We are finally ready to close down our cloud file storage on box. A two year project, somewhat extended by a global pandemic, is now coming to a close. Our box subscription will end on 31st July 2021. After 31st July, you will no longer have access to box. We are now in the final […]
Capital IQ – Alternative Login
If you experience difficulties accessing Capital IQ e.g. 504 Gateway Time-out, you may register for an alternative login as follows. Go to the Library Subject Guide for Company Information (navigate: Portal > LibrarySearch > Library Subject Guides > Company Information). Click the link “Register to use Capital IQ (Management School Students & Staff only)” Check […]
New Web of Science platform launched
The new Web of Science platform has been launched and is now available to Stirling students and staff. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary service for finding details of research articles and other publication types covering: sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It tracks around 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records. The […]
Journal Citation Reports 2021 release: now includes Arts & Humanities journals
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is a very useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors and other journal metrics. This release: 70% more content – partly due to inclusion of journal titles from the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) New metric […]
For staff: new Canvas Modules for Autumn 2021
One academic year passes….and we turn our thoughts to the next! The Autumn Term modules (2021/2) will be released in the week commencing 5th July. It is VERY important that you read the documentation linked below BEFORE you start to move your content from one module to the next. We have produced a step-by-step guide […]
Email, OneDrive and Office365 after graduation
Congratulations if you are graduating next week. Student emailYou may want to retain access to your student email for 2 years after you graduate. You need to opt-in to do this. Please check your portal for the opt-in banner. If you are continuing your studies by taking a Postgraduate taught course, please opt-in to retain […]
Teams fix for University managed devices
We know you have been having trouble with Teams, some staff have been required to re-install Teams every day to ensure they have the latest version. We now have a fix! From Friday 25 June at 5pm we will begin to implement this fix, and this will start to roll out across all University managed […]
LibrarySearch Goes Live
LibrarySearch has replaced the old Library Catalogue in Portal, to provide one-stop searching for books, e-books, dvds/videos, articles, digital media, and more. Sign-in (linked to your network account – no need for barcode, PIN etc.) to request click and collect (without need to type in all the book details – LibrarySearch does that bit for […]
Off-Campus SMTP mail service ends.
As part of our on-going programme of security enhancements, we have already made some changes to the way that email is accessed. Earlier in the year we began by blocking basic authentication. This meant that users were no longer able to access their University email via mail clients/applications that rely on basic authentication (i.e. clear-text username and password) over legacy (old) protocols such as […]
Microsoft Mastered!
Thank you for joining us for our month-long Microsoft skills event for staff – Mastering Microsoft in May. Watch one of our training sessions The attendance levels at our training sessions have been phenomenal with a staggering 391 attendees across 6 training sessions. Thank you to everyone who attended and asked some brilliant questions along […]