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The University of Tartu Library Calendar for 2018 introduces the Roman Carnival as described 230 years ago by the great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) in his book Das Römische Carneval.

The database of The Geological Society of London, Lyell Collection, is available for trial until 1 December 2017. The Lyell Collection represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth Science literature available. Please send your feedback to the address [email protected]

Dear readers! On Saturday, 28 October the library is closed due to the power cut. The pop-up reading rooms in Veski str 32 are open as usual from 12 until 18. Sorry for the inconveniences!

The anatomy databases Acland Anatomy and Visible Body are open for trial until 18 November 2017.

From 23 - 27 October 2017 OpenAIRE celebrates Open Access Week with a series of webinars, every day at 12.00-15.00 (Estonian time). The webinars will focus on a range of topics, including two webinars dedicated on research data management and data management plans, discipline specific workflows and tools for open science, legal and privacy issues and of course our well-known overview webinars on H2020 open access policies and mandates. Here is the list of webinars: MONDAY OCTOBER 23 2PM CEST

Medical database ClinicalKey is available for trial for the University of Tartu until 30 November 2017.

Dear readers! Due to server renovation on Monday, 02 October and the books that are requested on Monday will be available for picking up on Wednesday, 04 October. Books can be returned during the opening hours 9-19. As there is no network connection in the pop-up reading room in Veski str, the computer class is also closed on Monday. Wi-fi connection is avilable. We are very sorry for the inconveniences!

If you are looking for a quiet learning environment or you need a place for discussing group works, just pop in to our pop-up reading rooms. The first-year students visited us and made a short tour for you as well.

ID-card and Mobile-ID can now be used in registering as a user of the library and entering online catalogue ESTER.

On November 8, 2017 RDA Estonia and UT Library organize a seminar “RDA Meets Estonian Researchers”. The Estonian research communities, researchers in general, policy makers in open access to data, open science enablers and the re-use of research data champions are invited to join and discuss technological as well as sociological matters around the re-use of research data on the national, European and global levels. Event is free of charge but pre-registration is necessary.

What is open science? Should everybody have an acess to research data? How does UT Library support researchers in the publication of research data? Our new vlog episode is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aNtte9VJQs&t=217s

On Monday University of Tartu Library opened an information point in the ground floor of the main building of the university. In the information point students will receive information about the library services. It is also possible to register oneself as a user of the library.

On Monday, 7 August 2017, the University of Tartu and AS Ehitustrust and OÜ Tallinna Ehitustrust, who won the public procurement for the library reconstruction works, signed a contract, according to which all construction works on the building must be completed by 9 January 2019. AS Ehitustrust starts with the necessary demolition works on the site next week.

Until the end of December 2017 Future Medicine Journals are available for trial. The database contains 28 journals from the fields of clinical and translational medicine and biosciences. Access to the databases is possible via UT computer network. Please send your feedback to the address [email protected]

On Monday, July 31 UT Library will open the pop-up reading rooms in the former building of the Estonian National Museum (Veski str. 32). There is enough room for these who want to study as well as for group works.

4 offers were made for the tender for finishing the construction work of the University of Tartu Library. The winner of the public tender was AS Ehitustrust and OÜ Tallinna Ehitustrust, which made a joint offer in the amount of 5.75 million euros (plus VAT).

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This week the University of Tartu Library celebrates its 215th anniversary. On Tuesday, 20 June a festive event will be held for the staff members and guests at the Fraternity Rotalia. The real birthday of the University of Tartu Library is actually on 23 June, as the first entry to the diary of loans was made on this date in the year 1802. The library started with 4000 books, now this number has reached 4 million.

The 5th vlog episode introduces the research data repository DataDOI and gives instructions how to us it. DataDOI is created for collecting, long-time preservation and publication of digital materials. Link to out vlog here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzQ_Lca1KPg

Dear readers, In June there are the following changes in the opening hours of the library: 20 June – open from 9-17 (due to the celebration of 215th anniversary of the library) 22 June - open 9-12 23-25 June – closed. 26-30 June - pop-up reading rooms open 9-19.