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New student printers
Welcome back! During August the printers on campus have been replaced with shiny new Ricoh printers. Locations of the new printers Library level 2: 2 machines (these printers print 55 pages per minute – super speedy) Library level 3: 2 machines Library level 4: 2 machines Library level 2 Short Loan: 1 machine Library Study […]
Introducing our new Maker Space
The Library Maker Space is a relatively new service which started in 2017-2018. The Maker Space is located on Level 2 of the Library to the right of the entrance to the main stairwell. At time of writing we have 2 Robox printers, an Ultimaker 3, an Ultimaker 2+ and 3D scanning facilities. We […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository from June to August #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during June, July and August. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: The role of parasites in the invasion ecology of Harmonia axyridis. By Katharine Berry http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27336 Bearing Witness to an Era: Contemporary Nigerian Fiction […]
Module opening dates for autumn semester 2018
Academic modules will be available in Canvas from Mon 3 September 2018*. Canvas can be accessed from your portal home page, using the link on the left hand side of the portal home page. You can also download the free Canvas app. *notes you must be fully enrolled to access your academic Canvas modules. For first years, […]
Introduction to Canvas
We are running two Introduction to Canvas sessions for staff (broadly aimed at new staff who have not engaged with the system before): Thursday, 30th August – 11am till 12.30pm – Library Training Room B (4th Floor, Library) Tuesday, 4th September – 10am till 11.30am – Library Training Room B (4th Floor, Library) To book […]
Staff printer roll out
The new staff printers will be starting to roll out to University departments from 28th August 2018. The new staff queues will automatically add to your staff PC and you will be able to begin using these when your new Ricoh MFD has been installed. Up until that point, the original print queues will still […]
Unpaywall for open research: plans for Scopus integration
Described as a “ground-breaking development” towards achieving a true open research infrastructure, Unpaywall is a database listing almost 20 million freely available scholarly articles. This free service locates open-access articles and presents paywalled papers that have been legally archived and are freely available on other websites to users who might otherwise have hit a paywalled […]
Student printers and Lab computers – temporary queues
Today and into next week the way you print to a student printer will change. There will be a transition period where we will be operating both the old (Konica Minolta) printers and the new (Ricoh) printers. We will label the printers to let you know which is which. The KM printers will remain on […]
The printers are changing – Staff training opportunity
Staff may be aware that there has been a review of all Multi-functional devices (MFD’s) located across the campus. The review has highlighted that some devices were being under-utilised and therefore, to reduce costs and to maximise the efficiency of each appliance a number of changes will be introduced over the coming weeks. Following a tender process, […]