<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3080" title="Refwork logo" src="https://isnews.stir.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/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 […]
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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. […]
Go live date for new student email system set
Further to our previous posting about the new student email system, Outlook Web App (part of Microsoft’s cloud based Office365 offering), we are pleased to confirm that the new system will go live during the winter vacation on 30 January 2013. We now have a pilot group of c60 students live on the system […]
Have eduroam will travel
Stirling University offers the eduroam service to its staff and students to allow you to access the Internet on your own devices (laptops, ipads, phones etc) at other participating UK and worldwide institutions. See the eduroam list of participating institutions for more info on where you can eduroam: http://www.eduroam.org/index.php?p=where The Information Centre at Stirling Campus […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Monday 26th November 2012
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Monday 26th November at 11.00, Cottrell 2A13, Stirling Campus. Please note the change of time for this meeting to 11.00. All are welcome. Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Professor David […]