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New e-books on Oxford Scholarship Online, Sage Knowledge and ScienceDirect
All students and employees of Charles University had temporary access to thousands of e-books from many scientific fields on the Oxford Scholarship Online (access until November 2021), Sage Knowledge (access until November 2021) and ScienceDirect (access until December 2021) platforms for one … More
Central Library lends laptops to students during the pandemic
Did your personal computer break down and you cannot attend online lectures or write your seminar papers? The CU Central Library has a solution. During the period of emergency measures, students of bachelor’s and master’s study programmes of Charles University … More
Expanding the ERA Reseach Club. Your help is needed!
Are you at the start of your research career and would you appreciate training in skills such as research study design, critical evaluation, research management, and academic writing? With the support of ERA Chair project “Chaperon” the Faculty of Medicine … More
Invitation: Management of Science
Would you like to obtain a grant and do not know all the procedures? The “Management of Science” workshop may help you get the necessary financial sources for your research. Register for the Management of Science webinar to find out … More
When the first seminar paper knocks at your door…
In college, you need to read a lot of academic literature when writing each seminar paper. Charles University libraries offer not only traditional printed books, journals and university textbooks, but also a number of electronic resources (scientific articles, e-books, thematic … More
The new UKAŽ and the Alma library platform are live. Come visit our libraries!
Today, the libraries of Charles University started operating in the new library platform Alma. It also includes a new form of the discovery service UKAŽ (ukaz.cuni.cz/en), which replaces and unifies the functions of the original library catalogue (CKIS), the SFX … More
CU Central Catalog has been terminated
Due to planned migration to the new CU library platform, the CU Central Catalog has been terminated at 12. 8. 2021. Also, printed documents and some e-books are not available in the Discovery Service UKAŽ. On 1st September, the CU … More
Moodle will be temporarily unavailable
CU Moodle will be temporarily unavailable from July 29 to August 1, 2021, due to the regular summer maintenance and system upgrade. Thank you for your understanding.
University servers and services outage
UPDATE: All university services are available again. We apologize for the inconvenience, but for technical reasons many university services and tools are currently unavailable (CAS, Moodle, Aleph etc.). The CU’s Institute of Computer Science is already working to resolve this … More
With a new library platform from September
IMPORTANT! Before we launch a new platform from September 2021, it is necessary to temporarily close all libraries’ operation at Charles University. The temporary shutdown will take place from 12 to 31 August 2021 inclusive. Data from existing systems will … More