As always IS staff were heavily involved in making Freshers Week a fun and informative start to semester for our students. We contributed to several events / services to help welcome our new students onto campus. Here are a few of the ways we were out and about: Welcome Desk in the Lochside MarqueeThis year […]
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Westlaw UK Fixed
Technical issues preventing access to Westlaw UK have been resolved and the service restored. If you are asked to Sign-in, please scroll down to the option ‘Access through academic institution’ and select University of Stirling.
Westlaw Technical Issues
Westlaw UK is currently experiencing technical issues with access to content on the website. This is being worked on as a matter of urgency and Westlaw expect services to be resumed within the day (Friday 13th Sept)
Temporary withdrawal of VPN service
Information Services have been made aware of an industry wide security vulnerability with the VPN service, which enables you to connect to university IT resources from off campus. As a consequence, we are temporarily withdrawing the VPN service while the issue is addressed by vendors. We expect the VPN to be restored early next week […]
Scotsman Historical Archive
The Library recently acquired a digital archive of The Scotsman newspaper, covering the first issue in 1817 up to 1950. The Scotsman 1817-1950 adds to our growing collection of historical digitised newspapers. As well as The Scotsman, you can also search The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, and many regional newspapers. Historians should […]
Goodbye COPAC, Hello Library Hub Discover
On 31st July Library Hub Discover was launched by JISC. This service replaces both COPAC and SUNCAT. It includes the catalogues of 117 university and research libraries in the UK and Ireland and there are plans to add more in the future (including Stirling University’s catalogue – coming soon!). The new service offers much of […]
Want to be a Wi-Fi wizard?
We are seeking to recruit student staff (Wi-Fi Wizards) to assist with setting up staff and students on the University Wi-Fi service – eduroam. We need approximately 5 new wizards to join our existing team. The job involves: Being part of a student wizard team providing support to students and staff in getting their devices […]
Withdrawal of local admin account functionality
As part of our Cyber Essentials accreditation for managed staff desktops, we have recently withdrawn the local admin account functionality from Run Advertised Programs on staff PCs. While the local admin account withdrawal happened more suddenly than we had anticipated, we were planning to remove it from RAP this summer anyway. This is in line […]
Research Drive
So you’ve just been told that you have to move your research data from Box to Research Drive – but what is it? The University provides safe and secure storage for researchers where you can keep all your data relating to your current research. We call this your Research Drive or X: drive. The research […]
Password rules are changing
As part of our ongoing commitment to achieving Cyber Essentials Accreditation, we are strengthening our university network password rules. Our current security settings require a minimum of six characters and staff/PGRs must change their password once a year. It is not possible to use your previous two passwords when changing. In future, your password is going […]