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 […]
Stirling Connect (social networking site) goes live
Today a new service at the University launches: Stirling Connect. Stirling Connect is a social networking site for staff and students at the University. In Stirling connect you can have your own blog, share photos, share bookmarks, create groups (public and private), have a wiki, and make friends. Â Groups are a great way to […]
New and updated internet searching tutorials
Intute, the subject gateway to quality websites, has recently launched several new internet searching tutorials. These freely available tutorials guide you through the process of online research to help you locate the best of the web for your subject. Â There are new tutorials for midwifery, computer science, environment and American studies and updated tutorials […]
PhilPapers – new resource for finding online research in philosophy
PhilPapers is an index to online academic journal articles and book chapters about philosophy. It contains references from approximately 200 philosophy journals and monitors the websites of leading philosophers. PhilPapers is freely available, but if you register for an account you can receive RSS feeds of new materials in topics of interest.  See more online […]