Digimap has some upcoming webinars and a free training event in London. Booking is available via the links below. 19 February 2014, 4-4:30pm– Webinar, Making the most of Roam: http://edina.ac.uk/events/courses/2014-02-19-roam.html 26 February 2014, 4-4:30pm – Webinar, Environment Digimap: http://edina.ac.uk/events/courses/2014-02-26-environment_digimap.html 6 March 2014 – Digimap Collections workshop, Imperial College London: http://edina.ac.uk/events/courses/2014-03-06_digimap_collections.html […]
Web of Science performance issues – now fixed
The server problems which affected Web of Science on 13th January have now been resolved.
New look for Web of Science
Web of Science will be sporting a new look from Sunday 12th January 2014. After this date the Web of Knowledge branding will be discontinued. More information about these changes and a preview of the site can viewed on the Web of Science website. To access Web of Science, please use the A-Z list of […]
RefWorks login problems now fixed
The login problems with RefWorks reported earlier have now been resolved. You should now be able to login to RefWorks without any problems. If you do encounter any difficulties please contact our Information Centre: infocentre@stir.ac.uk Clare Allan Subject Librarian
RefWorks login problems at Stirling and across UK
A number of users of RefWorks have reported that their RefWorks account is suddenly not being recognised. Instead, users are receiving a pop-up saying that their email address appears to be invalid and they are being prompted to re-enter their email address. PLEASE NOTE: if you see this message when accessing RefWorks please DO NOT […]
Thesis Whisperer Blog: Top 10 posts from 2013
The Thesis Whisperer blog has compiled a list of their top ten most popular posts from 2013. The list includes: How to write faster 5 time management ideas… from part time PhD students How NOT to hand in your PhD How to create ‘authoritative voice’ in your writing You can see the full […]
Change of date to Turnitin maintenance period
The Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, January 4th, 2014. This replaces the previously announced maintenance on December 21st. An announcement will appear for users within Turnitin in advance of when the system will be unavailable for this scheduled maintenance. Simon Booth Succeed Adminstrator
Holiday access to resources – study space, PCs, direct links to services
The Library and Information Services are closed from 2pm on Tuesday 24th December until 9am Monday 6th January. However the Study Zone next to the Stirling Library will be open throughout the holidays 24/7. It provides study space and PC and printer access. As our email accounts will only be monitored sporadically over […]
Presentation from EThOS webinar now available
In December the British Library held a webinar on how their EThoS PhD theses service could be useful for your research. The webinar was aimed at researchers, students, librarians and anyone who is interested in finding and using PhD theses. The presentation from the webinar is now available and EThOS will be updating their […]
Environment Digimap: access until 31 July 2014
Environment Digimap offers land cover map data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). University of Stirling has access until 31st July 2014 while the Collection is free from EDINA. Environment Digimap offers two facilities: mapping through Environment Roam, and the ability to download data through Environment Download. The data available, CEH’s […]