StirGate is Stirling’s academic search engine and it can now be directly accessed from Succeed. It will help you locate books and journal articles for your essays, reports and research. It searches many of the library’s electronic resources including the library catalogue, several large databases (including Scopus, Historical Abstracts, Business Source Premier, PsycINFO, CINAHL, ERIC […]
Getting to Grips with RefWorks workshop
All students are welcome to this Getting to Grips with RefWorks workshop. This is an introductory workshop that will help you to collect, organise and produce lists of references using the RefWorks software. Meet inside the entrance to the Library on: Tues 19th March 11am – 12 noon or Monday 25th March 2pm – 3pm […]
New resource for tracing early printed manuscripts
Anyone researching or studying medieval British history may be interested in a new resource from JISC – Manuscripts Online, which provides access to written materials from the period 1000 – 1500. The single search box searches manuscripts, early printed books, and historical documents from libraries, archives, publishers and universities. Some materials searched are freely available, others may […]
Are you making the most of the Library? Free workshops available
Are you making the most of the University Library? Do you know how to use electronic books, make Short Loan reservations, start researching a topic for an assignment or find journal articles beyond those on your reading list? If not, then one of our “Getting to Grips with the Library” workshops may be just what you need […]
Resource Lists in Succeed
You will have noted that reading lists are now called resource lists (http://blogs.stir.ac.uk/isnews/?p=2688). As with reading lists a Succeed Panel has been developed to display all the resource lists that you have access to: This panel will be added your My Succeed page after Friday 22th February (delayed due to an issue with time periods […]
New Library Access Control – Why?
Returning students will notice that over the winter vacation the new University Library access control system was put into operation. Almost all University Libraries have access control in place. The main reason Stirling hasn’t done so till now is that unlike many other University libraries we do not have a neighbouring University whose students might […]
Staff printing information – PaperCut User Portal
There is a facility within the PaperCut print management system that allows staff to login and look at various aspects of their print account. The most useful feature is the ability to look at the print jobs you currently have pending for release and the ability to cancel any jobs no longer required. To login […]
Reading lists at Stirling (for staff and students)
Reading lists have changed this semester, as we are now using new reading list software called Aspire. As before, you will be able to access your reading lists for your courses from within Succeed. Reading lists are now called Resource lists (to reflect the large number of non-book material, e.g., DVDs) and are accessible […]
Brief Survey on Referencing Management Software for Researchers
Information Services is conducting a survey about Reference Management Software. What software (if any) do you use to collect, store and cite references to publications? Whether you use no software, RefWorks, Mendeley or some other software: Information Services would like to know your views. If you are academic staff, a researcher or Research Postgraduate […]
Succeed opening dates for spring semester 2013
Remember that modules now open the week before semester starts. This means that Spring semester modules open on the following dates: 1st/2nd year modules – Monday 4th February 3rd/4th year modules – Tuesday 5th February Post-graduate modules – Wednesday 6th February Some modules from departments may open on different days (such as History and […]