Information Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new interface for our databases for education: the British Education Index (BEI), the Australian Education Index (AEI) and ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre). These databases are available from the A-Z List of Online Resources.   The new interface offers direct exporting to RefWorks, quick limits […]
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Maintenance affecting web services
Systems and Network Services will be performing some essential hardware maintenance on Saturday 27th August 2011 which will cause disruption to the following web services from 9.00am: <ul All University Divisional web sites Stirling Online Research Repository (STORRE) (old) WebCT The University Core web site (www.stir.ac.uk), the Portal, and the new Succeed service […]
Teachers’ Collection temporarily unavailable
Due to a leak in the Stirling campus Library the Teachers’ Collection is temporarily unavailable. Please ask at the Information Centre if you require access to this collection. We will post an update when we have more information.
Succeed Launched
Today Succeed is launched. Succeed is the upgrade for WebCT. Formally the launch means that a link has been added to the Portal and this route therefore is the recommended route to Succeed. Watch out for further information about how Succeed can help keep you up-to-date with your modules via the notifications feature. […]
Library catalogue downtime Wed 13 July
The library catalogue will be unavailable on Wednesday 13 July from 08.30 due to essential maintenance work. It is hoped to have access restored on Wednesday but the system will continue to be at risk during Thursday 14 July. It will still be possible to borrow from the campus libraries although self issue and […]
Library catalogue downtime postponed
This message applies to Stirling and Highland campuses The advertised downtime for essential maintenance of the Library catalogue this week (Wednesday 15th and possibly going into Thursday 16th) has been postponed to July. We will provide advance notice of the new dates as soon as they are known. Information Services The […]
Using video and images to support teaching
If you are interested in using moving images, sound clips or pictures to support your teaching, library staff have created a list of quality assured, copyright cleared resources. The list includes film and TV clips, multimedia resources from museums, archival music and sound recordings and much more. See http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/resource-db/subj-list.php?subject=58
Library catalogue downtime Wed 15th June
This message applies to staff and students on all campuses. The Library catalogue will be unavailable during Wed 15th June for essential maintenance. It is hoped to have access restored during Thursday 16th June but it is possible that the catalogue will remain down for some time during that day also. At Stirling campus […]
Protecting and using intellectual assets
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has just released a new guide for universities on managing intellectual assets. The new guide provides advice and information for universities to help them understand how they can best use their institution’s intellectual property. This can be an invention, a trade mark, an original design or the application of a […]
New additions to StirGate – arXiv and OAIster
Two new resources, arXiv and OAIster, have recently been added to StirGate. arXiv contains links to the full text of over 600,000 preprints of scientific papers covering disciplines including mathematics, computing science, quantitative biology and statistics. OAIster is a specialist search engine which searches freely available digital resources of interest to the academic community. OAISter includes more […]