Library support to researchers

The Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM), which is responsible for Legimus, will no longer produce all required course literature as talking books. In addition, some titles that were previously available in Legimus have been removed. This means that if you use Legimus, you may find that certain books are no longer available.

MTM is changing its approach to course literature because an increasing number of publishers are making e-books available that comply with the new accessibility legislation. Going forward, MTM will increasingly refer users to these e-books and provide supplementary adaptations only when necessary. In addition, titles that have previously been available in Legimus are being removed if they are now available as e-books.

During March 2 to April 1 the library has a trial period for the databases ProQuest One Performing Arts och ProQuest Global Newsstream.

ProQuest One Performing Arts contains material on music, theatre, and dance. The library currently subscribes to the Performing Arts Periodicals Database as well as the Dance in Video, Vol. I collection. An online demo is scheduled for 24 March. Get in touch if you want to participate.

Karlstad University Library now offers access to Covidence, a web-based tool that supports every stage of the systematic literature review process. The platform streamlines the work of importing references, screening titles and abstracts, reviewing full texts, assessing risk of bias, extracting data and exporting results.

• Read more about Covidence and how to access it

Webinar series – learn how to use Covidence

During November and December, a series of web-based training sessions will be offered for Kau employees. All sessions will be recorded, so register even if you are unable to participate live. A link to the recording will be sent out after each session.

 Webinars:

The library has activated trial periods for a couple of AI tools that aim to enhance the search experience through natural language and intelligent topic exploration. You can find the tools directly in the databases Scopus and Web of Science. The test runs until October 10

Evaluation is ongoing for a subscription from January 2026

Scopus AI

Scopus AI allows you to search using full questions or phrases—no need for keywords or Boolean operators. You can even ask your question in Swedish (or another language); the response will be provided in English.

The results are based on abstracts from the Scopus database and are presented as a brief or extended summary with references, foundatinal documents and a concept map generated from your query.

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.