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This section provides guidance in using the information resources available to you at the University of Stirling. Please select an option from the left hand menu under 'Doing Research' or see below for more detail on the contents of each section.
- Find Books
Advice on the library catalogue, other library catalogues and e-books. - Find Journal Articles
Finding relevant journal articles for your subject area. - Articles Off-campus
Guides for accessing journal articles from different suppliers from off-campus - Find journals
Finding print and electronic journals in the Libraries, locating journals at other libraries. - Find theses
Finding theses by Stirling students and also theses from other institutions. - STORRE: Stirling Online Research Repository
STORRE holds a fulltext collection of our researchers' journal articles and other research publications. Plus our research theses in fulltext (mainly from 2006 onwards). Find out about submitting theses or submitting research publications. - Keeping up to date
Useful methods for ensuring you keep up to date in your subject of interest. - Deposit your thesis
Find out how to deposit your research thesis in STORRE: Stirling Online Research Repository. - Research guides by subject
In depth guides to researching within your subject area. Includes recommended indexing databases with guides, recommended web sites and other useful hints and tips. - Writing References
How to cite references. Information about the styles used at the University of Stirling. - Special Collections
Rare books and manuscripts held by the Library - Reference Shelf
A handy collection of online reference tools that are mostly freely available on the Web. Includes dictionaries, travel timetables, phone books, health, newspapers, etc. - Using other libraries
Arranging access to other university libraries. Also links to other useful library catalogues including university libraries, the national libraries and public / specialist libraries. - Information for Researchers
Useful Information Services information for researchers. - Undergraduate Dissertation
Advice on preparing for, researching and producing your dissertation - Creating an academic poster using Powerpoint
Full guide to creating an academic poster - Citation Analysis by Departments
Useful guides for Departments wishing to conduct a citation analysis of their research publications. - Online surveys
Information about how to build an online survey for your research purposes - Growing Knowledge exhibition benefits UK researchers
The way that people interact with never-seen-before tools, thought-provoking content and futuristic design in the new 'Growing Knowledge: the evolution of research' exhibition will provide clues to how research is changing and what researchers want to experience from the library of the future. Created to encourage engagement and debate, researchers will be able to physically interact with tools such as Sony’s 360-degree Autostereoscopic Display, a Microsoft Surface Table and HP/Haworth interactive pods as well as view all the content and tools online. Working with JISC and the Ciber Research Group, part of UCL, library users and exhibition visitors will be invited to leave their feedback with discussion groups for postgraduate students to explore some of the issues in more depth, for example: How do physical spaces support digital research? Do any of the tools help with some of the issues they encounter? There are also some thought-provoking videos available on topics such as "Good research"; "Scholarly Communications" and "How to search for and Analyse data".