There are many online primary sources about the First World War. The Great War Archive contains over 6500 items such as letters, diaries and photographs relating to personal experiences of WW1. The Great War Poetry Archive contains images, audio visual materials and texts relating to the War Poets such as Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves. The […]
IS Service Changes from 1 November
Information Services like other areas of the University is facing a significant challenge in meeting its budget reduction commitments resulting from the implementation of Future Directions. Following recent staff changes, there will be some changes to services and the types of delivery of services to reflect better the current skills and capacity of Information Services. […]
University Archives on Flickr
A selection of images from the university’s archive collections are now available on Flickr. A new University of Stirling Archives site provides access to a range of material from the archives including photographs of the construction and development of the university, prospectuses and student handbooks from the 1970s and the photograph albums of the film […]
Book you want isn’t in the Library?
If you can’t find books or journal articles in the Library that are on your reading list, or recommended to your class, then let us know and the Library will buy them.  Just fill in the Request forms:  Request the Library buy a book Request the Library buy a journal article  Then […]
Business information moves into Premier league
Business Source Elite has now been upgraded to Business Source Premier. The University now has access to this key business resource purchased by 14 of the top 15 graduate business schools in the UK (according to Financial Times rankings). Business Source Premier significantly increases the number of business, management and economics journals available to staff […]
Looking for journal articles on political topics?
Try our new look IPSA (International Political Science Abstracts) database. IPSA will help you locate articles from over 1000 of the world’s leading political science journals.  To see if the articles from your IPSA search are available from the library use WebBridge   To find out more about library resources for politics try […]
Study Zone opens
Located in a temporary building on the grass next to the old Library building, the Study Zone can seat up to 200 students for individual study (upstairs). Downstairs it has a number of group study rooms which are available on a first come first served basis for the time being. If you would prefer to […]
ScienceDirect unavailable on Saturday 19th Sept.
ScienceDirect, which provides electronic journals for many of our subjects, will be down for maintainance on Saturday 19th September. ScienceDirect journals will be unavailable from 1pm on Saturday until 2am on Sunday.  If you have any problems accessing electronic journals on Saturday please try again on Sunday.  library@stir.ac.uk
Journal archive from Taylor & Francis
The University Library has now purchased the following journal archives from Taylor & Francis. These have been bought as they provide us with a secure archive, back to the first issue of the journal. A link to a list of the titles included is below. Details of these journals will be added to the library […]
Latest edition of IS newsletter (ISSUE) now out
The latest edition (number 77, July 2009) of the Information Services newsletter, ISSUE, is now available on the IS web site at:  http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/aboutis/issue.php  Printed copies will be available early week beginning 3rd August.  See articles on: STORRE’s historic 1,000th item latest edition of Journal Citation Reports introducting Stirling Connect Publish or Perish […]