News archive for "Bibl"

2024-12-11
We now have institutional early access to JSTOR’s interactive research tool. This tool is described by JSTOR as "employs AI and other technologies to empower people to deepen and expand their research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus". To use the tool you will need to login/create a personal account. The tool helps you to assess content relevance, deepen your research and uses natural, conversational language.
2024-10-07

Scopus AI trial access

News » 2024-10-07
Scopus, a database containing bibliographic records and citation data, has recently launched an AI functionality in its service. The trial period has now ended, and evaluation is in progress. Scopus AI is an add-on that is not included in the regular offering of the database, but KAU now has access to it on a trial basis for four weeks (October 7th-November 6th , 2024).
2024-09-10
The University Library, offering support and resources in various parts of the research process, will continue the seminar series "Science skills to go" for researchers and doctoral students during the autumn semester, with a series of workshops. The aim of the series is to highlight topics that may be important for you as a researcher to know and find a concept that does not take too much time from your research.
2024-09-03
During September, the library has a trial period for the AI tool Research Assistant available in the Web of Science database. Read more about the tool Log in to Web of Science The tool is developed by Clarivate, and the hope is that it will make it easier for researchers to find relevant documents in the database by allowing them to ask questions in their own language, get help finding relevant journals, generate visualizations and subject maps, etc.
2019-10-15
The library now subscribes to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. The library now subscribes to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. It is a digital encyclopedia that contains over 500 peer-reviewed articles with research / area overviews in all aspects of communication.
2019-04-01
The university library have a 3 month trial period of journals from The Royal Society During the trial it is possible to access the 10 journals in Royal Society Package S: Philosophical Transactions A Philosophical Transactions B Proceedings A Proceedings B Biology Letters Journal of Royal Society Interface Interface Focus Notes and Records Open Biology (Open access) Royal Society Open Science (Open access) Search journals
2018-11-21
As of July 2018, Swedish universities have limited access to journals from Elsevier, one of the world’s largest scientific publishers. However, employees at Karlstad University can still access new articles through the interlibrary lending service, ”Get it now”. Magazines published by Elsevier between January 1, 1995 and June 30, 2018 are still available through the usual channels.
2018-09-19

BrowZine now available

News » 2018-09-19
The library now subscribes to BrowZine - a tool for browsing and reading the library´s electronic journals. Do you want an easier way to access scholarly e-journals? Check out BrowZine—a Web-based service and app for Apple or Android devices that helps you browse through scholarly e-journals. Read more about BrowZine
2018-05-17
Swedish universities, including Karlstad University, have decided to terminate the agreement with Elsevier, one of the world's largest scientific publishers. The reason is that the parties did not agree on open access Elsevier is one of the world's largest scientific publishers. In 2017, Swedish universities paid approximately 120 million SEK for subscriptions to electronic journals to the publisher, of which Karlstad University accounted for almost 1.2 million SEK.
2017-11-13
This week we will start a relocation project. Books that currently are placed in numerical order (2015: 344), will be relabelled and placed by subject. The books will be marked with a subject code and a sequence number, for example V 2011: 1 or Im 2017:20. This will make it easier both to find books by subject, but also to find newly acquired books. The relocation of the books are expected to be completed by autumn semester 2018.
2017-10-04
(Updated 2017-12-11)After the trial period during October/November the library has now signed a subscription agreement with HeinOnline. Access is already enabled. HeinOnline is a comprehensive collection of law journals, US and UK law and case law and more. Please send your feedback to: Berit Hjort Search Hein Online
2017-10-02
Uppdated 2017-12-11 After the trial period the Library decided to buy access to Sage Research Methods Video Collection. During October and November the library has a trial period on Sage Research Methods video collection. SAGE Research Methods Video contains 480 videos, including tutorials, case study videos, expert interviews, and more, covering the entire research methods and statistics curriculum. Search SRM Videos
2017-05-17

The language café

News » 2017-05-17
The language café at the university library will continue during the spring semester 2018. The language café will take place every tuesday between 4 pm - 6 pm. The time and place are the same but now students are in charge of the café. The Language Café is aimed for anyone who wants to improve there spoken Swedish, but you need to be able to speak and understand some Swedish to participate.
2017-04-07
Until 8 July the library have a trial period of e-resources from De Gruyter. During the test period we have limited access to journals, e-books and databases in 28 subject areas. Do a search, or choose a subject. Then it is possible to limit the result to "Accessible content". Search De Gruyter Online For more information, contact Ulrika Hargefors.
2017-01-20
All course-reference books and reserved books now need to be borrowed before taking them out of the room. This applies to all reserved books and course-reference books that are placed in room 1 E 225. Borrow the books in the selfcheck machine by scanning your Kau-card, or by entering your Swedish ID number/library card number, and your pin code. When you have finished reading the course-reference book please return it in the self-return machine.
2017-01-18

Wordfinder cancelled

News » 2017-01-18
From 1 January 2017 the library no longer subscribes to Wordfinder. Instead you can find dictionarys in many languages through Nationalencyklopedien (NE). Go to the library startpage and click on Encyclopedias, then choose "Norstedts ordböcker via NE" in the menu. On the NE page, choose "Tjänster" in the top menu, and then "Ordböcker". Direct link
2016-09-08
From autumn semester 2016 the new KAU card also works as a library card. The PIN required to borrow or reserve books is the same PIN as for the KAU card. The KAU card works as a library card, key card and print card More information - KAU card / Library card How to get your KAU CARD
2016-06-10

Rearrangement of bookshelves

News » 2016-06-10
We are working on a project to improve the study environment in the library During summer we have rearranged books and journals in the library. The goal is to make space for better study environments,including more group study places, lounge areas and new technology.
2016-05-24
You need to move your references to another program Karlstad University Library is cancelling its subscription to RefWorks for financial reasons effective January 1 2017.  No new accounts can be set up in RefWorks as of June 1 2016. Refworks user  today Please notice!
2016-05-06

Trial period - Web of Science

News » 2016-05-06
Extended access to Web Of Science. Until August 31 the library has trial access to seven databases. BIOSIS Citation Index Current Contents Data Citation Index(SM) Derwent Innovations Index Medline Web of Science(TM) Core Collection som innefattar Conference Proceedings Zoological Records You'll reach the databases by going to Web of Science, click on "All databases" Web of Science