Bristol Online Surveys have redesigned and rebuilt their system and are in the process of migrating all existing accounts over to the new service. The upgrade includes new and enhanced features such as new question types, routing options dependent on user responses and greater flexibility in editing – full details are available at http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/support/news/bos-is-changing. […]
Staff and student print system maintenance: Thurs 5 Feb, 07.30
Information Services need to take the staff and student print service (PaperCut) offline for a short period to modify the configuration. This will interrupt all printing/copying/scanning activity across campus for a short period tomorrow morning Thursday 5 February from 07:30 during the agreed At Risk period. We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. […]
Mid semester/Reading week Library opening hours
During the mid semester / Reading period (Mon 16th – Friday 27th February), the Stirling campus library is continuing on e-x-t-e-n-d-e-d opening hours as follows:
Impact of articles in STORRE – new Altmetric badges
Altmetric Badges, that give a visual indicator of the impact a publication has had on the Web, have been added to STORRE. As a result of some local development work, you’ll now see the badges at the top of any STORRE record that has an Altmetric score. Altmetrics are a new way […]
Tweet about your thesis #ShareMyThesis
The British Library is currently running a Twitter based competition for all PhD authors and current doctoral students, inviting them to say why their doctoral research is/was important, using the hashtag #ShareMyThesis. It’s great seeing the range of incredible research – https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23sharemythesis&src=typd The competition aims to raise awareness of the importance of […]
Research bites for Spring 2015
The IS subject librarians are again providing their successful lunchtime briefing sessions for researchers– please see below for details, and booking links. A course descriptor is given on the sign up sheet. All sessions are on a Wednesday, except for ‘Guide to getting published’ (April 13th) which is a Monday. All the sessions are at […]
Work coming soon to address Wi-Fi speed in off campus residences
Early in the current academic year Information Services became aware that performance of network connectivity from the residences at Union Street (including Bayne Street and Lower Bridge Street), John Forty’s Court, and Lyon Crescent had fallen below an acceptable standard. These properties rely on 100Mbps leased circuits to connect them to the University campus […]
DOI links not working – update: now working
The problem below with DOI links has now been resolved and DOI links are working properly again. This was a worldwide problem and it turns out the issue was that “somebody forgot to renew the dx.doi.org domain name” (come on we’ve all done something like that!) – details at: http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/01/problems-with-dx-doi-org-on-january-20th-2015-what-we-know.html —————- There is currently […]
Detecting phishing emails – more dodgy emails doing the rounds
Today we have received a number of enquiries from staff who have received emails which look as if they might have come from admin@stir.ac.uk. These are the latest round of phishing emails, designed to trick users into thinking that they are required to undertake a task of some sort (such as validating your email […]
New look portal due for blast off Thursday 8th Jan
As advertised before xmas, IS are about to launch a new look portal on 8th January. To find out more about the changes, see our portal relaunch page. To allow the new look portal to be implemented, the portal service will be unavailable on Thursday 8th January from 12-2 (and ‘at risk’ up to 4pm). […]