On Wednesday 20th August Information Services staff will be upgrading the DSpace software that underpins the University’s Institutional Repository, STORRE (http://storre.stir.ac.uk/) from DSpace v1.6 to DSpace v4.1. This is a major upgrade and, due to the amount of local customisations to the Open Source DSpace software that we have carried out at Stirling, it can’t […]
Changes to Education databases (BEI & ERIC) and new resources for educational research
Two of the Library’s largest education databases are now sporting a new look. British Education Index and ERIC are now available from EBSCO, rather than ProQuest. The EBSCO interface will be familiar to anyone who has searched StirGate, SportDiscus, Business Source Premier or Historical Abstracts. As before, it is possible to search BEI and ERIC simultaneoulsy, simply select one of the […]
Succeed annual upgrade
The proposed date for this year’s upgrade to Succeed is Saturday 30th August. We expect the system to be down between 10.00-12.00am. The new features that the ‘April 2014 Release’ bring for staff are documented here. Simon Booth Succeed Administrator
The demise of Stirling Connect
Information Services plan to close down ‘Stirling Connect’ on Wednesday 1st October. The service is hardly used these days — it used to provide a useful service during Induction but this activity now largely takes place in Facebook negating the need for Connect. If you are currently using Connect please get in touch to discuss […]
Stirling research theses added to STORRE in July
We had a number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during the month of July. The theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work for publication: Death and Dying in Human and Companion Canine Relations by Maria Desougi. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20552 Enviromental factors […]
New library content: IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Stirling University Library now has access to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library until 29th November 2015, thanks to an excellent SHEDL deal (Scottish Higher Education Digital Library). IEEE Xplore Digital Library provides access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library which features content from IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) as well as IET (Institution […]
Library Catalogue : electronic journal records now back
The problem we were experiencing with the Library Catalogue that was preventing electronic journal records being loaded has now been fixed and our latest ejournal load has been successful. So you can once again use the Library Catalogue to search for the electronic journal titles that we have access to. We apologise for […]
Essential maintenance works to University telephone system: Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 August
Estates and Campus Services are carrying out essential maintenance works to the University’s telephone system which are scheduled to commence this Saturday 2 August and continue throughout the weekend. This may result in some temporary disruption to normal service over the course of the weekend which it is aimed to be kept to a minimum. […]
Library Catalogue problem: no electronic journal records
**UPDATE – To address the problem below, the library catalogue will be unavailable for a short period this afternoon (Fri 25th) from 4:30pm. The ejournal records will then hopefully be reloaded over the weekend.** The Library Catalogue currently has some problems around the coverage and catalogue of our electronic journal records. Each month the […]
New 2013 Journal Metrics from Scopus announced
Elsevier have announced the release of the 2013 Journal Metrics based on Scopus data. The metrics provide methods for assessing the citation impact a journal makes and are all available for free download at http://www.journalmetrics.com. The impact metrics are based on methodologies developed by external bibliometricians and use Scopus as the data source. […]