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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. 

From June 4, it is not possible to borrow the course books in Flemingsberg due to renovation work in the course book room.

Each year the MeSH vocabulary is updated with new headings. In 2022, 277 new terms were added. These are now translated to Swedish and searchable in Svensk MeSH (Swedish MeSH).

As from 1 January 2022 there are several new agreements with prepaid publishing fees. Here are all the changes to the library’s selection of e-resources.

From 1 January 2022, KI researchers can publish articles open access with prepaid publishing fees in 35 journals from Nature.

From 1 February 2022, KI researchers can publish articles open access with prepaid publishing fees in all journals from the publisher PLOS.

Karolinska Institutet's policy for open publication, which in short states that KI's researchers must make their peer-reviewed publications open and freely available (open access, OA) under an open license, has existed in its current form for almost a year. In connection with the international open access week that is currently taking place, we will here present statistics on what the transition to open publishing looks like at Karolinska Institutet and to what extent open access publications are cited.

Celebration time! We are very happy to present our new website which was launched on 23 August 2021. When you visit our website kib.ki.se after 23 August, it will look a little different, but hopefully you will not be lost.

During the autumn term, the library will hold five 30-minute lunchtime presentations (in Zoom) on open science databases (often called knowledge bases) with biomolecular content. The presentations are intended for doctoral students and researchers in pre-clinical and translational research.