We now have access to two new full text resources: American Periodicals This is a digitised archive of selected American magazines and periodicals from 1740-1900. It includes titles such as Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine; literary serializations in National Era; and Scribner’s and Lippincott’s. It is likely to be of interest for history, English, publishing […]
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Law Ebooks on trial until end December
Access a wide range of legal texts from Hart Publishing until the end of the year. Click any of the links below to browse the ebooks or search for them in the Library catalogue. Contact library@stir.ac.uk if you would like to give feedback about these books. Category Hart Publishing 2015 Hart Publishing 2014 Comparative Law, Legal […]
The Jacobites and their Legacy
The latest exhibition in the Library commemorates the 300th anniversary of the 1715 Jacobite Rising. The display includes books, manuscripts, artwork and artefacts from the University Library’s collections, as well as some books and broadsides from partner institutions – the Library of Innerpeffray (http://www.innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/) and the Leighton Library in Dunblane (http://www.spanglefish.com/leightonlibrary/). You can see the […]
British Newspapers Part 3, 1780-1950
We have extended our collection of online historical newspapers. The third collection of Gale Cengage Learning’s British Newspapers covers 1780 – 1950 and includes many local newspapers, including the Stirling Observer (1839-1867). You can access this new resource from the A-Z list of Online Resources. British Newspapers Part 3 can be searched together with […]
Copyright the card game
An interesting approach to teaching the basics of copyright! You can download the game from the JORUM site http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/19369 Valerie Wells, Senior Subject Librarian.
SAGE Research Methods Datasets
We have trial access to the SAGE Research Methods Datasets till the end of April. You can access the datasets from http://srmo.sagepub.com/datasets There are 46 datasets which can be downloaded and used in teaching. Valerie Wells, Senior Subject Librarian.
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Information Services runs an annual Satisfaction Survey to find out what our staff and students think of our services. We take the results very seriously and aim to make improvements to services based on your feedback Enter the survey by finding the email sent to you from the Information Centre with the subject line ‘Information […]
SAGE Research Methods
We now have access to the SAGE Research methods collection. This includes 700+ ebooks published by SAGE covering research methodology. You can access the resource directly here http://srmo.sagepub.com.ezproxy.stir.ac.uk/ You can browse the entire collection and search across the collection which includes articles, book chapters and videos. In addition, all of the individual titles have […]
Emerald – Disruption to Service Monday 2nd March
Due to maintenance work at Emerald there may be disruption today when using some Emerald journal database services including: Search, Alerts, MyAccount and Registration
Research bites for Spring 2015
The IS subject librarians are again providing their successful lunchtime briefing sessions for researchers– please see below for details, and booking links. A course descriptor is given on the sign up sheet. All sessions are on a Wednesday, except for ‘Guide to getting published’ (April 13th) which is a Monday. All the sessions are at […]