The Web of Science platform was updated at the weekend: Cited Reference searching and Advanced searching are now available within All Databases. Cited Reference searching – All Databases A Cited Reference search allows you to find the articles that cited an article of interest. This is a very useful way to search […]
Top 100 most shared articles of 2014
Altmetric have compiled a list of the top 100 academic research articles that caught the public imagination in 2014. The list is based on mentions from a variety of sources, including: mainstream news, blogs, social media, post-publication peer-review forums and platforms such as Reddit and YouTube. To view the list visit: http://www.altmetric.com/top100. […]
Countdown to new look portal
In response to all your feedback on the Portal in our IS Satisfaction Survey 2014, Information Services has been working on a new look for the portal. The new look Portal launches in early January. Get a sneak preview here. What you told us in the survey: “The homepage seems cluttered at times, full of general and, […]
Top Ten favourite characters from a Scottish book
I posted recently about the vote for your favourite character from a Scottish book – well the results are in! Here’s the top 10 – see all the details at the Scottish Book Trust site. 1. Francis Crawford of Lymond The Game of Kings Dorothy Dunnett – see Dorothy Dunnett books in our […]
Extra exam study space: 24/7 Library opening plus more space for study
You said: “we need more study space!!” We did: the Stirling campus library will be open 24/7 from Monday 8th December up until Sun 21st December Haldane’s restaurant is now open for study: weekdays 7am-6pm and weekends 9am-5pm the Enterprise Zone rooms in the Library (level 3) are now open for exam study Levels 3 and […]
Campus libraries: opening hours over holiday period
The opening hours for the Campus libraries for the last week of semester 2014 and the holiday period are as follows: Stirling Campus The last day of extended opening (open 24/7) is Sunday 21 December Monday 22nd December: 8am – 8pm Tuesday 23rd December: 8am – 5pm CLOSED up to and including Sunday 4th January. […]
Maintenance on Stirling Campus Wi-Fi: Thursday 4th December.
Systems and Network Services will be performing some maintenance operations on the Stirling Campus Wireless Network (involving the ‘eduroam’ / ‘UoS Guest Internet’ and ‘UoS Multimedia’ networks) on Thursday 4th December between 0730 and 0830. While we are not expecting any downtime during the maintenance period, there is a small risk of an impact […]
Top ten downloads from STORRE in November 2014
During November there were 26,321 downloads from our research repository, STORRE, covering 2,885 items. The top ten items were: The Role of Creativity in Entrepreneurship. By Fillis, Ian; Rentschler, Ruth http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2518 Downloads: 566 The development of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence: Amnesia and Deja Vu. By Priestley, Mark; Humes, Walter http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2110 Downloads: […]
RefWorks for Staff and Research Students
A representative from RefWorks will provide introductory and advanced training for staff and research students on 16th December in Cottrell Room A1. RefWorks Fundamentals – 16/12/14 0930 am – 1030 am, Cottrell Room A1 This session is ideal if you are fairly new to RefWorks or have not used it for some time […]
Student file store access restored
We are very happy to report that the student filestore server has recovered overnight and access to student home folders is restored. We have tested the student lab PCs this morning and applications, Succeed, OneDrive, etc all seem to be functioning normally. Once again, we apologise for this break in service. Regards, […]