From Friday the 19th May, the library will move to vacation hours. This means the library will close at 8pm on Fridays. There are no other changes to our opening hours. Our vacation hours are: Day Time Monday – Thursday 8:00am – 12:00 midnight Friday 8:00am – 8:00pm Saturday and Sunday 10:00am – 8:00pm
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Urgent: Upgrade from Legacy RefWorks to the New Version
Legacy RefWorks will stop working at the end of June. If you are using Legacy RefWorks you will see an “Upgrade to the Latest RefWorks version” button and we strongly advise you upgrade soon to avoid last minute problems. Before you press the button see our guidance and important considerations prior to upgrading. If your […]

What can you do with your etextbook?
This might seem like a silly question, but your etextbook may offer more features than you were expecting. To be clear, when we talk about an etextbook, we mean an online course text supplied by either Kortext or BibliU. For more information see https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/ebooks, where you will find online tutorials for both Kortext and BibliU […]

International Newsstream – What do you think?
International Newsstream, including over 1,300 news sources from outside of the U.S. and Canada is available for a trial period until 3rd June 2023. It includes titles such as The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times of India. We are interested to know what you […]

Changes to staff mobile phone contracts on the Vodaphone network – Find out what to do before you travel.
Due to significant changes to roaming charges post Brexit, we are disabling current Vodaphone International travel add-ons (Data and Calls) for all University of Stirling mobile sim cards. On the 1st of May these sim cards will disable and then reset. This will prevent the University receiving unexpectedly high bills for your phone use abroad. We […]

Legacy RefWorks Retires Soon – Upgrade to New Version
Currently there are two versions of RefWorks. The older version (now referred to as legacy RefWorks) will be retired in June. We ask you to upgrade to the new version as soon as possible. If your RefWorks login takes you to https://refworks.proquest.com/ you are already using the latest version of RefWorks and no further action […]

Dissertation Support
Information Services offers support to students at every stage of your dissertation. In this blog post we highlight the support and resources available to you. Finding Resources Struggling to find articles and books on your dissertation topic? Our Librarians are here to help you find resources for your dissertation research. See our Dissertation Support section in LibGuides. […]

Academic Development Events – March 2023
See the range of Academic Development events taking place in March. See more details and register via the Academic Development Events (sharepoint.com) page:

Lexis+ UK Training Session 8th March 2pm
Join the Lexis trainer for an introduction to the new Lexis+ UK search interface and learn more about using this important legal information database. Whether you have never used Lexis before or are familiar with the older version, you will find the session invaluable for your research and studies. No need to sign up, just […]

The Library’s Document Delivery Service – easy, convenient and free!
If you’re writing a dissertation, you’ll probably need to search beyond Stirling University Library for some research material. Did you know that the Library’s Document Delivery Service can give you access to books, articles, theses and conference proceedings? You can request things we don’t have and we’ll try to get copies for you. Articles will […]