We’re delighted to have been invited by SHARE to add DataSTORRE to their list of metadata providers. DataSTORRE is our online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. SHARE is a collaboration between the North American Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Open Science to map […]
Let’s get digital – We would like you to tell us your digital study needs
*Survey available to Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate students.* The Digital Student Experience Tracker is a new national survey to find out how you use digital technologies and how this affects your university experience overall. The University of Stirling has chosen to use the Tracker because we know how important digital issues are to you. The […]
Introducing the new Office 365 App Launcher
You may have noticed that your student email (Office 365) has changed recently. Microsoft have made some changes and there is now a newer version of the Office 365 app launcher. You should find it easier to find recently used apps, and there are additional customisation options. You can access the new features by clicking […]
Electronic book access problems – now resolved
Further to our earlier post we are pleased to report that access problems to Dawson’s Books have now been resolved. Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.
Temporary access problem with Dawson’s electronic books
Along with other universities, we are currently experiencing problems with access to some of our electronic books, specifically those from our supplier called Dawson’s Books. Dawson’s Books are aware of these problems and Library staff are in contact with the company about this issue. There is currently no timescale available for when this issue will be resolved. […]
Altmetric Profile for any ORCID
Within the new version 2 of our Altmetric for Institutions you can now search by ORCID iD. Increasingly authors are managing their publication lists using ORCID profiles. Now in Altmetric, you can enter any ORCID iD in the main search bar to find the associated Altmetric data for research outputs connected to that ORCID. Make […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Strong is the New Slim: A Study of the Body and Gender Amongst Female Free Weights Users. By Robyn Spice http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24355 What is, and what might be, learned […]
Altmetric – Stirling latest data refresh complete
Altmetric for Institutions at Stirling is a service that monitors and reports on the attention research papers are receiving on the web. Four times a year Stirling sends publication details from our Research Management System (RMS), STORRE and DataSTORRE to Altmetric so they can refresh the data they hold about us. Altmetric then track […]
TurnitinUK Downtime for Maintenance – Saturday 5th November
We have been notified by TurnitinUK that due to planned maintenance the Turnitin service will be unavailable from 1-6pm on Saturday 5th November. Please be aware that no submissions or grading will be possible through this service during this time. We therefore advise that submission deadlines are set outside of this maintenance window. For further information […]
Open research practices
The results of a survey of Wellcome researchers to find out what they think about open research, how they practice it, and some of the barriers they face have just been published in a report. This work was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and […]