The library is in limited operation from March 11 due to rector's special measure. The restriction is currently planned until May 31.

Opening hours

• The library is open in a limited operation from April 23 from Monday to Friday at 9 am - 3 pm
• Only university staff and students of all years can visit the library to return or borrow books.
• Please read more information about the limited operation here .

Loan return days

• All loans were automatically renewed on March 12 and April 15.
• You can check specific return dates after signing into your account in the library catalogue .
• Should there be any discrepancies don't hesitate to contact us via knihovna@ukb.muni.cz
• From April 23 you can visit the library to return books. Please read more information here .
• You can also return your loans to the library by mail.

Study tips and tricks

• Use electronic information resources ezdroje.muni.cz
• How to set up the remote access tutorial
• Check out our manuals on some sources here
• We recommend Discovery manual as it will help you to search for available journals as well
• Availability of eBooks
• You can easily find available eBooks in Discovery - manual here
• You will also learn how to download eBooks or their parts into PDF
• Sadly, even these resources have their limits. Access to some eBooks is restricted by a concurrent number of users. E.g. only three users can access Gray's Anatomy for Students at the same time. Therefore we highly recommend to find requested part in the eBook and then download this part into PDF. After download, close the e-book, so your colleagues can access it as well.
• e-Prezenčka (scanned books)
• The service e-Prezenčka is available from March 19, temporarily during the state of emergency (until May 18).
• E-Prezenčka contains 13.000 scanned books from university libraries. Access is permitted only online, download or printing is forbidden.
• Please read the instruction carefully on it.muni.cz
• Making e-Prezenčka available wasn't an easy step. Therefore, please respect the rules. It is strictly forbidden to reproduce, download, print, take photos or make copies and distribute the content of the service in any way.
• Do you need a specific book in e-prezenčka? We can scan it for you! More information here .
• If you need to access your account on the university computer (library or UCC computers), you can use remote access to a terminal server
• This option will be welcomed by users who need to access their locally stored files (later you could consider moving your data to the cloud )
• You can also use some applications installed on university computers

Online information resources

• In addition to the standard electronic resources available to MUNI, you can use a large number of other, mostly temporarily accessible, resources during the period of the coronavirus outbreak. For example, books from Oxford University Press, National Digital Library Kramerius and others.
• See this article for an updated overview of selected new online resources.

If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us by phone , by e-mail (knihovna@ukb.muni.cz) or by a message on Facebook and Instagram .

Change log of this post:
16/3 change of opening hours for university staff
18/3 Bookport
19/3 e-Prezenčka, Kramerius
26/3 rector's measure extended until May 15
27/3 update of Kramerius information (change of link), Elsevier
31/3 change of post structure, added information about scanning to e-prezenčka
6/4 update of information about e-prezenčka
22/4 update of information about opening hours, lending and borrowing
11/5 the limited operation has been extended until May 31

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