Anyone researching or studying History, Geography or Environmental Science may be interested in Historic Digimap, which provides access to Ordnance Survey mapping data from the period 1843 to 1996. It is part of the Digimap service, which allows registered users to view and create maps using OS map data. The Historic Digimap service allows you […]
WebCT Shutdown
Now that all running modules are on Succeed and extensions for students have ended or will shortly end, it is time to plan the closure of the WebCT service and remove the link from the Portal. The purpose of this message is to describe how this will be done and to reassure staff that all […]
Library Anywhere – the library on your mobile
Have you tried accessing the library catalogue from your mobile phone? Library Anywhere takes the library catalogue and makes it mobile, instantly—so you can do things like search the catalogue, see what you have checked out, renew items, and more. What can you do? Search catalogue, place holds, renew items. It does what the […]
Win a Google Nexus 7! Complete our short survey
Information Services would like to hear about your usage of mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. This will assist in us catering our services towards the devices you use. Please complete the 2 minute survey below and enter your student email address when prompted. You will then be entered into our […]
Stirgate
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 The single search box searches manuscripts, early printed books, and historical documents from libraries, archives, publishers and universities.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 […]