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If you loan a textbook/book from the open shelves, look at the type of label – it indicates the loan period: red (24 hours), orange (7 days), green (30 days) and no label (150 days).
Searching in a library catalogue
Library opening hours
Mon – Thu: 8:00am-6:00pm
Fri: 8:00am-4:00pm
Study rooms S1.59 & S1.60
Mon – Sun: 6:00am – midnight
The library is situated at 1. PP of the faculty campus.
The lending department operates as the open shelves system – you choose the document by yourself and borrow it via selfcheck or in cooperation with us.
Contacts
Here, you can find the all contacts of the Library
| Name | Agenda | Phone (+420) 377593 … |
| Ilona Baxová | acquisition, invoicement, subscription of the monographs | 146 |
| Barbora Formanová, BBus (Hons) | subscription of the journals, electronic information resources manager | 140 |
| loan service – open shelves | 150 | |
| Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Kosnarová | registration of the publications, open access for faculty | 156 |
| Bc. Anna Nguyenová | loan service – open shelves, social network management | 158 |
| Mgr. Jan Rendla | interlibrary loans, advices against predatory publishing, citation managers, web pages of CSI, S1.70 admin | 145 |
| Daniela Spišiaková | loan service – open shelves | 151 |
| Ivana Šafránková | catalogueing | 147 |
| Vít Švejda | systems librarian for Alma, data steward, employment licenses for Amboss, user support for Socrative and Zoom | 157 |
| Mgr. Michaela Tolarová | user support for Turnitin, personal identifiers | – |
| loan service – open shelves | 144 | |
| PhDr. Dana Zdeňková | head of the library | 141 |
New publications to borrow
News and trials
220 new e-books across disciplines purchased by Charles University
As a permanent purchase with EU assistance, we have the opportunity to read 220 new e-books for the CU.
Supporting open access publishing at Charles University – information for 2026
With the new year, open access tokens for all publishers that Charles University has an agreement with are again available! The list of eligible publishers and information on how to obtain the tokens can be found on the Open Science Support Centre’s website. Please, read the instruction of the Centre very carefully. Elsevier publishing house has recently started offering tokens.
NEJM Evidence – access at least till the end of 2028
Charles University has the access to a major journal from a US publisher – NEJM Evidence – until at least the end of 2028.
Amboss – AI Mode Learning till 31. 12. 2027
AI Mode Learning in Amboss licenses is a generative artificial intelligence tool trained only on Amboss data. The data uploaded by users is not stored or used for further training. You can watch a recording of a quick introduction to the features. See the suitability for use in medicine across AI models.
Amboss in 2026 – changes in license activation(!)
Starting in 2026, AMBOSS is introducing a new license allocation system. It will no longer be necessary to apply for an individual activation code. To activate or extend your license, you will need to complete a verification process. On the AMBOSS website choose „Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen“. To complete the verification, you must use your university e-mail address. If needed, you may also consult the university e-mail manual. If you experience any issues, please contact lenka.krikavova@lfp.cuni.cz (ing. Křikavová) or vit.svejda@lfp.cuni.cz (Mr. Švejda).
Osmosis – learning platform only for our faculty new up to 30. 4. 2027
The Osmosis learning platform combines modern technologies and teaching methods tailored to the needs of medical students. It offers a wide range of multimedia educational materials, including videos, quizzes, and flashcards.
Avoiding Predatory Publishing – Taylor & Francis – webinar recording from 21. 5.
Those who were unable to attend the webinar on predators in the field of academic publishing can watch it from the recording (you must enter your name and your email to start).
Rector’s Directive: Amendment No. 4/2025 of CU Library and Circulation Rules
We would like to inform you about rector’s amendment of Library and Circulation Rules.
Monkey pox (Mpox) – information for free
WHO has recently declared the monkeypox (Mpox) epidemic in Africa as a possible global threat, UpToDate has released the relevant topics so that they are now freely available to all, regardless of a subscription to the resources.
Chapman’s Comprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery, 4th ed. – free of charge
This 4 volume e-publication on the Books@Ovid platform provides comprehensive coverage of the diagnosis, surgical and medical treatment and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders. More than 1,500 surgical procedures are described here, which are supplemented with “tips and tricks” for clarity. Plus over 13,000 illustrations, charts, tables and algorithms.
E-resources
E-journals
The journals are ordered either as individual titles, which are registered in the library and subsequently distributed to the relevant clinics and departments if they do not remain in our free shelves. On behalf of faculty/hospital, we enter so-called consortia and thanks to this we have access to several hundreds online journal’s titles.
It is necessary to keep in mind certain unavoidable limitations that accompany access to the electronic version:
- in general, users from the faculty and the hostipal may not have equal access to journals
- some journals do not have full-text articles published online at all
- other times, the price of the purchased printed version does not include the online version
- sometimes the access is provided to only one user
The effort was to make titles that we as a faculty/hospital subscribe to available. The list includes some journals that offer free full texts. Because login details are often provided in the list and the faculty/hospital pays for subscriptions (=accesses), the list is ONLY available from the Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital network and Eduroam.
ONLY the Library of the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the Faculty of Medicine of Pilsen establishes or changes login details, including entering IP addresses!
Use the list of available subscribed journals for LF/FN.
Services
Loan services
- Searching in the faculty collections is provided by the UKAŽ search engine, which also allows you to create a reservation for currently loaned titles
- If you are interested in borrowing from other locations of the collection (e.g. storage), do not hesitate to contact the loan desk staff
- There are info kiosks and self-checks
- Each reader can check the current status of loans, requests and any fees online in their user account
- A significant part of the library’s collection is available as open shelves; you can use the map to facilitate orientation:
Types of loans
Library cards
- Anyone with a current relationship with Charles University (students, employees) can fully use the library services after completing the electronic application form
- For other interested parties (staff of the hospital, the public), it is necessary to first have an external user card issued at the Card Service Center in Prague only
- Renewal of registration is free of charge and can be done on site at the library or online using the registration form
Printing and reprographic services
- For printing instructions, please click YouTube
- Price list
- format A4: 2 CZK / 1 BW page, 5 CZK / 1 colour page
- format A3: 4 CZK / 1 BW page, 10 CZK / 1 colour page
- Information for student associations
- There is a card at the reference desk that full members of student associations can use to make copies for the association’s needs. When using it, you need to sign in the notebook.
- Information for students with specific needs (SN)
- There is a card at the reference desk that SN students can use to print/copy after proving their entitlement to the service. You need to sign up for the notebook to use it.
Bone models
For those interested, the library offers the possibility of borrowing 5 sets of models of bones of the upper limb, lower limb and skull. We can also borrow a model of the larynx (1x) and the brain (1x).
Study rooms
For studying, you can use the quiet study room (room S1.68), self-study rooms (rooms S1.61-S1.67) directly inside the SVI and study rooms with extended opening hours (S1.59 and S1.60).
For internet access, use the computers in the quiet study room and for practicing working with the interactive whiteboard, use the equipment in study rooms 1.59 and 1.60.
Additionally, there is a Bookomat located in S1.60 – here you can return your loans during the extended opening hours of the study room.
Self-study rooms can be booked via ISKAM (CAS login and click BELLOW Language –> English and then on Service reservations – New booking. Please, select Reservation type –> Samostudovny (Czech-English word mix) and New booking. In the top navigation bar in Service reservations, look at My bookings, where you can see an overview of them and you can also cancel them by clicking on the trash icon. It is allowed to have a reservation in the following mode: 1 study room – 2 times a day – 2 hours.