During October there were 33,266 downloads from our University repository, STORRE, covering 3,629 research publications. The top ten downloaded items were: 1. Dimensions of service quality and service climate: a study of bank customers and employees in four local Malaysian banks . By Ab Wahab, Norailis. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1297 Downloads: 628 2. Reporting medication errors and near […]
Turnitin Digital Receipts
Turnitin have advised us that their engineers are investigating the issue with receiving digital receipts for Turnitin assignments. If you are worried you can download a copy of your digital receipt by following these instructions: 1. Navigate to the assignment in Succeed. 2. Click View/Complete. 3. Click on the grey square download button (next to the […]
Coming soon – new look library catalogue and changes to StirGate
A new look for the library catalogue will be launched on 1st December 2016. The upgraded catalogue will offer an increased number of ways to explore the library’s printed and electronic collections. It will be possible to search for printed books, electronic books, printed journals, electronic articles and much more from one simple search box. New […]
Stirling theses digitised from microfilm by British Library EThOS service
We have been working with EThOS on a pilot project to digitise older University of Stirling theses that are part of the British Library’s microfilm collection of UK PhD theses. The microfilm copies were created over many years as part of the pre-EThOS British Thesis Service, and were used to supply thesis loans and […]
Stirling’s #DataSTORRE invited to join SHARE @SHARE_research
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 […]