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 […]
Endnote training for researchers – sign up now
EndNote is our reference management software for researchers. We have an EndNote Fundamentals class coming up: 16th November 11.00 – 12.30 or 7th December 11.30 – 1.00 Location: Training Room 1 on Level 4 of the Stirling Campus Library. The class will give an introduction to the most commonly used EndNote […]
Be more squirrel.
From Monday 31st October we are running a campaign to remind you to bring your ID card to the Library. This is needed for the entry gates as well as printing and taking your books out. Normally the library receptionists will note your student number and open the gates manually for you. However this takes up […]
Open Access: Publisher memberships
Publisher memberships The University currently provides a fund of £250k to spend on Open Access: publisher memberships, APC and publication costs. To apply to the APC fund you need to fulfil eligibility criteria – see here for further information and the application form. Many publishers now offer discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs), so […]
EndNote Version 7.7 now available
The latest version of our reference management software Endnote is now available for University computers. You can download version 7.7 from Run Advertised Programs (before you start close Word and Outlook email): If you have previously downloaded version 7.5, then within Run Advertised Programs select: ‘EndNote X7.7 Update – Update’ If you have not downloaded […]
Our favourite Open Access films
If you want to learn more about Open Access these are our favourite short films explains what Open Access is and what Licences are. “What is Open Access” “Creative Commons: a shared culture” Don’t forget we have loads of information on our web pages at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/researchers/writing/publishingimpact/open-access/ JISC – Open Access hour: live Twitter […]
Not only is it reading week this week, but it is also Open Access week!
We are planning a series of posts throughout the week so here’s one on what OPENAIRE are planning to do this week: OpenAIRE webinars As OA week is a truly international event, OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) has scheduled a full week of webinars on various exciting Open Science topics. During the […]