News from The Medical Library

The negotiations with the two major publishing giants have resulted in new agreements following post-deal negotiations.

You now have access to over 2,500 e-books at Emerald via the University Library!

Through two new agreements, you now have access to over 35,000 e-books at Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press via the University Library.

The physical libraries and the guidance services have reduced opening hours during Christmas.

The EZproxy bookmarklet is a browser extension that makes it easy to see if you have full text access to library resources, without having to go through Oria.

This year, all publishing agreements with publishing quotas, with the exception of one, will be continued throughout the year. The agreement with Frontiers will expire with effect from 1 October.

The University Library's Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) has launched a new service for advice and guidance on how to write data management plans and data management in general.

How do I borrow books, when is it open, do you have a copier, and how can I get free access to my syllabus? Here are the answers to everything you know you need to know.

The University Library's collections contain a lot of LGBTQ+ literature. Here we present books related to lgbtq+ themes, gender and sexuality. You will find both subject books, fiction books, and comic books on the list. The list is updated June 2021.

From 1 June 2021, there will be changes in how you log in to your personal account in PubMed (NCBI account). Read about what you need to do if you have an account.

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

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!

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!

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.

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