Born 100 years ago in Edinburgh, Norman MacCaig produced poetry known for its humour, simplicity of language and popularity. While he lived and worked in the city of his birth, he preferred to spend his summers in Assynt in the North West Highlands. Professor Emeritus Rory Watson, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, founding […]
Succeed Downtime 10.00am Saturday 8th October
As a result of the work we have been doing with Blackboard (the company that produces the underlying software) to fix the performance issues with Succeed we have been issued with two patches for the system. These are simple and quick to install but require that the system is stopped to do so. The […]
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities – a new online guide
The London School of Economics has published a new guide to using Twitter for academic and research staff. The online guide describes the practicalities of setting up a Twitter profile and gives advice about writing tweets, finding other academic staff or researchers who use Twitter and how Twitter can be used in a teaching context. […]
6th October 2011 – National Poetry Day
6th October is National Poetry Day, why not mark the event by borrowing a poetry book from Stirling University Library? A list of our poetry collections is available here. To find out more about National Poetry Day visit: http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/
BioOne 6 week trial
BioOne has a current collection of 167 titles from 125 publishers in biology, life sciences, ecology, and environmental sciences. Users have access to a broad range of content in an intuitive and easy to use online database. 70% BioOne titles are currently ranked by ISI 40% of current titles are exclusively available through BioOne A […]
Expanded CINAHL service – great news for nursing and midwifery students
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to CINAHL Full Text. CINAHL is one of the library’s major electronic resources for locating literature on nursing, midwifery and health related topics. This new version of CINAHL contains the full text from over 600 more journals than the previous version. CINAHL Full Text is […]
Succeed restart 8.00am Thursday 29th
Information services have been working closely with Blackboard (the company that produces the underlying software) to understand why we have had two crashes of Succeed and two short periods of poor performance. To this end we have been advised to make number of changes to the system. These changes are designed to produce two outcomes […]
Stirling campus library now open to midnight every day / library zoning
In response to feedback from staff and students in the IS Satisfaction Survey, Library opening hours on Stirling campus have now been extended to midnight seven days a week. These hours will be further extended to 2am during the exam periods. Â The Information Centre will close at 8pm with the building staffed by security […]
Wireless Network in Student Residences
Information Services are now offering Wireless Access Points (WAPs) for sale in the Library. This is in response to the growing number of devices being brought to the University, such as smartphones and iPads, which have WiFi network connectivity but no wired connection.  Although wireless networking (as well as wired) will be installed in […]
Early journal content from JSTOR now freely available
JSTOR have announced that journal content published before 1923 in the United States and before 1870 elsewhere is to be made freely available online to anyone, anywhere in the world. This content covers many disciplines including arts, humanities, politics, economics, mathematics, botany, ecology, law and sociology. Almost half a million articles from over 200 journals […]