

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New semester – new library databases

Information Services is delighted to announce that we now subscribe to several new library databases and two of our existing databases have been upgraded for the new academic year. These new subscriptions bring increased amount of full text coverage for many subjects across the university.   Business Source Premier has been replaced with Business Source […]

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