Turnitin services may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 15.00 to 19.00.
Upgrade to student filestore and introducing Box
On Tuesday 23rd February (during the Reading Week), Information Services will be undertaking an upgrade to the servers that host student network file store (home folders). The upgrade will make the service more resilient and will be undertaken between 6-7:30 on Tuesday morning to inconvenience as few people as possible. All existing files will […]
IT security – how savvy are you ?
Are you super secure or are there a few areas which need tightened? Information Services have prepared a short IT security quiz in Succeed for staff to take. It should take under 10 minutes to complete with 14 multiple choice/true or false answers. The purpose of the exercise is to discover the general level […]
Export to RefWorks Problem
The export to RefWorks function currently is experiencing difficulties and in many instances fails. There is a higher chance of success if you login to RefWorks before exporting references from a database e.g. from Stirgate, but this does not always work. This problem is affecting all UK universities and RefWorks are working on a fix.
New semester: new technology – introducing Box for students
Undergraduate and taught postgraduate students at all our campuses now have access to Box, our cloud storage tool which was launched on Monday 18th January 2016. Box offers our students an unlimited cloud based option for storing documents. Using Box makes it very easy to share documents and work collaborative on group projects. To find […]
New look for House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
The new semester is almost here, and for anyone researching or studying British political or parliamentary history, the new year brings a new look for the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP). HCPP is a major resource covering all aspects of British social, economic and political history from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Providing electronic access to Bills, […]
The University of Stirling now has access to Altmetric for Institutions
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 […]
Were you lucky enough to get an Apple Watch for Christmas?
Get the most from your new smartwatch with these expert Apple Watch tips and tricks. This online course shows you how to customise Glances, set haptic strength, customise and clear notifications, quickly sildence the Apple Watch, arrange apps and quickly switch between them, and use Siri effectively.
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 […]