From 27th April until 29th May 2008 the Library will offer extended opening. The Library will offer 24-hour opening apart from Friday and Saturday nights when it will close at 7pm and re-open at 9am the following morning. During the additional hours, i.e. from 10pm – 9am Monday – Thursday nights, 4pm – 7pm Saturday […]
Building work and associated noise
Building work is now in progress on Level 1 of the Library and also in the Studies Area (s19). This is the first phase of the work being done as part of the New Library project. See our web page for more info on the project.  The quietest areas of the Library will therefore […]
Read a classic on World Book Day
Love reading? Always promised yourself that you’d read one of the classics of literature? To celebrate World Book Day on 5th March, the Stirling Campus Library has a display of classic literature close to the Library entrance. All books on display can be borrowed as usual at the Lending Services Desk. Once you have read […]
Mid semester and Easter opening hours
Mid semester week and Easter weekend opening hours for Stirling campus are now available on the IS website. See full opening hours page. Click here for Highland campus opening hours. Monday 6 April – Monday 13 April 2009 Inc.  Library Opening Hours Monday 09:00 – 19:00 Tuesday 09:00 – 19:00 Wednesday 09:00 – 19:00 […]
Major enhancement to Journal Citation Reports
Additional useful metrics have been added to Journal Citation Reports in their recent update. (Reminder of what the Journal Citation Reports are). Â New metrics added: Â 5 year Impact Factor: considered a better measure for journals in slower moving areas (traditional Impact Factors are based on 2 years of data). Â Summary Rank in […]
Landmap service – free aerial photographs of UK
The Landmap service has acquired additional data which is free for UK HEIs to use. The new data is Colour Infra-Red Aerial Photograp of the UK and a 5m Digital Terrain Model of Egland and Wales. For further information about Landmap see http://landmap.mimas.ac.uk/landmap/index.php/Table/Datasets/ and for their learning materials see http://landmap.mimas.ac.uk/landmap/index.php/Table/Learning-Materials/.  Landmap are hosting a […]
What do you think of StirGate? – Quick Poll on IS Home Page
***POLL NOW FINISHED*** StirGate is a new way of searching for journal articles, web sites and other useful publications, and we’d like to know what you think of it.   Let us know by clicking on the Quick Poll on the Information Services home page.  Far more important than X Factor, Celebrity Big Brother, Your […]
Latest edition of Journal Citation Reports now available
Journal Citation Reports are an immensely useful tool and can help with identifying: – journals with the greatest total cites and the highest impact in your field – journals relevant to your research and those in which it would be desirable to publish  Each edition of Journal Citations Report is published annually in the […]
Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday, 12th February 2009
To celebrate this anniversary there is a small display about Darwin, and several related books, in the display case at the entrance to the Stirling Campus Library. Â Through a combination of meticulous observation and innovative thinking, Darwin came up with an explanation for the incredible variety of living things: that evolution was driven by […]
JISC National E-Books Observatory
Last January, JISC conducted probably the largest e-book survey ever undertaken, with more than 23,000 responses from students and staff at UK universities.They are now distributing an exit questionnaire to see how things have moved forward in that time and how attitudes and behaviour towards e-books have changed. To give your views on provision of […]