Due to maintenance work at Emerald there may be disruption today when using some Emerald journal database services including: Search, Alerts, MyAccount and Registration
RMS: new mandatory questions for Open Access compliance
From the afternoon of 18th February 2015 new mandatory questions will be added to the Research Management System (RMS) relating to Open Access publishing. Background On 1st April 2013 the Research Councils UK (RCUK) introduced a new Open Access and Article Processing Charge Policy for publications resulting from their funded projects. The Policy […]
Japan Week 2015 – Library display of art books
Dr Isao Ichige has donated a beautiful set of books, Nihon Bijutsu Zenshu (Japanese art: the complete works) – essentially a history of Japanese culture – to Stirling University. This valuable set of books contains a comprehensive list of Japanese art objects in full colour and with detailed information for each item from […]
Wireless System Downtime, Wednesday 18 February
There will be an interruption to wireless network services before 9am on Wednesday 18 February owing to a major upgrade of the system software. The interruption is expected to be brief, and any devices which are disconnected from eduroam as a result should reconnect automatically when the service resumes. Users of UoS Guest Internet may […]
STORRE: Captcha added to “Request a copy” form
Following a recent spate of SPAM “Request a copy” requests being sent out by a SPAM Robot using the STORRE “Request a copy” form (the form that STORRE users can use to request a copy of embargoed items in STORRE directly from the author), we have now added a Captcha to the form which must […]
Bristol Online Survey system not available Mon 9/Tues 10th Feb
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 […]