EBSCO who provide many of our journal article databases including – ATLA Religion; Business Source premier; CINAHL (nursing and allied health): EconLIt; Health Source; International Political Science Abstracts; PsycInfo; SportDiscus and British Education Index, will provide a training workshop specially for University of Stirling staff and research students. The session is aimed specifically at researchers […]
Top ten downloads from STORRE in September 2014
As reported in our recent ISSUE Newsletter (No 97 June 2014) STORRE, the University’s open access research repository, has been integrated with the IRUS-UK statistics portal. IRUS-UK collects usage data from a number of UK Repositories and can provide institutional-level usage data. This September was our first full month of the integration and so […]
If you like RefWorks you will love Write-N-Cite
Write-N-Cite connects your word processer to RefWorks so that you can cite references and update your bibliography automatically as you write your essay. Come along to our introductory classes to find out more. The following training sessions are available to undergraduate and taught postgraduate students: Tuesday 28th 1200-1300 Getting to grips with Write-N-Cite Wednesday 29th […]
Getting to Grips with Refworks – Training Sessions in October
Struggling to format and keep track of your references? Use Refworks! RefWorks allows you to store your references online and insert them into your essays in the correct format. Come along to our introductory classes to find out more. The following training sessions are available for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students: Monday 27th 1200-1300 Getting to […]
E-Books
Some e-books (Dawson ERA) may not allow you to download content at present. You can still however read these e-books online.This is a temporary fault which the publisher is working to resolve as soon as possible. Use the Library Catalogue to find out what e-books are available from Stirling University.
Did you miss the Essential Guide to Library And IT?
And do you want to know how to print/copy, find a book in the library (just wait til you get those reading lists!), how to use Succeed, how to save your work, or download free software? Well if you do, why don’t you come along to the IS (Library and IT) Induction on Friday […]
Succeed mobile app
If you’re having difficulty connecting to Stirling with the Succeed mobile app (Blackboard Mobile Learn), simply search for Stirling again and use the new ‘University of Stirling’ link. You should then be able to connect as normal. Simon Booth Succeed Administrator
New Wi-Fi service – it’s getting closer!
As we get closer to the launch of the new on campus Wi-Fi solution (going live by the end of this week), here is some information about the new service: You should only have to set up each of your devices once, thereafter they’ll connect automatically to our eduroam network Basic principle will be […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in August
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of August. The theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work for publication: Evaluation of the ecological impacts of beaver reintroduction on aquatic systems by Alan Law. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20767 Ageing […]
New Referencing Style – Harvard Stirling University
A new referencing style called Harvard Stirling University (HSU) has been developed for use with RefWorks. Find out more about HSU at: http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/Harvard-Stirling. HSU takes into account feedback received about the other Harvard styles in RefWorks (e.g. some people wanted the date in round brackets and they did not like the author name in upper […]