Research Bites is a summer programme of lunchtime briefings for researchers. The next session is on Keeping up to date on Wednesday, 3rd July at 12.30pm in the Library Seminar Room. Come along to find out about the tools you can use to keep up to date with news and publications in your subject […]
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2012 Journal Citation Reports now available
Journal Citation Reports are an immensely useful tool and can help you: – identify journals with the greatest total cites and the highest impact in your field – find the most appropriate and influential journals in which to publish Each edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is published annually following the year of coverage […]
Research Bites: Collaboration and Networking, 26th June, 12.30pm
Research Bites is a new summer programme of lunchtime briefings for researchers. The third session is on Collaboration and Networking on Wednesday, 26th June at 12.30pm in the Library Seminar Room. Come along to find out about some of the range of tools available to you to help you with collaboration in your research area: Blackboard Collaborate (a […]
Research Bites: Write N Cite 4.0, 19th June, 12.30pm
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3080" title="Refwork logo" src="https://isnews.stir.ac.uk/files/2013/06/Refworksimage51.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="37" style="float:right" Research Bites is a new summer programme of lunchtime briefings for researchers. The second session is on Write N Cite 4.0 on Wednesday 19th June at 12.30pm in the Library Seminar Room. Come along to find out how Write N Cite 4.0 might […]
Advice on Using Dropbox
Lots of people now use DropBox. Mark Toole, Director of Information Services has written some advice about Dropbox , including when it is not safe to do so and some tips for when you do use Dropbox.
Conference: Open Access Monographs in Humanities and Social Science, 1 & 2 July 2013, British Library, London
https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/JISC-Collections-events/oabooksconf/ This international conference is the first to focus specifically on the monograph and tackle the issues around open access. Day one will provide an overview on open access in relation to monographs looking at key issues of business models, maintaining quality, the future of peer-review, creative commons licensing and international policy development. Key […]
OA policy for Wellcome extends to books and monographs
The Wellcome Trust extends open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2013/WTP052746.htm “The extended policy will become effective for holders of grants awarded after 1 October 2013, and for existing grantholders from October 2014. The new policy does not apply to textbooks, ‘trade’ books, general reference works or works of fiction, […]
The portal and module registration
This week, some students will have had difficulty in connecting to the Portal between 09:00 and 09:35 on the morning of Wednesday 1st May when module registration for the autumn semester opened. When module registration first goes live, there is an enormous peak in the number of people trying to connect so the connection […]
Library silent zone extended for exams / extra study space
In response to a significant number of complaints about noise from students studying in the Stirling Campus Library in the build up to the exam period, we are going to trial extending the Silent Zone on Level 4 to include Level 3 also. The dates covered will be from April 22nd until May 31st . We hope […]
Beware anyone phoning to ask for your network username/password
In the past* we have alerted staff and students to the dangers of giving out your network username and password BY EMAIL to anyone claiming to be from IS/IT at the university. Now it seems that the scammers are starting to phone members of staff to try and fool people into disclosing their network credentials. […]