Library catalogue downtime Wed 13 July

The library catalogue will be unavailable on Wednesday 13 July from 08.30 due to essential maintenance work.  It is hoped to have access restored on Wednesday but the system will continue to be at risk during Thursday 14 July.   It will still be possible to borrow from the campus libraries although self issue and […]

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Library catalogue downtime postponed

This message applies to Stirling and Highland campuses   The advertised downtime for essential maintenance of the Library catalogue this week (Wednesday 15th and possibly going into Thursday 16th) has been postponed to July. We will provide advance notice of the new dates as soon as they are known.   Information Services     The […]

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Using video and images to support teaching

If you are interested in using moving images, sound clips or pictures to support your teaching, library staff have created a list of quality assured, copyright cleared resources. The list includes film and TV clips, multimedia resources from museums, archival music and sound recordings and much more. See http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/resource-db/subj-list.php?subject=58

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Library catalogue downtime Wed 15th June

This message applies to staff and students on all campuses.   The Library catalogue will be unavailable during Wed 15th June for essential maintenance.  It is hoped to have access restored during Thursday 16th June but it is possible that the catalogue will remain down for some time during that day also.  At Stirling campus […]

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Protecting and using intellectual assets

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has just released a new guide for universities on managing intellectual assets. The new guide provides advice and information for universities to help them understand how they can best use their institution’s intellectual property. This can be an invention, a trade mark, an original design or the application of a […]

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New additions to StirGate – arXiv and OAIster

Two new resources, arXiv and OAIster, have recently been added to StirGate. arXiv contains links to the full text of over 600,000 preprints of scientific papers covering disciplines including mathematics, computing science, quantitative biology and statistics. OAIster is a specialist search engine which searches freely available digital resources of interest to the academic community. OAISter includes more […]

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Open User Forum Meeting – Friday 20th May 2011

REMINDER   Please note that there will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 20 May at 11.00am in 2B86, Cottrell Building, Stirling Campus.    All staff and students are welcome to attend.  Come along and meet the Director of Information Services and Departmental representatives.   Ian Murray, Deputy Head of School of […]

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