Export to RefWorks Problem

The export to RefWorks function currently is experiencing difficulties and in many instances fails. There is a higher chance of success if you login to RefWorks before exporting references from a database e.g. from Stirgate, but this does not always work. This problem is affecting all UK universities and RefWorks are working on a fix.

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New look for House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

The new semester is almost here, and for anyone researching or studying British political or parliamentary history, the new year brings a new look for the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP).   HCPP is a major resource covering all aspects of British social, economic and political history from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Providing electronic access to Bills, […]

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STORRE Downloads: the year’s top 10

It’s getting to that time of year for looking back and reviewing how we’ve done. I’ve been looking at STORRE full-text file downloads since this time last year.   Data from the IRUS-UK statistics portal that we joined during 2014   There’s obviously a seasonal pattern that follows the academic year. But it’s interesting to see that […]

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Research data@Stirling

As announced earlier this week, DataSTORRE has been launched.  DataSTORRE is an online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. The first researcher at Stirling to deposit data is Peter Matthews, a lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology.  His deposit is a video of a poetry reading at Wester […]

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New Outlook feature – online archives

As part of the New technologies Project, Information Services is introducing an online archive service for email which will provide up to 100GB of archive storage for each member of staff. This enhancement will provide an improved service for archiving your Outlook content, and deliver the ability to access your archived information from any location […]

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DataSTORRE has arrived!

  DataSTORRE is an online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Stirling. University of Stirling researchers who have produced research data associated with an existing or forthcoming publication, or which has potential use for other researchers, are invited to upload their dataset for sharing and safekeeping. A persistent identifier and […]

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