Academic modules will be available in Canvas from Mon 3 September 2018*. Canvas can be accessed from your portal home page, using the link on the left hand side of the portal home page. You can also download the free Canvas app. *notes you must be fully enrolled to access your academic Canvas modules. For first years, […]
Introduction to Canvas
We are running two Introduction to Canvas sessions for staff (broadly aimed at new staff who have not engaged with the system before): Thursday, 30th August – 11am till 12.30pm – Library Training Room B (4th Floor, Library) Tuesday, 4th September – 10am till 11.30am – Library Training Room B (4th Floor, Library) To book […]
Staff printer roll out
The new staff printers will be starting to roll out to University departments from 28th August 2018. The new staff queues will automatically add to your staff PC and you will be able to begin using these when your new Ricoh MFD has been installed. Up until that point, the original print queues will still […]
Unpaywall for open research: plans for Scopus integration
Described as a “ground-breaking development” towards achieving a true open research infrastructure, Unpaywall is a database listing almost 20 million freely available scholarly articles. This free service locates open-access articles and presents paywalled papers that have been legally archived and are freely available on other websites to users who might otherwise have hit a paywalled […]
Student printers and Lab computers – temporary queues
Today and into next week the way you print to a student printer will change. There will be a transition period where we will be operating both the old (Konica Minolta) printers and the new (Ricoh) printers. We will label the printers to let you know which is which. The KM printers will remain on […]
The printers are changing – Staff training opportunity
Staff may be aware that there has been a review of all Multi-functional devices (MFD’s) located across the campus. The review has highlighted that some devices were being under-utilised and therefore, to reduce costs and to maximise the efficiency of each appliance a number of changes will be introduced over the coming weeks. Following a tender process, […]
Box of Broadcasts – TV and radio programmes for education
The Library subscribes to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), which is an on-demand TV and radio recording service. We can record from over 62 free-to-air channels, and staff and students can also access the online archive of over 2 million broadcasts going back to the 1990s. What is BoB useful for? BoB is useful for teaching […]
Listen Again is changing – training in the new system
From Autumn semester 2018 we are replacing the software behind the Listen Again lecture recording service with a new video platform, Panopto. We have arranged open training sessions on how to record and publish lectures as follows: • Friday 24th August, 10-11am – Cottrell B3 • Wednesday 29th August, 2-3pm, Cottrell B3 • Friday 31st […]
Research Bites: last two sessions of summer 2018
There is still time to sign up for the last two sessions of our 2018 Research Bites Programme On 29 August in the Postgraduate Study Zone between 12.30 and 1.30pm , on Level 3 of the Library, Kate Howie will be talking about “Presenting Statistical Analysis for Publication” . When conducting quantitative research researchers should be […]
Research Bite next Wednesday: Vitae RDF and Lynda.com
Due to low numbers this event has had to be CANCELLED Sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Lynda22818 22 August 12.30 – 1.30 in Training Room 1, Level 4 of the Library. All staff and students at the University of Stirling have access to lynda.com, an online resource of training videos and tutorials for personal and professional development. Whether […]