As last semester, the Library will have extended opening hours for the exam period. They will commence Monday 16th November and continue until the night before the last exam, which on the draft schedule will mean Sunday 20th December.  Both the Interim Library and the Study Zone will open until 2am every morning and […]
Alcohol more dangerous than Ecstasy?
If you want to read what Prof David Nutt (ex government advisor on drug policy) actually thinks about drugs and the harm they cause, then you can read his speech.  “Estimating drug harms a risky business?â€Â Eve Saville Lecture July 2009 http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus1714/Estimating_drug_harms.pdf  This comes via the Crime and Justice Students website.  Valerie Wells […]
IS open user forum – Thursday 3rd December
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Thursday 3 December at 2.00pm, room still to be confirmed, Stirling Campus.  All are welcome. IT and Library representatives in Academic and Administrative Departments and Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend.  The agenda will include Update on Library Transformation Project, IS […]
Armistice Day – finding online and multimedia resources about the First World War
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 […]