VADS – the Visual Arts Data Service – has recently been relaunched. It provides access to over 100,000 images which are copyright cleared and free for use in higher and further education in the UK. The collections are diverse and include images of African and Asian art, posters from war-time Britain and public monuments and […]
Stirling Campus Library Vacation Opening Hours and Loan periods
For the last week of semester and vacation opening hours please see the Opening Hours page. Long Loans – Items issued from Friday 9 May 2008 are due for return by Friday 19 September 2008. POP Loans – Remain weekly loans. RBR books and photocopies - Will change to weekly loans from Friday 30 May 2008. Short Loans […]
BIOSIS Previews now extended – searching from 1926 onwards now available
As part of the Library’s Strategic Development Fund we have purchased backfiles to the BIOSIS Previews database, which will allow you to search right back to 1926 online rather than using the paper copy. BIOSIS Previews is an index for finding journal articles, and other types of publications; it is the most comprehensive source for […]
Changes to staff email relating to SPAM
Information Services seeks your feedback during a pilot of a system that will reduce the amount of effort you have to put into managing SPAM in your email. We especially want your input if you are one of the people who is concerned that important messages may be lost because they are incorrectly tagged as […]
Access to the Financial Times on LexisNexis Business and News (3rd April 2008).
New guide to how to search the FT online. The Financial Times have made some significant changes to their licence, which determines how articles from the newspaper can be searched. It will no longer appear on the drop down box of sources when using LexisNexis Business and News. A guide is available which shows how […]
Staff IT Courses April – Stirling Campus
Please find below details of the Staff IT courses which start the second week of April (Mon 7th). These sessions are available to all staff and research postgraduate students. The full course schedule along with descriptions is available at: http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/help/training/current.php Booking is now done online via webct:https://webct.stir.ac.uk/webct/logon/2151425001. An online guide which describes how to sign […]