The Stirling Campus Library has bought 50 brand new social work books in the last year. A list of these books is available here
users and will provide the network infrastructure on which the University’s new telephone system will be based. Although the work is taking place only on Stirling Campus, Highland and Western Isles users will be affected for one brief period towards the end
of this first phase of the work.
9th March and Friday 19th March, inclusive. The second periods of downtime will be later in the year and have not yet been scheduled.
than one day’s work.
the work and need not be powered down.
- any wireless hubs in that geographic area
- those with network sockets with numbers ending with “W”
- rooms 3B114 and 4W6
The Scottish Educational Review journal is now available in electronic format. Search the library catalogue for Scottish Educational Review or go to http://www.scotedreview.org.uk/content.php Full text articles are available from 1997 onwards, with abstracts to articles from last two most recent issues also available. If you need the full text from the most recent issues the library has these in paper format.
The latest edition (number 80, February 2010) of the Information Services newsletter, ISSUE, is now available on the IS web site at:
http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/aboutis/issue.php
Printed copies will be available later this week.
Steve Boulton
ISSUE Editor
Academic Liaison and Development
Information Services
(01786) 466883
steven.boulton@stir.ac.uk
Westlaw has recently started to include legislation that is not yet in force. If you are reading legislation in Westlaw you should pay close attention to the status information displayed at the top of every legislation part - this will tell you if you are looking at prospective law (i.e., law that is not yet in force).
Westlaw is still the only consolidated source of Scottish legislation and you should continue to use Westlaw to find current versions of legislation. To search for current law:
- log into the portal, go to the A-Z list of Online Resources, and click on Westlaw
- go to the legislation tab
- click on advanced search
- tick the “law in force” box (under “select all versions including”).
If you want to include prospective law in your search, tick the “prospective law” box.
Lots more information about these changes, including information about the new icons Westlaw uses to show legislation status can be found on the Westlaw What’s New page.
Subject Librarian
To help students with their dissertations this semester, a new web site has been set up. Topics covered include: finding and obtaining information for dissertation research, writing up the dissertation document and the final printing of the dissertation. The web site can be found at:
http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/dissertation/index.php
Keep up to date with the latest news from Information Services by following us on Twitter, we are isstirling. Our most recent updates will appear on the IS homepage and we will be using Twitter to keep you informed about the new library project, IT issues, new electronic resources and much more.
Sarah Kevill
Subject Librarian
If you have ever lost track of a useful webpage or forgotten how you found that perfect site, a tool that bookmarks your web links might be what you need.
Delicious is a social bookmarking site, which means you create an account (it is free to register with Delicious) where you can list, share and organise your web links or bookmarks. You can create your own tags and list different sets of links by the tags you give them, so you could list all of your links for Maths separately from your links for Education, for example. Have a look at our Subject Research Guides and you can see we have used Delicious to generate and update our list of links for each subject. There are of course many other social bookmarking sites such as BookmarkTracker and Google Bookmarks which have similar options and functions.
Adding links is very simple. You can download a Delicious button ad-on for your web browser so you can bookmark links with a single mouse-click. Make the lists of links you create relevant and specific to you by adding your own tags and descriptions. And, if you prefer to have a collection of bookmarks that are not public, simply choose the ‘Mark as Private’ option.
To investigate the many other options available go to the Help section on the Delicious site.
Elizabeth Andrews
Subject Librarian
Following problems with access yesterday, ScienceDirect is again available through the A-Z list of online resources.
Elizabeth Andrews
Subject Librarian
Following maintenance at the weekend, ScienceDirect is not yet available. For more information, please contact the Information Centre: infocentre@stir.ac.uk or the Library Help Desk: library@stir.ac.uk.
Elizabeth Andrews
Subject Librarian