We are currently operating on our vacation hours. This week and next the library will be open 8am-8pm Monday to Thursday and 8am-5pm and 10-5 at weekends. Week beginning 24 January we return to our semester opening hours, 8am-8pm Monday to Friday and 10am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday. During our opening hours, staff will be […]
Changes to how you access email.
As part of our on-going programme of security enhancements, we have already made some changes to the way that email is accessed in order to remove less secure methods of accessing your university email account that do not enforce MFA (multi factor authentication). Microsoft is increasing the security of Office 365 which will now result […]
Learning and Teaching Support for Spring 2022
Information Services are offering a series of bookable events to support learning and teaching in Spring 2022. Book a support assistant for the start of your class! IS have a number of IT Assistants aka Wizards available to help you get your class kicked off. If you feel it would be helpful to have a Wizard […]
Staying cybersafe over the holiday period.
From banking to shopping, and streaming to social media, people are spending more time than ever online. This means more opportunities for hackers to carry out cyber attacks. They often do this by targeting people and businesses using: email and website scams malware – software that can damage your device or let a hacker in […]
MIT Press Open Access Monographs
The Library is supporting an initiative from publisher MIT Press to enable the open access publishing of new research monographs. This means that we will have open access to new scholarly monographs published by MIT Press in 2022 (approximately 90 titles). We also now have access to the backlist from this publisher (approximately 2600 titles). […]
UoS Multimedia Wi-Fi – Unsupported Devices
Before you write your letter to Santa you may want to read this post to find out if your wish list item are likely to connect to Wi-Fi on Campus. Several popular multimedia devices cannot work on an enterprise Wi-Fi networks such as our UoS Multimedia. These include (but are not restricted to) the following: […]
HS Talks – Multimedia Content to Inspire and Support Learning
See HS Talks for over 6000 multimedia lectures, expert interviews and case studies to enrich your learning. Teaching staff may embed clips or full lectures in Canvas modules and provide links from reading lists. Login to Portal and access HS Talks directly or from the A-Z Online Resources http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/az or your Library Subject Guide. Subjects include: Business; Management, Leadership and Organisation; Marketing and […]
Introducing Norman! 24/7 Library and IT Support
We are really happy to announce that from December 1st we are entering into a partnership with Norman Managed Services. With this partnership we will be able to offer Library and IT enquiries 24/7 via LiveChat and email. Norman supports more than 1 million service users globally, for over 45 higher education and commercial partners. […]
Important Write-N-Cite (WNC) upgrade – please take action now
If you use RefWorks and the Write-N-Cite (WNC) add-in writing tool in Word, please upgrade to the most recent version of WNC (4.6.241) as soon as possible. Older versions of WNC will cease to work at the end of November. Instructions for upgrading and also some important troubleshooting guidance Contact the Library if you have […]
Library Festive opening hours
With the 2021/22 academic year well underway, and the festive break just around the corner, here are our opening hours. There will still be access to study spaces during times when the library is closed in the Study Zone, Atrium, and the new Campus Central. You will be able to access Lab computers and printers […]