You can now use Scopus to find articles and other sources for your research and coursework. Scopus is described as “the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources” (http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/). Scopus can search across or within 4 main subject areas: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities. Access Scopus from […]
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Try it before it goes! BioOne Trial Ends 18th Nov
Studying or researching Science? Let us know what you think of BioOne. You can access BioOne via the Portal‘s A-Z list of online resources. Here is more information from the providers: For more details and to give us feedback, please contact Lisa Haddow or Elizabeth Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews Subject Librarian
Open Access Week 24-30th Oct 2011
To celebrate Open Access week, read inspirational stories collated by Knowledge Exchange to celebrate the power and influence of Open Access publishing. The Knowledge Exchange expresses the vision: ‘To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.’ For more information, see the Knowledge Exchange webpages. What the Knowledge Exchange say […]
ESRC Festival of Social Science
To mark the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Festival of Social Science (29th October to 5th November 2011) we will be highlighting some of the Library’s social science resources on our Twitter account. More information about the Festival is available here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/  Various events are planned for the festival, which aims to demonstrate how social […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Friday 2 December 2011
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 2 December 2011 at 1.00pm, room still to be confirmed, Stirling Campus. All are welcome. IT and Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Please send any items for the agenda to IS […]
ACM Digital Library Online Training
Online training for Computing Science students! The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library are holding an online training event. Â The session will run from from 11:00am (EDT) until 12:00pm (EDT) on October 20th 2011. It is designed as an introductory session for the Author, Institutional, & Publication Profile Pages. Â To join the […]
STORRE closed for deposit: 24th-26th Oct
STORRE will be closed for deposit between Monday 24th October and Wednesday 26th October whilst work is undertaken to bring it in to line with the new University structure. STORRE will, however, remain open for browsing and searching during this period. If you have an item that you must submit to STORRE whilst this […]
Proquest databases down for maintenance, Sun 23 October
Proquest, the supplier of many of our online databases will be performing maintenance on Sun 23 October from 3am til 3pm.  This will mean that many of our online databases may not be available including:  • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) • ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts • Biological Sciences […]
MathSciNet online tutorials now available
MathSciNet is a database of journal articles in mathematics; it is the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.  You can access MathSciNet from the A-z list of online resources from the Portal.  The online tutorials, available here: http://www.mathscinet.info/index.html can help you use the database to find articles by author, publication or […]
Succeed Downtime 10.00am Saturday 8th October
As a result of the work we have been doing with Blackboard (the company that produces the underlying software) to fix the performance issues with Succeed we have been issued with two patches for the system. These are simple and quick to install but require that the system is stopped to do so. The […]