The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) has recently produced updated Community Health and Wellbeing profiles for Scotland. These reports provide up to date information about health and social inequalities for individual communities throughout the country. The reports cover 61 indicators of health, e.g. smoking rates, number of patients with heart disease, and provide comparative data […]
Journal Citation Reports – 2007 data now available
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) provide a systematic and objective means of determining the relative importance of science and social sciences journals within their subject categories. Particularly useful, JCR tells you which journals have the highest impact and have been cited the most.  Each edition of JCR is published annually following the year of coverage […]
New SPAM rules to go live on staff email
Auto deletion of high-scoring SPAM will start on 20th June  You may recall that, on 7th April 2008, Information Services announced a pilot to test the viability of automatically deleting incoming email messages which had a high probability of being spam (see our SPAM pilot web page for details).  Users were invited to send […]
Stirling’s Super STORRE goes Global
On 9th April the University announced that it had become the first academic institution in the UK to oblige staff to make all their published research available online. This press release on the Portal has further details.  Professor Ian Simpson, our Deputy Principal (Research and Knowledge Transfer), was quoted:  “We believe that the […]
So long Athens, hello Shibboleth and EZProxy!
From 31st July 2008 JISC will cease funding for the Athens Access Management System currently used to provide authenticated access to many of the Library’s web based subscription resources such as online journals, abstract databases, and e-books.  To replace Athens , Information Services are implementing two new Access Management systems: Shibboleth and EZProxy. Both […]
Spotlight on Barbour Index
On first glance the A-Z online resource the Barbour Index would appear to deal only in matters relating to construction. However this is not the case with the system providing a wide range of health, safety and environmental information. Want to find out more about: the latest in health and safety, play areas for children, […]
Improved resource for finding images for use in your teaching, learning and research
VADS – the Visual Arts Data Service – has recently been relaunched. It provides access to over 100,000 images which are copyright cleared and free for use in higher and further education in the UK. The collections are diverse and include images of African and Asian art, posters from war-time Britain and public monuments and […]
Stirling Campus Library Vacation Opening Hours and Loan periods
For the last week of semester and vacation opening hours please see the Opening Hours page. Long Loans – Items issued from Friday 9 May 2008 are due for return by Friday 19 September 2008. POP Loans – Remain weekly loans. RBR books and photocopies - Will change to weekly loans from Friday 30 May 2008. Short Loans […]
BIOSIS Previews now extended – searching from 1926 onwards now available
As part of the Library’s Strategic Development Fund we have purchased backfiles to the BIOSIS Previews database, which will allow you to search right back to 1926 online rather than using the paper copy. BIOSIS Previews is an index for finding journal articles, and other types of publications; it is the most comprehensive source for […]
Changes to staff email relating to SPAM
Information Services seeks your feedback during a pilot of a system that will reduce the amount of effort you have to put into managing SPAM in your email. We especially want your input if you are one of the people who is concerned that important messages may be lost because they are incorrectly tagged as […]