From banking to shopping, and streaming to social media, people are spending more time than ever online. This means more opportunities for hackers to carry out cyber attacks. They often do this by targeting people and businesses using: email and website scams malware – software that can damage your device or let a hacker in […]
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Introducing Norman! 24/7 Library and IT Support
We are really happy to announce that from December 1st we are entering into a partnership with Norman Managed Services. With this partnership we will be able to offer Library and IT enquiries 24/7 via LiveChat and email. Norman supports more than 1 million service users globally, for over 45 higher education and commercial partners. […]
Library Festive opening hours
With the 2021/22 academic year well underway, and the festive break just around the corner, here are our opening hours. There will still be access to study spaces during times when the library is closed in the Study Zone, Atrium, and the new Campus Central. You will be able to access Lab computers and printers […]
Safely saving your academic work
Whether you are working on an assignment or on your dissertation or any documents from Office365. We recommend saving all of your work in OneDrive. This is especially important as we are getting into the period of the year when many students are writing dissertations. Access OneDrive from all of your devices “Anywhere access” – […]
Additional study spaces
The University has made available additional spaces for students to participate in online lessons. The following rooms are now available (up to and including Friday 10 December), for you to book a seat: Labs with PCs: Cottrell, 2B41: 6 PCs Cottrell, 2B43: 8 PCs (not on Thursdays) Pathfoot, Study Centre 1: 12 PCs Rooms without PCs (for use with personal […]
Phishing emails
Information Services has been alerted to an increase in phishing emails targeting colleges and universities across Scotland. These emails contain links to a website asking you to enter your University email address and password with an intent to steal your information. These phishing emails are often crafted using fraudulent information related to Covid-19 prevention measures […]
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 […]
Off-Campus SMTP mail service ends.
As part of our on-going programme of security enhancements, we have already made some changes to the way that email is accessed. Earlier in the year we began by blocking basic authentication. This meant that users were no longer able to access their University email via mail clients/applications that rely on basic authentication (i.e. clear-text username and password) over legacy (old) protocols such as […]
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 […]
Library opening arrangements, Summer 2021
From next Friday 28 May 2021, the library opening hours will be changing slightly. We will move to our summer hours. There is only one change, the library will close at 5pm on Friday’s. Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm Friday 8 am – 5 pm Saturday – Sunday 10 am – 5 […]