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 […]
WebCT Downtime Tues 5th July
WebCT will be down from 8.00am – 08.30am on Tuesday 5th July to pre-empt issues with the database server. Apologies for any inconvenience
2010 edition of the Journal Citation Reports now available
Journal Citation Reports are useful tools which can help you to identify the journals with the greatest total cites and highest impact in your field, and journals which are relevant to your research and in which it would be desirable to publish.  There are two editions of the Journal Citation Reports – the Science edition […]
Celebrating Stirling’s research – new display in the Library
Throughout the summer the Stirling campus Library is hosting a display which celebrates our institutional research. The display contains a selection of posters from our research students which were presented at the recent SGRS Research Conference. Also on display are a selection of book jackets from titles published by our academic staff.
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]