In this teaching bites session we’ll help you to comply with UK copyright while providing your students with the material they need. We will let you know what the library can do to help and report some good news in the amended copyright regulations due in June this year. Date & time: Wednesday 21st […]
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Iain Banks exhibition – Parallel worlds
The University of Stirling is delighted to announce a new exhibition presenting a selection of foreign editions of Iain Banks’ novels from his personal collection. Iain Banks graduated from the University of Stirling in 1975 with a degree in English and Philosophy, and was later awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University in […]
OSCOLA for Law Students 19/3/14
As requested by a number of law students, a workshop on using the OSCOLA referencing style has been arranged. No booking required. Date:Wednesday 19/3/14, Time: 1400-1530, Location: Library Training Room 1, Level 4
Top Downloads of Stirling Theses in 2013
Theses from the University of Stirling are included in the British Library’s EThOS Service – a service that allows anyone from around the world to request an electronic copy of the full-text of a UK thesis. Since 2007, Stirling’s theses have been made available in STORRE, our institutional Open Access research repository, and these […]
New Scopus Release
The Scopus library database was updated on the 1st of February. This release focused on a redesign of the user interface and an update to the help functionality. Scopus have summarised the changes as: 1. Improved readability of Scopus’ most-used pages with an emphasis on the most-used features. The redesign aims to make the […]
Change of date to Turnitin maintenance period
The Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, January 4th, 2014. This replaces the previously announced maintenance on December 21st. An announcement will appear for users within Turnitin in advance of when the system will be unavailable for this scheduled maintenance. Simon Booth Succeed Adminstrator
Holiday access to resources – study space, PCs, direct links to services
The Library and Information Services are closed from 2pm on Tuesday 24th December until 9am Monday 6th January. However the Study Zone next to the Stirling Library will be open throughout the holidays 24/7. It provides study space and PC and printer access. As our email accounts will only be monitored sporadically over […]
Holiday opening/closing times for the Libraries and Study Zone
Stirling Campus Main Library Monday 16 Dec – Monday 23rd December: open vacation hours. Mon-Thurs: 08:00-20:00, Fri 08:00-17:00, Weekends 10:00-17:00 Tuesday 24th Dec: open 08:00-14:00 Tuesday 25th Dec-Sun 5th January – CLOSED From Monday 6th January – open on vacation hours Full listing at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/student/library/about/hours/ Stirling Campus Study Zone The Study Zone next […]
Feedback wanted for Data Citation Principles
People have been working on data citation issues for a long time. Different groups and different communities have come up with different guidelines and recommendations on how data should be cited. The different approaches generally agree in principle, but there are some distinct differences. At the first Plenary of RDA people from many organizations came to […]
Want to know how social media can help your studies and boost your employability?
A new student guide to social media (Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Slideshare etc) has been developed by the Libraries at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and York. The guide describes how different social media applications can be used for academic work, and the dos and don’ts to consider when using these platforms. You can either pick […]