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News
The library will be CLOSED during the summer holidays 30. 6. – 29. 8. 2025. Please read carefully the detail information regarding student or employee loans and other matters related to the operation of the library in the News and Trials section.
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Library opening hours*
* see the News and Trials section
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 |
| Adam Frous | registration of the publications, open access | 149 |
| Šárka Hlavatá | loan service – open shelves | 150 |
| Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Kosnarová | registration of the publications | 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 | – |
| Bc. Lenka Urbanová | loan service – open shelves | 144 |
| PhDr. Dana Zdeňková | head of the library | 141 |
New publications to borrow
News and trials
Opening hours during the summer holidays 30th June – 29th August 2025
SUMMER LIBRARY CLOSURE FOR STUDENTS 30. 6. – 29. 8. 2025
Loan and reprographic services will be unavailable during the library closure. Solely the study rooms with extended opening hours (S1.59, S1.60) will remain open, where students can use our Bookomat (library drop box) to return books.
In case of borrowing books for the final year or returning books upon completion of studies, please use the e-mail knihovna.upominky@lfp.cuni.cz, phone number (+420) 377 593 150 or the library’s social media. Loans expiring during the library closure will be all extended until 22nd September, 2025.
SUMMER OPENING HOURS FOR EMPLOYEES/OTHER VISITORS
The library opening hours for faculty (hospital) employees/other visitors from 30th June to 29th August, 2025 will be as following: Mon-Fri 8:00am – 3:30pm. In case of any questions, please use the e-mail knihovna.upominky@lfp.cuni.cz, phone number (+420) 377 593 150 or the library’s social media.
PubMed/MEDLINE – website maintenance since 25. 7. 2025 9PM (EDT)
The provider of PubMed/MEDLINE announce the website maintenance starting on Friday, July 25th, starting at 9:00 PM EDT till Monday July 28th.
Osmosis – learning platform for our faculty only – till 30. 4. 2026
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.
The new 2024 edition of JCR with impact factors has been released
Clarivate has released a new edition of journals and their impact factors – 2024 JCR Science Edition. JIF findings: direct access from FMP / remote access for FMP.
Note 1: If there are ever technical problems with the platform’s accessibility, the universal solution seems to be to empty your browser’s cache.
Note 2: JCR is the only one platform for searching JIF.
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.
Supporting open access publishing at Charles University – information for 2025
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. The exact number of tokens for publisher with a limited number of tokens will be published in mid-February 2025.
We would also like to remind you that for publishers Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Springer and Taylor & Francis, which do not have a sufficient number of tokens per year, additional rules for token allocation have been put in place (see the link above).
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.