Listen Again (recording your lecture presentations with audio) can be configured to work in a number of different ways depending on how you (the lecturer) wish to release the material to students. A couple of options already in use are: (a) We can set up Listen Again to show only the last n days lectures […]
Oxford Scholarship Online
University staff and students now have access to several new collections of ebooks published by Oxford University Press. We have recently subscribed to the following subject collections in Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy (over 1300 titles) Religion (over 1200 titles) History (over 1000 titles) Politics (over 700 titles) This is in addition to […]
Trial access to Alexander Street Video until 30th November 2013
We have trial access to a large collection of online videos from Alexander Street Press. Eventually growing to 20,000 titles, this is a one-stop multidisciplinary resource for students and staff. It covers the following disciplines now, with more to be added as it grows: American history; Anthropology; Area studies; Art and architecture; Business and […]
Getting Published Seminar
Emerald Publishing Group is providing an opportunity to learn more about the art of getting published including: • How to get started • How to target your work more effectively • What editors and reviewers actually look for • How to peer review your own work • The secrets of revision • Beyond publishing (refereeing, […]
Student print system back online
Further to our earlier service message about the problems with the student print system, our staff now have a solution which hopefully addresses the issues. The student print system is back online – please check the printer status page http://labstats.stir.ac.uk//lab.html to check current availability in each location. If any problems occur, please come over […]
Internet service disruption – Sunday/Monday 29/30 September
The University’s data communications service provider has given notice of maintenance works they will be performing between 2200 on Sunday 29 September and 0600 on Monday 30 September, which will impact on the availability and performance of our connection to the internet. The service is designed to be resilient to outages so there will be […]
Not sure how to use the Library? Free workshops at the Stirling Campus
If you haven’t yet worked out how to find books in the Library, how to use our electronic books, how to make sense of your reading list, or how the Short Loan area works – don’t despair, come along to one of our free “Getting to Grips with the Library” workshops. These sessions will help you to become familiar […]
Research bites – feedback wanted
During the summer we ran a pilot programme for Researchers called Research Bites. We have set up a survey to gather feedback on what you thought of the sessions, the timing of the sessions; whether you want sessions repeated and what else you would like to see included. If you did not attend any of […]
Westlaw – access restored (18th September 2013)
Access to the Westlaw legal database has been restored. We apologise for any inconvenience the earlier interuption to the service may have caused.
One machine to rule them all…
Over the summer, a new student print/copy system was installed on Stirling and Highland campuses. The old pharos print stations and photocopiers have been replaced by the Lord of the Machines – it does everything! See our informative 1950s style information bulletin on printing and copying below. As well as photocopying and scanning it does print […]