On Monday 24 October there is planned downtime for some essential maintenance to Succeed. Please note that the planned downtime is 7.00am-11.00am. There are two pieces of work planned for Monday: Upgrade to cumulative update 3 for our release of Succeed. This is bug fixes and has no new features but it does fix a […]
Altmetric Version 2 now available
Today Stirling’s Altmetric for Institutions has been upgraded to version 2. Altmetric is a tool that tracks social media attention of research outputs: journal articles, data, etc. Version 2 provides a more efficient interface, excellent reporting capabilities and advanced search functionality. Find research outputs: Use Altmetric to search across Stirling’s research or explore the Altmetric […]
Study Zone- More PCs
We plan to move around 30 study desks with PCs into the 24-hour Study Zone, and re-configure the existing study furniture. To minimise disruption the work will be undertaken during reading week ( beginning 24th October). The majority of the area will be closed off on those days to allow contractors to carry out the […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in September #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during September. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Silence and Representation in Selected Postcolonial Texts. By Tirzah Zachariah. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24136 An Ethnographic Exploration of the Substance Use of Young People Living in Temporary Homeless Accommodation. By Jennifer […]
IDS Employment Law on Westlaw – One Month Trial
Carry out employment law research with IDS Employment Law Brief, Cases, Handbooks and Current Awareness. Everything from unfair dismissal to annual leave – key topics in employment law are all available in Westlaw during October. Select Westlaw from http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/law and click thee IDS Employment Law tab at the top. Let us know what you think about […]
New look for MLA International Bibliography
As from today the MLA International Bibliography has a new look and feel. The search interface is very similar to Stirgate, and the functionality which was available in the old MLA is still there now (e.g. searching for a literary author as a subject). The MLA International Bibliography indexes research in Literature and Language. Check it out on the […]
Maintenance on Emerald Journals Tuesday 4th October
There may be disruption to the Emerald database on Tuesday 4th October affecting the following functions: Search Alert subscriptions Activating access tokens Adding publications as favourites Any changes to ‘My Account’ and ‘Institutional Account’ E-commerce Registration
Malicious telephone calls
Please be advised that a number of staff have reported receiving telephone calls from unknown or other external numbers on their University extensions, which appear to be malicious cold-callers. Typically, the phone calls have been either accident-claim companies, or individuals claiming to be from the University IT department and/or ‘Windows Technical Support’, requesting access to […]
Stirling’s research papers for Scottish Climate Week #ScotClimateWeek
To mark Scottish Climate Week we’ve compiled a list of the climate related publications from the University of Stirling research repository: STORRE. It’s great to see the broad range of work from across the University: from papers about governance dimensions of climate and energy security to managing climate change in conservation practice to carbon dependency and […]
Cloud computing webinars in October – learn more about Box
Free online training sessions about using Box, Stirling’s cloud storage tool, are now open for booking. More information and a link to sign up can be found here. Box offers all students and staff at the University of Stirling free, unlimited cloud storage and provides anytime, anywhere and any device access to your files. […]