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2024-09-10
A series of workshops at the Library - Science Skills To Go
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.
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2024-09-03
Trial period - Web of Science Research Assistant
During September, the library has a trial period for the AI tool Research Assistant available in the Web of Science database.
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.
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2019-10-15
New encyclopedia about communication
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.
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2019-04-01
Journals of the Royal Society: Three-month trial
The university library have a 3 month trial period of journals from The Royal Society
During the trial it is possible to access the 10 journals in Royal Society Package S:
Philosophical Transactions A
Philosophical Transactions B
Proceedings A
Proceedings B
Biology Letters
Journal of Royal Society Interface
Interface Focus
Notes and Records
Open Biology (Open access)
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2018-11-21
How to get access to new articles from Elsevier
As of July 2018, Swedish universities have limited access to journals from Elsevier, one of the world’s largest scientific publishers. However, employees at Karlstad University can still access new articles through the interlibrary lending service, ”Get it now”.
Magazines published by Elsevier between January 1, 1995 and June 30, 2018 are still available through the usual channels. Articles published before, or after, said period can be borrowed through the interlibrary lending services. In most cases, you will find links to the interlibrary services via KAUlink on the library's various search services and databases.
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2018-09-19
BrowZine now available
The library now subscribes to BrowZine - a tool for browsing and reading the library´s electronic journals.
Do you want an easier way to access scholarly e-journals? Check out BrowZine—a Web-based service and app for Apple or Android devices that helps you browse through scholarly e-journals.