Research Bites is a new summer programme of lunchtime briefings for researchers. The first session is on Archives and Special Collections on Wednesday 12th June at 12.30pm in the Library Seminar Room. Come along to find out how the Archives and Special Collections might help you with your research. To sign up, please email […]
Upgrade to student email (OWA) on Friday 7th June
Microsoft are preparing to release an upgrade to our student email system (Outlook Web App) this Friday, 7th June. The interface of OWA will change to fall in line with hotmail.com/outlook.com so will look a bit different after the upgrade (but not massively different – it shouldn’t cause you any real problems in doing […]
Conference: Open Access Monographs in Humanities and Social Science, 1 & 2 July 2013, British Library, London
https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/JISC-Collections-events/oabooksconf/ This international conference is the first to focus specifically on the monograph and tackle the issues around open access. Day one will provide an overview on open access in relation to monographs looking at key issues of business models, maintaining quality, the future of peer-review, creative commons licensing and international policy development. Key […]
Library 24/7 Study Zone closed 5th -10th June
The Library Study Zone, adjacent to the main Library building will be closed from Wed 5th June, reopening on Monday 10th June. This is to accommodate the Scotblood conference. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
OA policy for Wellcome extends to books and monographs
The Wellcome Trust extends open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2013/WTP052746.htm “The extended policy will become effective for holders of grants awarded after 1 October 2013, and for existing grantholders from October 2014. The new policy does not apply to textbooks, ‘trade’ books, general reference works or works of fiction, […]
Disruption to Document Delivery Service – 30th May to 3rd June 2013 (Stirling Campus)
Due to the implementation of new software, our Document Delivery Service will be unavailable from 5pm on Thursday 30th May until approximately midday on 3rd June 2013. During this period users of the service will not be able to make any new requests, or check the progress of any previously submitted requests. Any items which […]
Send us your reading list for Autumn 2013 – we do the rest
Within the Aspire reading list software, references link to the book or journal details in the library catalogue, so students can immediately check availability, place holds, etc. References to our electronic journal articles can link directly to the article. Lists can include references to paper materials, as well as links to web sites and other […]
Can I use RefWorks after I graduate?
You can apply for a free RefWorks Alumni Account and transfer your references to it. Alternatively you could transfer your references to a variety of free referencing systems. It is important that you arrange to transfer your references before you actually leave the University as you will require access to the University Portal and your […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Tuesday 28 May 2013
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Tuesday 28 May 2013 at 11.00, 2B87 Stirling Campus. All staff and students are encouraged to attend, in particular Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, and Students’ Union representatives. Alison Green, Senior Teaching Fellow, Deputy Director of Teaching and Learning, School […]
British Library Labs Competition Live – Calling all researchers and developers!
Propose an innovative and transformative project that answers a research question using the British Library’s digital collections / data and if your idea is chosen, the Labs team will work with you to make it happen and you could win a prize of up to £3,000. From the digitisation of thousands of books, newspapers […]