News from The Medical Library

Here are our tips on how to publish openly so that your research can be read by everyone.

The UiO libraries reopen on Thursday for everyone with an access card and code. Study places must be booked in advance.

The Medical Library offers courses in literature searching in medical and interdisciplinary reference databases, critical appraisal of articles, reference management, OA-publishing and research visibility. Find more information and sign up via the overview below.

The University of Oslo Library continues to ensure access to the journals Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ (British Medical Journal) (29 journals) and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) (8 journals) for staff and students at UiO and OUS.

UiOs students and staff can now get access to PressReader. The service allows you to read more than 7400 newspapers and magazines from around the world.

The Publish and Read agreements make it possible for researchers to publish openly and at the same time completely free of charge. This article tells you how to proceed.

Do you need help or guidance with literature searching or reference management? We now offer drop-in help in Zoom!

Are you involved in or planning to be involved in making systematic reviews or other reviews? Rayyan is a tool for screening references, join our course on October 29th 2020 on Zoom.

Zotero Storage is now available to all students and staff at UiO. Entering your UiO email address into your Zotero account gives you unlimited storage to sync PDF files and other attachments.

This year's publishing quotas in the "Publish and Read"-agreements with Wiley, Taylor & Francis and Springer are soon used up. Open access is ensured by self-archiving to DUO via Cristin.

Welcome to the Medical Library. Here are our tips for using the library.

The Medical Library at Rikshospitalet, Ullevål Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital and the Dentistry Library will open its doors again from Monday, August 10 2020. Hooray!

The Humanities and Social Sciences Library in Georg Sverdrups hus is open. The other libraries keep their take away library open, but with reduced opening hours. We are planning to run as normal, with normal opening hours for all our libraries, from 10 August, provided the situation allows for this.

The University Library's collections contain a lot of gay literature. Here we present some books related to LHBTQ themes, gender and sexuality. The list is updated June 2020.

The University Library reading list offers up to date and historical context for the current situation in the USA, from the autobiographical Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, to Black Lives Matter: from a moment to a movement.

We have reopened the order function in Oria, and you can now order books directly there. The form that has been in use lately has been closed.

In the course of next week, UiO will allow for more students and staff to gain access to campus, following new signals from the Ministry of Education and Research, and changes in the infection control rules. Anyone returning to campus must complete a 15-minute infection prevention course.

Through new agreements with Wiley and Taylor & Francis, students and staff at UiO and OUS now have access to over 120,000 more e-book titles than before. In total, we now have access to over 900,000 e-books in Oria, the library's catalog.

The Academic Writing Centre is a consultation service for students and faculty at the UiO.  Although the campus is closed, the centre is open online for all inquiries about the study situation in general and essay writing in particular.

The week after Easter, the University Library will open a limited service for collecting highly needed material from our printed collections. The service will be offered within the national guidelines for infection control. It is not possible to return any books to the Library until we are up and running with normal services again. 

Access more than 250 medical textbooks with ClinicalKey Student. The University of Oslo has trial access for product testing until the end of May 2020.

Access to PsycARTICLES from the American Psychological Association (APA) is secured throughout 2020 through an extraordinary agreement.

Are you a researcher or a clinician, and in need of publications on Covid-19? Medical library has made a collection of resources regarding the corona virus.

The journal packages from PsycARTICLES and the ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection are no longer available after March 1, 2020. At UiO and OUS, we have had access to these journal packages through "Helsebiblioteket". Update as of March 23: The library has now set up the Get It Now service to access articles.

Finally there is an IT-helpdesk at the Medical Library at Rikshospitalet. IT-help will be available Mondays between 09-12, and Tuesdays between 14-16.