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Intute, the subject gateway to quality websites, has recently launched several new internet searching tutorials. These freely available tutorials guide you through the process of online research to help you locate the best of the web for your subject.

 

There are new tutorials for midwifery, computer science, environment and American studies and updated tutorials for business studies, education, social work, history, psychology, law and languages.

 

If you’d like to improve your searching skills, you may also like to try our Surviving your Essay online tutorial.

 

Sarah Kevill, Subject Librarian

PhilPapers is an index to online academic journal articles and book chapters about philosophy. It contains references from approximately 200 philosophy journals and monitors the websites of leading philosophers. PhilPapers is freely available, but if you register for an account you can receive RSS feeds of new materials in topics of interest.

 

See more online resources for philosophy at http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/research/guides/phil.php

 

 

Sarah Kevill

Subject Librarian

Stirling University Library has been invited to be involved in the Digi-Islam project.  This is a JISC funded project and the first strand aims to digitise and make available one thousand UK PhD theses from the subject area of Islamic Studies.

 

A review was conducted using Index to Theses of the UK and Ireland database which pulled together all the recent theses on this subject from 1997 onwards.  Stirling has been asked to contribute four theses to the project.

 

• Self-recruiting species (SRS) in aquaculture: their role in rural livelihoods in two areas of Bangladesh,  A. T. M. Faruk-UL-Islam, 2007

 

• Gender and management: factors affecting career and advancement of women in the Federal Civil Service of Pakistan, Nasira Jabeen, 1999

 

• Motivation of multinational work force in QGPC in Qatar, Hany Mahmoud El-Hifnawi, 1998

 

• Culture and risk: perception and acceptability of risk of Riba in banking among teachers in Bahrain, Nabeel  Mohammed Shams, 1996            

 

 

The digitised theses will be available on the EThOS database on Open Access, just like the other e-theses on EThOS. There will be a flag labelling them as part of the Dig-Islam project and in the future they may also be accessed via a National Gateway to Islamic Studies.

 

In June 2007, the Government designated Islamic studies a strategically important subject, and invited HEFCE to develop a programme of work. As part of this, the JISC commissioned a report from the University of Exeter, Review of User Requirements for Digitised Resources in Islamic Studies, which made various recommendations as to how JISC could improve digital infrastructure for researchers and teachers in Islamic Studies.  This work is a result of these recommendations.  The second strand will be the digitisation of relevant catalogues and manuscripts.

 

Clare Allan

Library Liaison and Training