The Stirling campus library is now on extended opening hours until 16 December. Full details below:  Extended Exam Hours From 14 November 2011 – 16 December 2011 inclusive  Monday – Friday 08.30 – 2am (Self Service from 8pm) Saturday/Sunday 10.00 – 2am (Self Service from 5pm) Â
Try it before it goes! BioOne Trial Ends 18th Nov
Studying or researching Science? Let us know what you think of BioOne. You can access BioOne via the Portal‘s A-Z list of online resources. Here is more information from the providers: For more details and to give us feedback, please contact Lisa Haddow or Elizabeth Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews Subject Librarian
Open Access Week 24-30th Oct 2011
To celebrate Open Access week, read inspirational stories collated by Knowledge Exchange to celebrate the power and influence of Open Access publishing. The Knowledge Exchange expresses the vision: ‘To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.’ For more information, see the Knowledge Exchange webpages. What the Knowledge Exchange say […]
ESRC Festival of Social Science
To mark the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Festival of Social Science (29th October to 5th November 2011) we will be highlighting some of the Library’s social science resources on our Twitter account. More information about the Festival is available here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/  Various events are planned for the festival, which aims to demonstrate how social […]
New look ZETOC coming in November
ZETOC, the British Library’s electronic table of contents alerting service, will be upgraded on 15th November 2011. ZETOC provides information about over 28,000 journals and 45 million article citations and conference papers. It covers all academic disciplines and is available from the A-Z list of online resources.  The upgrade to ZETOC will improve data accuracy, […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Friday 2 December 2011
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 2 December 2011 at 1.00pm, room still to be confirmed, Stirling Campus. All are welcome. IT and Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Please send any items for the agenda to IS […]
ACM Digital Library Online Training
Online training for Computing Science students! The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library are holding an online training event. Â The session will run from from 11:00am (EDT) until 12:00pm (EDT) on October 20th 2011. It is designed as an introductory session for the Author, Institutional, & Publication Profile Pages. Â To join the […]
STORRE closed for deposit: 24th-26th Oct
STORRE will be closed for deposit between Monday 24th October and Wednesday 26th October whilst work is undertaken to bring it in to line with the new University structure. STORRE will, however, remain open for browsing and searching during this period. If you have an item that you must submit to STORRE whilst this […]
New Social Study Zone now open
The area in between the new Library entrance and the Atrium fast food bar (formerly used as the Interim library) has now been reopened to students as the Social Study Zone. This is an extension to the existing study space available in the Library and the Atrium areas. The concept of “social learning space” is central […]
Loss of Internet Connectivity, Friday 21/10/11 22:00 – Saturday 22/10/11 07:00
We have been notified by our service provider that due to motorway construction work, the telecoms fibres which provide the university with JANET and Internet connectivity will be disconnected for 4-8 hours during the stated window. This work also affects our backup circuit, so there will be no external connectivity whatsoever during the outage. Â […]