The Study Zone on the Stirling Campus will be closed from 7pm on Friday 30th July until 8:30am on Monday 2nd August. Alternative study space is available in the 4W corridor and alternative computer facilities are available in the Cottrell Building.
Digimap Upgrade
Digimap Collections will be unavailable on Tuesday 3rd August from 10am to 4pm. This downtime is needed to complete a hardware upgrade.
Student Print & Copying System Upgrade
The disruption to the Student Print & Copy System was postponed and will take place on Friday 23rd July due to an essential upgrade. On the 23nd July the student printers and copiers are expected to be down for approximately 2 hours. Printing and copying will be provided in the Information Centre in the Interim […]
University and Departmental Website Maintenance, 22 July
The main university external website and some departmental sites will be unavailable for up to 20 minutes during the ‘At Risk’ period (07:30 to 08:30) on Thursday 22nd July, for essential maintenance. We apologise for this loss of service.  Alan Richardson Systems and Network Services Manager
Student Print and Copying System Upgrade
There will be some disruption to the Student Print & Copy System on the 21 and 22 July due to an essential upgrade. On the 22nd July the student printers are expected to be down for approximately 2 hours. Printing and copying will be provided in the Information Centre in the Interim Library at Stirling […]
Highland Campus data link downtime, 21 July
The provider of the data link between Highland Campus and Stirling Campus have informed us that they will be performing essential maintenance on the link between 00:01am and 06:00 am on Wednesday 21st July There will be no network service to Highland Campus users while the link is down. No e-mail should be lost as […]
Library catalogue planned downtime, Tues 13 July
The library catalogue will be down for maintenance on Tuesday 13th July from 4pm. During this time, the library catalogue and your library record will not be available. The Library will be open as usual and issuing books manually.  We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
New look for IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
IBSS is now available from the CSA platform, rather than from EBSCO. The content of the database is unaltered. It is possible to search IBSS and Sociological Abstracts simultaneously by selecting the two resources from the “specific databases” option. IBSS is a useful resource for anyone researching in the fields of politics, social sciences and economics.
Trial of sciences resource CABI available now!
If you are researching topics within the environment, agriculture, applied economics or food science have a look at our month trial access to CAB Abstracts. The trial will finish on the 20th July 2010. To access this database go to: http://isiknowledge.com and from the Select a Database tab in Web of Knowledge choose CABI: (1973-present). For a full […]
Shibboleth upgrade
On Monday 28th June, Information Services will begin the process of transitioning our existing Shibboleth Identity Provider service to the latest version. Shibboleth is an authentication system used at Stirling to provide access to some of the Library’s electronic resources (http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/itsupport/accounts/shibboleth.php  ) and this upgrade is necessary because the current system we are using becomes […]