Information Services is pleased to announce an additional workshop in our summer Research Bites series. On 19th August we will run a workshop about getting published aimed at early career researchers or those new to academic publishing. It will cover creating your publication strategy, what criteria should you consider when selecting a journal in which to publish, […]
Our ‘Hosts & Champions’ exhibition is shortlisted for the Herald HE awards!
We’re very proud to report that our recent exhibition ‘Hosts and Champions: Scotland in the Commonwealth Games’ exhibition has been shortlisted for the Herald HE awards. ‘Hosts and Champions’ is a touring exhibition celebrating over 80 years of participation and achievement by Scotland in the Commonwealth Games from its origin as the British Empire Games […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in May
We’ve had a great number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. Some of these are publicly available now: Towards a robust Arabic speech recognition system based on reservoir computing by Abdulrahman Alalshekmubarak. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21733 Ensemble classification and signal image processing for genus Gyrodactylus (Monogenea) by Rozniza Ali. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21734 […]
Digimap webinars June and July
Digimap are running 3 webinars in June and July: Wednesday 10th June, 1-1:30pm OS MasterMap and Building Heights – ArcGIS Ian Holmes Wednesday 24th June, 4-4:45pm Digimap Copyright Emma Diffley Wednesday 8th July, 4-4:45pm Digimap for new Site Reps Emma Diffley Register at: http://edina.ac.uk/events/ Note that even after registering: […]
Get Equipped for your Research Journey with Compass
Business Systems Development and Support, alongside the Stirling Graduate School, have been working together to develop a one-stop web-based system for postgraduate researchers. Research Compass has been developed following feedback from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) in 2013. Research Compass seeks to provide a single point of access which enhances the support available […]
Get your students ready for the autumn semester by sending your resource list to the library.
We use the ASPIRE resource list software to produce resource lists where references are linked directly to the library catalogue so students can immediately check if a book is available. The software allows us to create direct links to e-journals and web resources so student can get to their reading with just a couple of […]
Learn something new this summer with our Research Bites workshops
Are you looking to learn more about RefWorks? Do you need guidance on undertaking a systematic review? Do you want to improve your knowledge of data management or tools for collaborative working? Information Services are running a series of workshops from June to August aimed at our research community. All workshops are free to attend […]
lynda.com now tailored for you
Back in November, we introduced you to your new personal trainer lynda. Since then over 4,000 videos have been viewed from the lynda.com site with the most popular course being ‘Excel 2013 Essential Training’. Since the initial launch, a cross team working group led by IS has been looking at how best the university could make use […]
Penguin Books 80th Birthday: Allen Lane: Mercenary or Missionary?
2015 is the 80th anniversary of the first Penguin Books. To mark this milestone, the Library has a selection of books and memorabilia from its collections on display. The Library is fortunate to have a collection of Penguins which is almost complete up to 1960 thanks to Dr Angus Mitchell, former Chair of the University […]
General Election: who you should vote for
Not sure who to vote for on Thursday? There are a number of web sites that can help. A bit like dating sites but for politics (not a sentence you see often) – you are asked questions about your political beliefs and then shown how well you match each of the political parties. […]