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 […]
Studying for exams
With exams approaching, it’s important for many students to have quiet study space. When using the Stirling campus Library please be aware that others may be distracted by your conversation and respect their requirement for quiet study. People who prefer to revise in groups should try to make use of the Group Study Rooms and […]
New Library Exhibition – the Battle for Scotland
The Battle for Scotland charts the evolution of political election literature throughout the twentieth century. It features examples of election material from all the major political parties relating to Local, General and Scottish elections. The exhibition also focuses on the 1979, 1997 and 2011 Referendums relating to the establishment of a Scottish Parliament and proposed […]
Library late opening
This message applies to Stirling Campus only The University Library will commence late opening for exams from this Friday (29th) and will continue to open until 2am every day until 31st May inclusively. Opening will be self-service only from 10pm – 2am Monday – Thursday, and 7pm – 2am Friday – Sunday (with […]
Emerald Day – Win an iPad!
Don’t miss the chance to attend one of the Emerald Publishing presentations or training sessions. There are 3 different options for staff and students on Thursday 5th May at the Enterpise Zone in the library.  ·        Insider’s Guide to Getting Published (90mins). Starting at: 9.30, 12 or 4 ·        Database Training (30 mins) Starting […]