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StirGate, from the University of Stirling Library, is a new way of searching for journal articles, web sites and other useful publications.  With one simple search you can browse up to 100 library resources.  These are the top 100 resources selected from our A-Z list of Online Resources and Subject Research Guides.

 

Using StirGate is far faster than searching each individual library resource separately, and it very quickly gives you an overview of information that is available for your topic.  It can also help you discover some new useful resources for your subject area.

 

 

Linking to StirGate

 

You can search StirGate from the Portal; from the Resources tab.  Or choose StirGate from the A-Z list of Online Resources.

 

 

How to Search

 

• Enter your search keywords, for example: learning and memory

 

• Select a Subject Category, for example: psychology

 

• Click on Search

 

After a few moments you’ll see the list of results.  This is a list of the resources searched and the number of records found in each.

 

Select a resource name, e.g. Web of Science, to browse its list of records.  Records will include details of journal articles, web sites, etc.

 

Select the View button to link to the record within the Library Resource.

 

Or select the Check fulltext at Stirling button – this will link you to WebBridge – from there you can link to the full text if it’s available or use the Search the Library Catalogue option to check if the library has a copy.

 

 

What do you think?

 

StirGate is on trial for this academic session – so we’d love to know what you think of it. Please post your comments below or send your thoughts in an email.

 

Clare Allan

c.m.allan@stir.ac.uk

Looking for journal articles on psychological topics? The Library provides access to PsycARTICLES, a full text database which contains over 130,000 articles from 58 journals published by the American Psychological Association. PsycARTICLES is a useful resource for anyone studying or researching psychology, behavioural sciences or mental health nursing. See our user guide to PsycARTICLES .

 

For a list of other useful psychology databases see our subject research guide

 

Sarah Kevill
Subject Librarian

Due to an essential upgrade, the portal will be down on Tuesday 28th October from 9.30am.  The upgrade should take no more than an hour, after which normal portal service will be resumed.

 

During the portal downtime, the following services will be accessible directly:

 

WebCT: http://webct.stir.ac.uk
Library catalogue: http://libcat.stir.ac.uk
Staff webmail: https://mail.stir.ac.uk
Student email: https://wwwmail.students.stir.ac.uk

 

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Information Centre
infocentre@stir.ac.uk
01786 467250

British Summer Time ends this weekend, so don’t forget to change your clocks.  You should put your clocks back one hour on Saturday night – 2am BST on Sunday morning will become 1am GMT.

 

The Library will open on Sunday morning at 9am GMT.

 

You can find out more about why we use British Summer Time on the National Maritime Museum’s website.

 

Kirsty Thomson

The latest upgrade to Web of Science included a number of changes. Major changes include:

 

• ISI Proceedings – Science (for scientific and technical conference papers) has been renamed “Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science”
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science is now integrated into the Web of Science search along with the other Citation Indexes: Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
• You can choose to search each Citation Index individually, or in any combination, from the foot of the Web of Science search screen
• Author Cited References from the Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes are now included in Web of Science (from 1999 onwards). This means the Times Cited counts for many papers will display sudden increases.
• A new scientifc web search engine “Scientific WebPlus” has been integrated into Web of Science. Link to WebPlus results from Web of Science result screens – using the Scientific WebPlus link at the top right of the screen.

 

For more information see:

 

• a complete list of the enhancements
• powerpoint demo

 

Clare Allan
c.m.allan@stir.ac.uk

Mid semester break is from Monday 27 October – Friday 31 October inclusive. 

 

The library will be open Monday-Friday 9-7 and 9-4 on the weekend. 

 

The Information Centre will be open:

•  Mon-Friday 9-7 for IT enquiries and 11-4 for Library enquiries;
•  Saturday and Sunday 11-4

CaseCheck is a current awareness service about Scots law. It covers a wide range of legal topics, including criminal law, family law, mental health law, and taxation. The website is frequently updated with case summaries and articles, which are often written by legal professionals.  You can sign up for a weekly email about recent court decisions and other developments such as new bills, reports and consultations. RSS feeds are also available.

 

CaseCheck will be of interest to anyone studying or researching the law in Scotland.  Access to the website is free, but you will need to register (at no charge) to use the advanced search features, to comment on posts, and to receive email updates.

 

Kirsty Thomson

Subject Librarian