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More than 6000 ebooks from Springer are now available at KIB!
The university library has bought ebook collections in Biomedicine and Life Sciences as well as in Medicine. The ebooks are in PDF format and you´ll find them in reSEARCH, the library catalogue or in Springers platform.
The University Library is now offering online courses on lynda.com
All students, faculty, and staff at KI now have access to lynda.com, an online subscription library that teaches the latest software tools and skills through high-quality instructional videos taught by recognized industry experts.
In order to create an account, the first time you need to be on the KI campus. Once you have created an account you can access more than 1,500 training videos on a broad range of subjects from any computer or device.
Access the lynda.com library 24/7 - even from your iPhone, iPad, Android device, or mobile phone - and watch entire courses or single tutorial videos as you need them. Exercise files let you follow along with the instruction as you learn, and bookmarks help you keep track of what you’d like to watch.
Start by viewing this short video: About the service.
Update in our bibliometric system
You can now verify all publications which are indexed in Medline and published 1995 or later regardless of whether or not the publications appear in Web of Science.
The reason for this change has to do with the many different ways that the research produced by KI is analyzed. Checking how often a publication is cited is of interest, but more often than not the questions that are of greatest interest have to do with who is publishing what or which subject areas are represented in KI publications. It is also important to be aware of which publications are excluded from the analyses that are based solely on date from the database we use for citation analysis, Web of Science.
We also updated the interface (http://kipublications.ki.se) where you can check which KI publications are already in the bibliometric system.
New database list
On November 1st the database list is being updated and will change appearance & function.
- Our new list has links to mobile sites and apps for those databases that have them.
- EasySearch will cease completely after October 31. If you wish to search across multiple databases please use reSEARCH instead.
- The "My saved databases" function that was in EasySearch will disappears. If you would still like to save your favorite databases, you can do so via the box "My favorite databases" on our homepage.
We have also taken the opportunity to review the contents of the database list, which means that we have gone through clickthrough statistics for a year. The freely available databases that have had very few or no clicks at all we simply removed from the list.
We hope that this will make the database list more easier to survey and more useful for you.
The information about mobile interfaces and apps is not entirely complete but we will continue to update the list.
Your library card on your phone with Passbook and iOS6
Do you keep forgetting your library card and wish you could have it on your phone? A new and elegant way of saving tickets, coupons and other cards was introduced by Apple last week, in the latest iPhone update to iOS 6. You might have seen the icon already, labeled "Passbook", so why not try it out by adding your University library card?
To add your library card to Passbook, enter this address in Safari on your iPhone:
Enter your name and library card barcode number in the form, and press "Skapa pass". The card will now download and be displayed as a preview before you can save it. Press the "Add" button to save, and you're done!
Now when your library card is saved, you can access it by going in to the Passbook app. As soon as you're in, or close to the library, the card will be displayed automatically on your home screen for quick access when you're at the self-checkout machine for instance. This requires that location services are turned on though, and can be disabled of course.
Unfortunately our self checkout-machines can't read barcodes on smartphone screens. This means you have to enter the barcode number manually instead of scanning it. This can be done by pressing the "No patron card?" button at the bottom of the screen when asked to scan.
We hope this service will simplify life for at least some of you, and we will happily take suggestions or comments by either mail, phone or chat.
Invitation to a workshop on future journals and KI
The journals landscape is changing, but how?
Karolinska Institutet University Library is pleased to invite you to attend the author workshop "Future Journals and KI" which is mainly intended for younger researcher/PhD students. The work
The workshop will look at which journals KI researchers prefer most, factors influencing how to choose a journal and some publishing recommendations from KI. In this context, repre- sentatives from three important publishers, i.e. PloS, BioMed Central and Nature will talk about their views on publishing trends and how they plan to be future journals at KI.
Attendance is free of charge, but we do require that you sign up so that we know how many people are attending for the coffee break.
Place: CMB Lecture Room, Berzelius väg 21, Karolinska Institutet Campus Solna
Date & time: Friday 5th October, 09.00-11.30
Easier to print and copy
In about a week, we're launching a new printing system at the University Library. From September 10th all prints and copies will be handled by your KI card instead of a separate copy card and printing account.
With the new system, you can print from any computer and pick up your copies at any printer by just swiping your KI card. Long gone are the times when you had to remember which printer is which, and where it's located. You will also no longer have to manually add funds to your account by standing in the library waiting line.
Payment for prints and copies will be handled by PayEx. You can prepare today already, by creating a PayEx account, which functions as a digital wallet. Funds can be added by bank transfer or credit card online, and is free for you as a user. We recommend you wait to add any funds just yet though. All students with funds still left on their old account will have them transferred to PayEx once the system is up and running.
Welcome to a friendlier printing environment on September 10th!
A new way to search - reSEARCH
We have changed the way you search for articles, books and other resources on the library start page. With the launch of the search engine reSEARCH, it is now possible to search through almost all of the library's available resources from one search box.
This has caused some changes to the library start page:
Instead of doing your search in PubMed by default, your hits will now be displayed i reSEARCH, and you will get relevant hits from all of the library's resources. Direct links to PubMed, CINAHL etcetera are placed to the right of the search box, as seen in the picture above.
Another change is that EasySearch has disappeared from the start page, since it to most extent is replaced by reSEARCH.
We hope this new search engine will make it easier for you to search - and faster too!
For the time being, reSEARCH is still in beta and bugs may occur. Please, contact us at emedia.ub@ki.se if you encounter any, or if you have questions about reSEARCH in general.
Stockholm Summer School 2012
Karolinska Institutet University Library welcomes you to Stockholm Summer School, 18 June - 6 July.
Courses, star lectures and social activities on three top universities, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
For more information please visit the Stockholm Summer School website.
Use the new bibliometric analysis toolkit to analyze your own verified publications
One aim of the Karolinska Institutet/SLL bibliometric database is to provide information to help individual researchers assess and improve the impact of their publications.
Now, a bibliometric analysis toolkit has been launched to more easily make this kind of information accessible to verifying authors. (You will find it in the top, right hand corner of the verification toolkit, https://bibliometrics.ki.se/users/login)
You can explore the bibliometric profile of your publications, the publications of your department/clinic or, if your wish, of KI/SLL as a whole. You can also see in which KI/SLL decentile you can be found based on indicator values for your publications, such as number of citations or average journal impact.
If you have any questions that are not answered by our "mouse overs", help texts or FAQ:s, or if you wish to order a more advanced bibliometric analysis, please contact us at ub@ki.se.