**UPDATE – To address the problem below, the library catalogue will be unavailable for a short period this afternoon (Fri 25th) from 4:30pm. The ejournal records will then hopefully be reloaded over the weekend.** The Library Catalogue currently has some problems around the coverage and catalogue of our electronic journal records. Each month the […]
New 2013 Journal Metrics from Scopus announced
Elsevier have announced the release of the 2013 Journal Metrics based on Scopus data. The metrics provide methods for assessing the citation impact a journal makes and are all available for free download at http://www.journalmetrics.com. The impact metrics are based on methodologies developed by external bibliometricians and use Scopus as the data source. […]
Emerald Website Maintenance – 25th July for 4 Weeks
You will be unable to edit your Emerald profile, settings and preferences for a period of 4 weeks. Searching and retrieving journal articles from Emerald should be unaffected. See http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/management if you would like more information about using Emerald journals at the University of Stirling or contact library@stir.ac.uk.
Wireless Project reaches Library – Week beginning 21st July 2014
**Work is now complete in the Library building and the normal wifi service is still in service until the launch of the new access mechanism which will replace CampusNet** Work to install the new WiFi network reaches the Stirling campus library this week and engineers will be working across all floors of the library during […]
The Zombie thesis: walks and talks but isn’t really alive
One of my favourite blogs, The Thesis Whisperer*, has just posted a great article about the problems of what they term a “Zombie Thesis”: a thesis that although it has all the parts, such as title pages, chapters, graphs and charts, somehow isn’t quite hanging together well enough to make it a good and interesting […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in June
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of June. A couple of these are publicly available now: Film Hierophany: Analysing the Sacred in Avant-garde Films from the 1920s to 1950s. By Lalipa Nilubol. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20431 Participation and Agency: the experiences of young people in a […]
Road closure Monday 7th of July 2014
You may be aware of a variety of works being carried out around campus as part of the Wireless Network Enhancement Project. On Monday 7th July the East Access Road will be closed, for up to 2 days, adjacent to Logie Lecture Theatre and the Stirling Management Centre for the construction of a cable duct […]
New resources added to A-Z list: Times Literary Supplement Archive and The Sunday Times Archive
Two new electronic resources have been added to the A-Z list: Times Literary Supplement Digital Archive and The Sunday Times Archive. These resources will be useful for anyone researching, teaching or studying either English Literature, History or Journalism. The Times Literary Supplement Digital Archive provides access to the full text of the TLS from […]
Three new health resources added to A-Z list: OVID Medline, the Joanna Briggs Institute and OVID Nursing
Great news for anyone researching, teaching or studying health. The Library now provides access to three new resources: OVID Medline, the Joanna Briggs Institute and OVID Nursing. OVID Medline is a large index to medical, nursing, biological and allied health literature. References are included from over 5000 journals and it is updated weekly. It […]
Research Postgraduate Students – download Microsoft Office for FREE!
Research Post Graduate students are now covered by the university’s subscription to the Microsoft Student Advantage deal. This entitles Research Postgraduate students to a FREE download of Office365 Pro Plus on your own equipment for the duration of your study. The software requires regular authentication so will stop working when your network account is […]