Your guide to the University Library

The library has for 2025 updated some agreements concerning media resources and subscriptions.

The anatomy resource Human Anatomy Atlas 2018 has been upgraded to Visble Body Web Suite - now also with yearly updates

We now have institutional early access to JSTOR’s interactive research tool. This tool is described by JSTOR as "employs AI and other technologies to empower people to deepen and expand their research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus".

To use the tool you will need to login/create a personal account. The tool helps you to assess content relevance, deepen your 
research and uses natural, conversational language. Use it to identify relevant material faster and to discover new topics and content. 

Scopus, a database containing bibliographic records and citation data, has recently launched an AI functionality in its service.

The trial period has now ended, and evaluation is in progress.

Scopus AI is an add-on that is not included in the regular offering of the database, but KAU now has access to it on a trial basis for four weeks (October 7th-November 6th , 2024). You can directly access Scopus AI from the Scopus.com homepage.

The University Library, offering support and resources in various parts of the research process, will continue the seminar series "Science skills to go" for researchers and doctoral students during the autumn semester, with a series of workshops.

The aim of the series is to highlight topics that may be important for you as a researcher to know and find a concept that does not take too much time from your research. Each workshop is therefore about 30 minutes long.

During September, the library has a trial period for the AI tool Research Assistant available in the Web of Science database.

• Read more about the tool
• Log in to Web of Science

The tool is developed by Clarivate, and the hope is that it will make it easier for researchers to find relevant documents in the database by allowing them to ask questions in their own language, get help finding relevant journals, generate visualizations and subject maps, etc. The answers are based on the material available in the database.

The library now subscribes to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.

The library now subscribes to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.
It is a digital encyclopedia that contains over 500 peer-reviewed articles with research / area overviews in all aspects of communication. The articles are written, reviewed and edited by researchers and among the contributors are Henrik Örnebring and Mikael Karlsson who are active in the subject Media and Communication Science at Karlstad University.

The Encyclopedia is updated every month with new articles.