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The theme for International Open Access Week in 2022 is "Open for Climate Justice". We had the opportunity to meet Tobias Alfvén, senior researcher and associate professor in Global Health at the Department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institutet and a paediatrician at Sachs’ Children and Youth Hospital in Stockholm. In this video he shares his thoughts on openness and its role in research.

In March 2022, the Committee for Research established an Open Science Working Group (OSWG) for the promotion of open science at KI. We talked to Patrik Magnusson, chair of the OSWG, about the working group's mission and what's on their agenda.

Exciting activities await as KI puts extra focus on open science during International Open Access Week. Lunch webinars, interviews and tips about useful tools – you'll find it all on Open Access Week 2022!

This semester we are opening up some of our workshops for researchers and doctoral students to join from other universities.

The library gives you access to JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) containing more than 15 000 videos that can be used for research and education. 

Feel free to explore the resource AccessMedicine containing medical e-books, thousands of pictures and illustrations, videos and much more.

We at the University Library (KIB) would like to welcome both new and old students to a new semester at KI.   

For new students, we have gathered information about the library's facilities and services and that may be useful to you while studying at KI. You can watch a short introduction video about the library as well. New student at the library. 

Brain Mapping (Encyclopedic Reference) is now available for KI-affiliated and offers foundational information for students and researchers across neuroscience.

The autumn calendar is now loaded with workshops, presentations and other useful events that you who are a master's student, doctoral student or researcher can take part in.

Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is a high-quality database of small molecule organic and metal-organic 3D crystal structures. The database has been developed since 1965 and is maintained by the Cambridge Crystallographic Centre Data (CCDC), Cambridge, UK.