As announced earlier this week, DataSTORRE has been launched. DataSTORRE is an online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. The first researcher at Stirling to deposit data is Peter Matthews, a lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. His deposit is a video of a poetry reading at Wester […]
New Outlook feature – online archives
As part of the New technologies Project, Information Services is introducing an online archive service for email which will provide up to 100GB of archive storage for each member of staff. This enhancement will provide an improved service for archiving your Outlook content, and deliver the ability to access your archived information from any location […]
DataSTORRE has arrived!
DataSTORRE is an online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. University of Stirling researchers who have produced research data associated with an existing or forthcoming publication, or which has potential use for other researchers, are invited to upload their dataset for sharing and safekeeping. A persistent identifier and […]
Office 365 services now restored
Further to our earlier blog posting, Office 365 services have now been restored. Information Services.
Office 365 Service Loss
Microsoft are advising customers in West and North Europe of an interruption to their online services (Office 365) caused by a failure of the login service (for up to date status of the fault see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/status/). The problem, which started at 0900 today, will affect the ability of students to log in to […]
European data sources – two resources to explore
Looking for data about the EU or a European country? The newly launched European Data Portal may have just what you need. This vast portal from the European Commission searches over 240,000 datasets of public sector information and open (government) data from 28 European countries. Categories of data include agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food; education, […]
New resources: American Periodicals and Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
We now have access to two new full text resources: American Periodicals This is a digitised archive of selected American magazines and periodicals from 1740-1900. It includes titles such as Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine; literary serializations in National Era; and Scribner’s and Lippincott’s. It is likely to be of interest for history, English, publishing […]
New in Web of Science: Usage Counts and Emerging Sources Citation Index
There have been a couple of recent updates in Web of Science that are worth knowing about. 1. New Usage Counts option in the Web of Science Platform The Web of Science – All Databases Platform has a new Usage Counts measure; this gives an indication of interest in each article. […]
New public Wi-Fi service for Stirling Campus visitors
Information Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new, free Wi-Fi service for visitors to the campus as part of the New Technologies Project. From Wednesday 25th November the service will be available to any visitors you receive on campus, who are not affiliated with an academic institution with access to eduroam. […]
Library exam setup including 24/7 opening
The Stirling Campus Library will be open 24/7 from Monday 7th December until Thursday 17th December to allow for exam study. Several other exam arrangements will be in place from Monday 23rd November to encourage a study environment in the Library: level 3 will become a silent study zone the Enterprise Zone rooms […]