As part of the planned upgrade to the Library Catalogue a period of downtime is required on 8th and 9th August. The following services will be unavailable from 3:30 pm on Monday 8th August until midday on Tuesday 9th August: Library catalogue Self issue and self return facilities Online book renewals via ‘My Library Record’ Article […]
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CLA Licence enhancement
The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) licence has been revised, it is now possible to copy 10% rather than 5% of a book. This means we can make digital copies of up to 10% of a book and make that available to students via Succeed. Contact your Subject Librarian for further information. […]
Library A-Z list of online resources and research guides maintenance 18th – 19th July
Due to essential maintenance and upgrading of the system, access to the library’s A-Z list of online resources and subject research guides may be disrupted from noon on Monday 18th July. We anticipate that the disruption will be over before midday on Tuesday 19th July. If you wish to use the library’s databases during this time and […]
EndNote – Coming Soon
Following extensive feedback from the research community on referencing software we are pleased to announce that EndNote will be available on campus later this month. A trainer from EndNote will provide a series of workshops for beginner and experienced users on 3rd August. This will be followed by a series of short introductory workshops for […]
HeinOnline – International Legal Material on Trial until 20th June
International legal material is available in HeinOnline for a trial period to 20th June. To try out HeinOnline International login to Portal and access HeinOnline as usual from the Law Subject Guide or A-Z Online Resources. All the additional content on trial is highlighted. Let us know what you think of the international content at […]
Emerald – Disruption to Service Tuesday 7th June
The Emerald journals database is undergoing maintenance on Tuesday 7th June. Searching and other functionality may be disrupted. Normal service should resume on Wednesday 8th.
UN iLibrary Available Until 30th June
Try out the new UN iLibrary of documents from the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programmes and let the Library know how useful you think it is. Content is covered from a broad range of subject areas including economic and social development, international trade and finance, environment and climate change, migration, democracy and governance, human […]
Edinburgh University Law Library – Restrictions Until 19th May
Due to reduced study space, access to Edinburgh University Law & Europa Library is limited mainly to Edinburgh University students until 19th May. Further details are available at the Law Library opening hours web page. If you think you are eligible for access during this period it advisable to contact the Law Library in advance to check.
Export to RefWorks Problem
The export to RefWorks function currently is experiencing difficulties and in many instances fails. There is a higher chance of success if you login to RefWorks before exporting references from a database e.g. from Stirgate, but this does not always work. This problem is affecting all UK universities and RefWorks are working on a fix.
Stirling’s Top Ten most shared articles of 2015
You may have noticed that as part of our New Technologies project we will soon be launching Altmetric for Institutions for Stirling. Altmetric for Institutions is a service that helps you monitor and report on the social media attention research papers are receiving. In preparation for the launch we have sent to Altmetric […]