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More than 6000 ebooks from Springer are now available at KIB!

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:53:45 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:13:34 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:35:25 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:30:12 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:51:28 +0000

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:

kib.ki.se/m/passbook

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

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:30:54 +0000

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

See full program and register for the workshop

Easier to print and copy

admin — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:48:27 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:34:50 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:46:04 +0000

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

webbredaktion — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:34:23 +0000

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.

Summertime at the Library

webbredaktion — Wed, 30 May 2012 10:51:22 +0000

During summer we have changed opening hours at the Library. From 11th of June until 12th of August the Library in Solna is open 10 am - 14 pm, Monday to Friday. Closed on weekends. The library in Huddinge will be open on request during the same time period. Please see our Opening hours for detailed information.

During summer the lending time on our books is prolonged, books borrowed on 4th of June and onwards are to be returned on the 27th of August.

What went down on Health Hack Day?

admin — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Last weekend, the first edition of Health Hack Day was arranged in Stockholm. The event was part networking opportunity for people interested in health technology, and part contest, where ten teams of developers got 24 hours to develop a prototype of a new tool for digital healthcare. Among the contributions were a diary-like app for parents of prematurely born babies, an XBOX Kinect based tool for motoric tests designed for patients suffering from Parkinsons disease, and an app that makes it more fun to keep track on how your wellbeing is affected by what you eat.

The winning contribution though was a smartphone app for urin sample analysis, which uses the smartphones camera to analyze the sample and then visualize the result. If you're curious about how it works, videos of all the presentations and talks from the weekend are available at the Health Hack Day website.

Verification deadline in the Karolinska Institutet/SLL bibliometric system, 31st of May.

webbredaktion — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:38:00 +0000

Indicators used for both Karolinska Institutet and SLL resource allocation 2013 will be calculated on publications in the bibliometric system verified up until and including May 31st.

Please note that the analysis will exclude confirmed publications that in the bibliometric verification toolkit have not yet been supplied with address information about where they were written (be it at KI, SLL or any other organization).

Log in at https://bibliometrics.ki.se/users/login
Proxy login to KI network should not be used since this may cause login problems.

Verification help is available in the right hand menu of the login page. Questions can be sent to the university library (mail, phone or chat) or the libraries at the university hospitals.

Come celebrate with us!

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:05:47 +0000

Join us for the inauguration of the library’s newly renovated ground floor near the lecture halls at Berzelius väg 3 (popularly known as BZ).
We’ll be offering refreshments as well as a surprise from “a galaxy far far away”.
When: Wenesday 25/4, 10.00
Where: library entrance, Solna campus

Opening hours during Easter

webbredaktion — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:12:26 +0000

Easter is coming closer and that means some changes in the Library opening hours. On Holy Thursday we close at 5 pm. From Good Friday until Easter Monday the Llibrary is closed, both in Solna and Huddinge. More information about our Holiday opening hours.

Happy Easter!

Spring exhibition 2012

webbredaktion — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:55:20 +0000

Come and watch arts and crafts designed by KI staff.

The Vernissage is held at noon (12 pm) the 20th of March at the University Library in Huddinge. The exhibition can be seen between 20-30 March.

The KI shuttle between Solna and Huddinge stops right outside the Library where the exhibition is held.

Warmly Welcome!

600 new e-books!

sagpoh@ki.se — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:47:58 +0000

This week it's the international "Read an E-book Week", and we are celebrating by giving students and staff at KI access to over 600 new e-books.

We have bought Informa Healthcare Online Books Complete Collection which consists of over 600 e-books with a very broad coverage of the medical field. As an example, click on the links to see the titles available for the following subject areas: dermatology, toxicology and neurology.

To find the e-books from Informa Healthcare you can either go to our e-book webpage or to our library catalogue MIKS.

If you are having problems with the e-books you can chat with our e-media support or send us an email to emedia.ub@ki.se.

Get inspired by a professor

sagpoh@ki.se — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:45:26 +0000

The successful seminar series 'Get inspired by a professor' continues this spring. The lectures take place on Thursdays 12.15-12.45 in the library at Huddinge Campus. Sandwiches and drinks will be served on a first come, first served basis.

The list of seminars will be updated with the topic for each lecturer.

Some of the seminars will be held in Swedish, and some in English. Here is a list of the seminars with English titles, so far.

9 February: Our common future - Reflections of a health systems researcher, Göran Tomson, Professor of International Health Systems and Policy Research at the Department of Public Health Sciences.
16 February: Selenium - from Berzelius to current research on selenoproteins, Elias Arnér, Professor of Biochemistry, with a special focus on selenoproteins at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
1 March: Genes, lifestyle and rheumatic diseases , Lars Klareskog, Professor of Reumatology at the Department of Medicine.
15 March: Hearing Loss and Tinnitus - From Molecule to Society, Barbara Canlon, Professor of Hearing Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.

If you missed the autumn semester 2011 lectures you can view them on YouTube:

Extended opening hours in KIB-labb and a new Information Desk (“Infopunkt”) for students

sagpoh@ki.se — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:21:22 +0000

You have probably noticed that there is a lot going on at our facilities on the Solna campus. The goal is to create better learning environments for KI students.

At the same time, the library has made a few changes concerning some of the services offered.

We have extended the opening hours of KIB- labb! From now on, you are welcome to drop-in at KIB-labb between 11 AM and 16 PM on Monday to Friday in Solna as well as Huddinge. KIB-labb is an academic workshop during which librarians tutor students in e.g. information retrieval and management as well as how to cite the literature and create bibliographies.

In a few weeks, there will be more changes in Solna. When the renovation of the learning environment in BZ is completed, we will move the library information desk on floor 3 and Lyktan on floor 2 to a new information point called "Infopunkten” which has been created as a collaboration between Student Affairs, Faculty Office - Higher Education, Facilities Planning, the Information Technology Office and the University Library.

“Infopunkten” will act as a joint information desk for all activities in the BZ building and will be inaugurated on the 24th February 2012.

Try the Scopus app: SciVerse Scopus Alerts

sagpoh@ki.se — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:08:59 +0000

One of our new databases for 2012 is Scopus, a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database. If you have a smart phone and want to use it to get access to Scopus, we recommend that you download the database app, SciVerse Scopus Alerts.

Before you download the app you have to create a personal account in Scopus. Instructions for creating an account in Scopus:

Go to our list of databases, click on Scopus.
Create an account by clicking “Register” at the top right of the page.
Fill in the form – and it’s important that you type in you KI e-mail when asked for an e-mail address.

Now you are ready to go to App Store or Android Market on your mobile to download the app. Once that is done, you can:

•    Search across thousands of scholarly journals from more than 5000 international publisher
•    Save the important articles in one place for easy look-up
•    Set up and review email alerts for your favorite searches
•    Set up email alerts for when an author cites a particular article
•    Annotate articles with your own notes and share article links through email or twitter.