As part of our ongoing commitment to achieving Cyber Essentials Accreditation, we now turn our attention to network passwords. In order to comply with Cyber essentials, we need to strengthen our password policy. Our current security settings require a minimum of six characters and staff must change their password once a year. It is not […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in March #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during March. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Books and their Borrowers at the Library of Innerpeffray c. 1680-1855. By Jill Dye http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28881 The Literature of Madness: a critical study of the madhouse in Gothic fiction. By […]
Top Ten Thesis downloads in March #StirTopTenTheses
During March 1,279 theses in our research repository STORRE were downloaded a total of 24,666 times. The top ten downloaded theses were: Towards A Novel Unified Framework for Developing Formal, Network and Validated Agent-Based Simulation Models of Complex Adaptive Systems. By Niazi, Muaz A K http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3365 Downloads: 1,956 Scholarly publishing in Africa: a case study […]
Top ten papers from our Research Repository in March #StirTopTenPapers
During March there were 58, 255 downloads from our University repository, STORRE, covering 5,225 publications. The top ten downloaded items were: The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: An Overview. By Cruft, Rowan; Liao, S Matthew; Renzo, Massimo http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23324 Downloads: 488 A Systematic Review of the Impact of Summative Assessment and Tests on Students’ Motivation for […]
Library opening hours
During the Easter Weekend (19th – 22nd April) the Library will be open all weekend. Easter falls within our extended 24/7 opening hours so we don’t actually close at all. 🙂 However our service desks are working different hours for this holiday weekend. Library Lending desk hours Good Friday 8:30 – 5:00 Easter Saturday 10:00 […]
ScotlandIS and Scottish Government launch Cyber Scotland Week
Cyber Scotland Week, a joint initiative between ScotlandIS and the Scottish Government, will take place between 22-28 April 2019. A first of its kind for cyber in Scotland, Cyber Scotland Week draws together events across Scotland to showcase the innovation taking place across the sector, while raising awareness of good cyber resilience practice and promoting […]
Blue button phishing attack resurfaces
Earlier this week, variants of the blue button phishing email scam were circulated and unfortunately a number of accounts have been compromised as a result. Subsequently, user details including username and password were harvested. In this instance the attacker did not use the harvested details until this afternoon, when it emerged that a number of […]
Help with Chicago Referencing Style
Are you studying History, English or Religion? Do you need help with referencing in the Chicago style? We have a new online resource which might help – the Chicago Manual of Style. Part III of this publication has information on Source Citations and contains detailed information about citing different resource types. Wondering how to cite […]
9 Things to do before you graduate
Congratulations, you made it! Whether you have completed your Undergraduate, Postgraduate taught or Postgraduate Research qualification, there are some tasks you may want to do before your graduation date. At the end of your studies, your access to the University network and services will cease. There are, however, some services that we can offer you […]
The library will be open 24/7 for exam study
From Monday 1st of April until Friday 10th May the library will be open 24/7 to give students a chance to study for the upcoming exams. For this period, level three of the Library will be changed to silent study space. Level 4 will remain as silent study space. During this period, visitors may be […]