Along with other universities, we are currently experiencing problems with access to some of our electronic books, specifically those from our supplier called Dawson’s Books. Dawson’s Books are aware of these problems and Library staff are in contact with the company about this issue. There is currently no timescale available for when this issue will be resolved. […]
Altmetric Profile for any ORCID
Within the new version 2 of our Altmetric for Institutions you can now search by ORCID iD. Increasingly authors are managing their publication lists using ORCID profiles. Now in Altmetric, you can enter any ORCID iD in the main search bar to find the associated Altmetric data for research outputs connected to that ORCID. Make […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Research Postgraduates who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Strong is the New Slim: A Study of the Body and Gender Amongst Female Free Weights Users. By Robyn Spice http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24355 What is, and what might be, learned […]
Altmetric – Stirling latest data refresh complete
Altmetric for Institutions at Stirling is a service that monitors and reports on the attention research papers are receiving on the web. Four times a year Stirling sends publication details from our Research Management System (RMS), STORRE and DataSTORRE to Altmetric so they can refresh the data they hold about us. Altmetric then track […]
TurnitinUK Downtime for Maintenance – Saturday 5th November
We have been notified by TurnitinUK that due to planned maintenance the Turnitin service will be unavailable from 1-6pm on Saturday 5th November. Please be aware that no submissions or grading will be possible through this service during this time. We therefore advise that submission deadlines are set outside of this maintenance window. For further information […]
Open research practices
The results of a survey of Wellcome researchers to find out what they think about open research, how they practice it, and some of the barriers they face have just been published in a report. This work was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and […]
Endnote training for researchers – sign up now
EndNote is our reference management software for researchers. We have an EndNote Fundamentals class coming up: 16th November 11.00 – 12.30 or 7th December 11.30 – 1.00 Location: Training Room 1 on Level 4 of the Stirling Campus Library. The class will give an introduction to the most commonly used EndNote […]
Be more squirrel.
From Monday 31st October we are running a campaign to remind you to bring your ID card to the Library. This is needed for the entry gates as well as printing and taking your books out. Normally the library receptionists will note your student number and open the gates manually for you. However this takes up […]
Open Access: Publisher memberships
Publisher memberships The University currently provides a fund of £250k to spend on Open Access: publisher memberships, APC and publication costs. To apply to the APC fund you need to fulfil eligibility criteria – see here for further information and the application form. Many publishers now offer discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs), so […]
EndNote Version 7.7 now available
The latest version of our reference management software Endnote is now available for University computers. You can download version 7.7 from Run Advertised Programs (before you start close Word and Outlook email): If you have previously downloaded version 7.5, then within Run Advertised Programs select: ‘EndNote X7.7 Update – Update’ If you have not downloaded […]