Information Services invites you to join us for a week of 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, student email, […]
Introducing: the British Library Shared Research Repository
The British Library is hosting a new online repository for research produced by its staff, as well as staff of its partner organisations: the British Museum, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), National Museums Scotland, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Tate. It’s particularly useful for research on Heritage, Archaeology, History and Art. It’s easy to search […]
Problems Exporting to RefWorks
There is a problem exporting to RefWorks from databases supplied by EBSCO and Ovid. RefWorks are aware of this issue and are working to fix it. Databases affected include: Business Source, Cinahl, Historical Abstracts, Medline, Philosophers Index, Psycarticles, Psycinfo and SPORTDiscus. An alternative method in the meantime is to export a RIS file and separately […]
Grades in Canvas
The Grades tool in Canvas has been upgraded for the new Semester. All of the functionality of the existing Grades tool is retained and some new features have been added including: a ‘View’ menu that includes multiple options to sort and filter assignments including by group, section, unit and grading period. the assignment status (Late, […]
EndNote for Your Own Computer
The long awaited EndNote installation for personal devices is now available for Windows machines. See further guidance at https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/endnote/personal and request your download via UniDesk (Portal > UniDesk > IT >Software/Apps for your laptop). Additionally, the upgrade to EndNote X9.2 for University machines is available from the Software Center. X9.2 fixes an annoying bug with […]
Library and IT services during the University holidays
While many of you travel away from Stirling during the vacation period, we know that some of you choose to stay on or near campus over the Christmas period. A list of the services available from the University Library is outlined below. The Library will be operating the following opening hours during the Christmas period. […]
RefWorks Unavailable
RefWorks is temporarily unavailable currently due to a technical fault. RefWorks are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. (12/12/19)
Top Ten Thesis downloads in November #StirTopTenTheses
During October 1,340 theses in our research repository, STORRE, were downloaded a total of 20,559 times. The top ten downloaded theses were: 1. Assessment practices and their impact on home economics education in Ireland. By McSweeney, Kathryn http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21804 Downloads: 1,228 2. Towards A Novel Unified Framework for Developing Formal, Network and Validated Agent-Based Simulation Models of […]
Top ten papers from our Research Repository in November #StirTopTenPapers
During November there were 54,755 downloads from our University repository, STORRE, covering 6,017 research publications. The top ten downloaded items were: 1. Sex differences in misperceptions of sexual interest can be explained by men projecting their own interest onto women. By Lee, Anthony J; Sidari, Morgan J; Murphy, Sean C; Sherlock, James M; Zietsch, Brendan P […]
Jolabokaflod (Christmas Book flood)
In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents, then you spend the rest of the night in bed reading them and eating chocolate. The tradition is part of a season called Jolabokaflod, or ‘The Christmas Book Flood’, because Iceland, which publishes more books per capita than any other country, sells most of its books […]