Systems and Network Services will be performing some essential hardware maintenance on Saturday 27th August 2011 which will cause disruption to the following web services from 9.00am: <ul All University Divisional web sites Stirling Online Research Repository (STORRE) (old) WebCT The University Core web site (www.stir.ac.uk), the Portal, and the new Succeed service […]
Teachers’ Collection temporarily unavailable
Due to a leak in the Stirling campus Library the Teachers’ Collection is temporarily unavailable. Please ask at the Information Centre if you require access to this collection. We will post an update when we have more information.
Historic Books – a new resource for locating literature
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to Historic Books a new resource for locating and accessing literature. Historic Books, from JISC, provides access to over 360,000 online books. It replaces our access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and contains resources accessible from Early English Books Online (EEBO). Also contained in […]
MediaHub – a new resource for locating audio visual resources
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to MediaHub, a brand new resource for locating and accessing audio visual and multimedia resources. MediaHub from JISC provides access to collections of film, audio and image resources including the archives of organisations such as ITN, the Imperial War Museum, The Wellcome Trust, Films of […]
Succeed Launched
Today Succeed is launched. Succeed is the upgrade for WebCT. Formally the launch means that a link has been added to the Portal and this route therefore is the recommended route to Succeed. Watch out for further information about how Succeed can help keep you up-to-date with your modules via the notifications feature. […]
IT Use Policy Changes
The Information Technology Use Policy aims to define what constitutes acceptable use of the University’s IT and to identify management responsibilities for the monitoring of the operation of the policy and the handling of incidents resulting from breaches. A revision of this Policy was agreed at the last meeting of University Court and becomes effective […]
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 […]
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.