The University of Stirling holds membership to BioMed Central. This membership covers the costs of publishing within BioMed Central’s 214 Open Access journals for our researchers. You can view the University of Stirling’s membership page for details on submitting a paper and for a list of articles published in BioMed Central by our researchers in […]
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Disruption to IS services Thursday 24 March: Industrial action
UCU has informed us that its members intend to participate in a one day strike on Thursday 24 March.  Information Services will do its best to minimise the impact this industrial action will have on those who use our services but inevitably there will be some disruption for which we apologise in advance.  […]
Nineteenth Century Pamphlet Collection – now available from JSTOR
A new resource for anyone studying or researching nineteenth century British history – the Nineteenth Century Pamphlet Collection is now available from the A-Z list of online resources.  This collection provides access to digitised versions of a range of nineteenth century British pamphlets held in seven UK research libraries. The collection includes:  Bristol Selected […]
RefWorks webinars in April
RefWorks have announced their schedule of webinars, live online training sessions, for April. You can register and join the live webinar or watch a recording of the session. Â Remember to visit our online training pages for RefWorks help, videos and other information. Â Here are the details and dates of the webinars as circulated […]
British Science & Engineering Week: 11th – 20th March 2011
Celebrate National Science and Engineering Week! Take a new look at the great science resources we have for your research.  The British Science Association web pages list events throughout the country for National Science and Engineering Week; there are different projects, festivals and online experiments.    We are always striving to offer you the best resources we […]
Calling all researchers!
Growing Knowledge, a British Library exhibition, has a great collection of inspiring and informing podcasts. Also, recordings from Digital Researcher 2011 a British Library and Vitae event are now available.   Both Growing Knowledge and Digital Researcher 2011 discuss the evolution of research in light of technological advances and innovation. They discuss and examine the ways […]
Talk on Archbishop Robert Leighton
Dr Alastair Mann, History and Politics, will give a talk on Archbishop Robert Leighton on Monday 14th March at 7.30pm in the Victoria Hall, Dunblane.  2011 is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Robert Leighton. Thanks to a special arrangement, the University is fortunate to have access to the books and manuscripts of […]
network problems this morning
This is an update on the network issues which affected all campuses this morning. There was an issue with the configuration of some of our network equipment this morning which caused widescale problems in logging onto the network and accessing key services.  The initial issue has been resolved but there is still work to […]
IEEE XLORE trial
We now have a trial to IEEE Xplore (until end of March 2011). Â * Full-text access to more than 2.8 million articles in electrical engineering, computer science, electronics and related disciplines * Peer-reviewed articles from the top-cited journals in the field * Cutting-edge conference papers * All IEEE published and approved standards * Complete […]
Author Andrew Greig to give talk: read his work
“I write to feel more truly alive, and hope that my readers might feel themselves the same” Â On Wednesday 16th March acclaimed writer Andrew Greig will visit the University of Stirling to talk about his work and what inspires it. Â Stirling University Library has a number of Andrew Greig’s works so you can […]