As we all prepare to rest over the winter break, Information Services would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of good practices for staying cyber secure over the holidays. Criminals are taking advantage of recent events to craft convincing emails, texts and phone calls to trick you into giving up your personal information. […]

Welcome to Library and IT at Stirling
Information Services invites you to join us for some fantastic events to help you hit the ground running when it comes to the Library and IT at the University of Stirling. What’s on… Essential Student Guide to Library and IT Services Learn all about the Library and IT services at Stirling including how to install […]

Stirling to join Company of Biologists Publishing Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
From 1st January Stirling will be joining the one-year Company of Biologists ”Read and Publish” Agreement. This means in return for a one-off payment by the Library, Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in Company of Biologists three hybrid journals: Development Journal of Cell Science Journal of Experimental Biology Open access publication is […]

Stirling to join Public Library of Science Community Action Publishing: free Open Access publishing
From 1st January Stirling will be joining the three-year ‘Public Library of Science’ JISC negotiated Community Action Publishing Agreement. The Agreement enables free uncapped open access publishing for our authors in two highly selective journals: PLOS Biology PLOS Medicine Alongside our previous announcement about joining the PLOS Flat Tier Agreement, this now means Stirling authors […]

Library Christmas opening hours.
As a number of students will be remaining on campus over the forthcoming vacation period, Information Services will be keeping the library service open over the festive period. The library will be available for study and the ‘click and collect’ service will be in operation for print materials. Please note that study spaces should be […]

What have you done 5898 times in the last 3 months?
Since we launched our brand new University of Stirling app in September 2020 it has been downloaded a whopping 5898 times. The app provides easy access to our most popular services and resources in one place, when you’re on the go, anytime, anywhere. What features of the app are you using? The top three most […]

Preview of new Web of Science now available
The Library now has access to the preview of the new interface for the Web of Science platform. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary service for finding details of research articles and other publication types, covering: Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. When you login to Web of Science there’s a purple button in the […]

Stirling to join PLOS agreement: for free Open Access publishing
Stirling will be joining the three-year ‘Public Library of Science’ JISC negotiated Agreement enabling free uncapped open access publishing for our authors in five key journals: PLOS Computational Biology PLOS Genetics PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLOS ONE PLOS Pathogens Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a non-profit open access publisher, their journals comply with funder […]

Office 365 – Click to Run
Install Office 365 Click to Run on your University of Stirling staff desktop/laptop now! The Click to Run versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have lots of new features and well as some fantastic accessibility tools. We are starting to roll out Office 365 Click to Run (C2R) to university staff desktops/laptops. You can control […]
More JSTOR for longer!
Free expanded access to JSTOR extended to June 2021 In March 2020 JSTOR made its archives available free online to academic institutions to facilitate online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the JSTOR journal archive collections which we subscribe to, we have also enjoyed free access to a wealth of other […]