On Wednesday 20th August Information Services staff will be upgrading the DSpace software that underpins the University’s Institutional Repository, STORRE (http://storre.stir.ac.uk/) from DSpace v1.6 to DSpace v4.1. This is a major upgrade and, due to the amount of local customisations to the Open Source DSpace software that we have carried out at Stirling, it can’t […]
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Stirling research theses added to STORRE in July
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of July. The theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work for publication: Death and Dying in Human and Companion Canine Relations by Maria Desougi. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20552 Enviromental factors […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in June
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of June. A couple of these are publicly available now: Film Hierophany: Analysing the Sacred in Avant-garde Films from the 1920s to 1950s. By Lalipa Nilubol. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20431 Participation and Agency: the experiences of young people in a […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in May
We had an incredible bumper crop of theses being added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of May. Congratulations to all those who have successfully completed their doctorates! A critical study of international higher education development: capital, capability, and a dialogical proposal for academic freedom as a responsibility. By […]
Growth of STORRE boosted by University’s RMS
STORRE, the University’s Open Access repository for our research publications, has been growing steadily over the last few years. But a recent graph produced by OpenDOAR (a directory of academic open access repositories) has provided a wonderful visual display of how the launch of the University’s Research Management System (RMS) in 2012 has given a […]
Top Downloads of Stirling Theses in 2013
Theses from the University of Stirling are included in the British Library’s EThOS Service – a service that allows anyone from around the world to request an electronic copy of the full-text of a UK thesis. Since 2007, Stirling’s theses have been made available in STORRE, our institutional Open Access research repository, and these […]
Presentation from EThOS webinar now available
In December the British Library held a webinar on how their EThoS PhD theses service could be useful for your research. The webinar was aimed at researchers, students, librarians and anyone who is interested in finding and using PhD theses. The presentation from the webinar is now available and EThOS will be updating their […]
STORRE reaches 1,000!
The STORRE Managers have great pleasure announcing that on Friday 15th May 2009 the 1,000th item was committed to STORRE: Stirling Online Research Repository (http://storre.stir.ac.uk). Â Â The 1,000th item to make it into the repository was: Â Title: Â Â Research Frontiers in Wholesale Distribution (Editorial) Authors: Â Quinn, Jim; Sparks, Leigh ID: Â Â http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1187 Â Â So […]
Stirling’s Super STORRE goes Global
On 9th April the University announced that it had become the first academic institution in the UK to oblige staff to make all their published research available online. This press release on the Portal has further details.  Professor Ian Simpson, our Deputy Principal (Research and Knowledge Transfer), was quoted:  “We believe that the […]