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 […]
Working from home over the winter
It’s that time of year again! So far the weather hasn’t been too bad (famous last words) but while the going is good, it’s wise to plan ahead for spells of less mild weather. Information Services has prepared information on how to access your work PC from home (only needed if there are specific […]
Holiday opening/closing times for the Libraries and Study Zone
Stirling Campus Main Library Monday 16 Dec – Monday 23rd December: open vacation hours. Mon-Thurs: 08:00-20:00, Fri 08:00-17:00, Weekends 10:00-17:00 Tuesday 24th Dec: open 08:00-14:00 Tuesday 25th Dec-Sun 5th January – CLOSED From Monday 6th January – open on vacation hours Full listing at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/student/library/about/hours/ Stirling Campus Study Zone The Study Zone next […]
Turnitin maintenance, Saturday Dec 21st 2013
The Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, December 21st, 2013, from 15.00 to 19.00. 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
New Set of Research Bites Sessions
We are running a new set of Research Bites sessions over this winter as the summer set was so successful. These sessions are aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. They take place over lunchtimes (12.30 to 1.30) to enable you to be able to spare the time! They will all take place in […]
Doing your dissertation with Microsoft Word
The book “Doing your dissertation with Microsoft® Word” by Jacques Raubenheimer is now available for borrowing from the library, this book was recently very well reviewed on the Thesis Whisperer blog. The reviewer was “deeply impressed” with the depth of Raubenheimer’s knowledge; saying he offers “nuggets of super user wisdom” and that the author’s […]
Free webinar Using doctoral theses in your research: a guide to EThOS
The British Library is holding a free webinar on how their EThoS PhD theses service works. Webinar on 10 December 2013, 11.00am GMT Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5131544266794515713 EThOS http://ethos.bl.uk is the UK’s national database for PhD theses, managed by the British Library. It’s a fantastic resource for researchers, with over 100,000 UK theses freely […]
Feedback wanted for Data Citation Principles
People have been working on data citation issues for a long time. Different groups and different communities have come up with different guidelines and recommendations on how data should be cited. The different approaches generally agree in principle, but there are some distinct differences. At the first Plenary of RDA people from many organizations came to […]
New reading lists for Spring 2014
Within the Aspire reading list software, references link to the book or journal details in the library catalogue, so students can immediately check availability, place holds, etc. References to our electronic journal articles can link directly to the article. Lists can include references to paper materials, as well as links to web sites and other […]