Altmetric is a free tool that tracks social media attention to research papers and is recognisable because of its use of a colourful donut: Altmetric scores for individual articles have been available in STORRE since November 2014. The University now subscribes to Altmetric for Institutions: this is a service that provides an aggregated […]
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Stirling’s Top Ten most shared articles of 2015
You may have noticed that as part of our New Technologies project we will soon be launching Altmetric for Institutions for Stirling. Altmetric for Institutions is a service that helps you monitor and report on the social media attention research papers are receiving. In preparation for the launch we have sent to Altmetric […]
STORRE Downloads: the year’s top 10
It’s getting to that time of year for looking back and reviewing how we’ve done. I’ve been looking at STORRE full-text file downloads since this time last year. Data from the IRUS-UK statistics portal that we joined during 2014 There’s obviously a seasonal pattern that follows the academic year. But it’s interesting to see that […]
Research data@Stirling
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, […]