Books

You can place a hold on a book if:

• The book is currently on loan to someone else
• The book is available on one campus and you want to have it sent to another (for example the book is in Huddinge and you want it shipped to Solna)

You cannot put a hold on a book that has the status “available” if you are picking it up at the same location. In other words, if a book is on the shelf in our library in Huddinge, you cannot put a hold on the book and then come to Huddinge later in the day to pick it up.

Books that are on the shelf are available on a first come, first serve basis.

You place a hold on a book in our library catalogue, MIKS. Log in with your name and library card number.

After you place a hold on a specific book, you will get an e-mail when the book is available for pick up. The e-mail is sent to the e-mail address we have registered in our library system. You have four days (excluding Sundays and public holidays) to pick up a book that has been placed on hold. We keep the books that are available for pick up on the “reservation shelf” in the library where you can find them arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the person that has placed the hold.

• Library catalogue
• Your loans
• Apply for a library card

While the library in Huddinge is closed, June 26 - August 2, you can call or e-mail to make an appointment to pick up a book or copy of an article.

Call +46 8 524 84 000 or e-mail ub@ki.se.

There are boxes for returning books both in Solna and in Huddinge. Please leave your books there when the library is closed.
 

It's easy to renew your books. Login using your name and the barcode on your library card: My pages.

If a book can't be renewed, it's usually because someone else has requested it.

You can return your books at the library at Campus Solna, or at Campus Huddinge.

Daglån always has to returned at the campus where you borrowed it.

The library gives KI access to dictionaries and reference books that you can use in your studies.

• Svensk MeSH (translation of NLMs MeSH terms)
• Medical Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary (KI)
• Oxford Reference Online Premium (KI)
• Norstedts engelska ord
• Sve-eng-sve lexikon
• Svensk synonymordbok
• Svenska Akademiens ordbok (A-Trivsel)
• Tyda.se, (look up both Swedish and English words)
• Visual Dictionary Online
• Nationalencyklopedin (KI)
• Encyclopedia Britannica (KI)

Books with (KI) are only available at KI campus, or via remote access.

In the dissertation database references to KI dissertations from the end of 1995 and onwards can be found.

• Dissertation database

Older dissertations and research reports can be searched through the library catalogue. In the library catalogue you can also order loans of dissertations and reports.

• The Library catalogue

Karolinska University Press is KI's own publishing company, with the aim to develop and stimulate the publishing activity at Karolinska Institutet.

• Karolinska University Press

The loan terms for course books is 1 week (7 days).

Day loans must be returned to the library 8.30 at the latest the day after you have loaned it. If you borrow a day loan on a Friday the book must be returned 10.30 on Saturday at the latest.

Day loans have to be returned at the unit where you loaned them.

The loan terms for regular books (not course books or day loans) is 3 weeks (21 days).

You have to return day loans half an our before the library opens the following day at the latest.

Day loans borrowed on Saturdays or a day before a holiday must be returned half an hour before the library opens the following weekday at the latest.

Day loans must be returned at the same unit that they were borrowed at.