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During the fall 2025 LUBcat and LUBsearch will be replaced by a new search interface. A beta version of the search system is available (you'll find a link below). Feel free to share your feedback, and let us know if you’re interested in participating as a test user in usability testing!Beta versionIn the beta version you can search the libraries' electronic and print collections. You can also requ
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/find/new-search-interface - 2025-07-07
Biology Library, Library of ScienceVisiting address: Kontaktvägen 10Building: EkologihusetEmail: biologibiblioteket [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (biologibiblioteket[at]science[dot]lu[dot]se)Telephone: 046 222 38 12, HS: 50 Campus Helsingborg, LibraryVisiting address: Universitetsplatsen 2Building: C, floor: 2Email: bibliotek [at] ch [dot] lu [dot] se (bibliotek[at]ch[dot]lu[dot]se)Telephone: 042
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/our-libraries - 2025-07-07
We recommend that you make your doctoral thesis freely available online when you register it. If you or the University owns the rights to your doctoral thesis, you decide whether or not you want your doctoral thesis to be made available electronically. Naturally, if your doctoral thesis, or parts of it, is published by external publishers, this must be taken into consideration, but it is often sti
Lund University has one of Sweden’s oldest and largest research libraries. Together with the University Library, 23 faculty, department and centre libraries in Lund, Malmö and Helsingborg constitute a network of libraries at Lund University. Close to 200 people work in the network, providing high quality support to all the University’s students and employees, as well as the general public. The Lun
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/our-libraries/library-network/organisation - 2025-07-07
The library board leads the activities collective to all the libraries at Lund University and is also the board of the University Library. The chair of the library board is appointed by the vice-chancellor; for the 2015–2017 period the chair is Olov Sterner. All faculties are represented on the board. The board takes decisions on issues concerning the collective orientation of shared library activ
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/our-libraries/library-network/organisation/library-board - 2025-07-07
A study in the use and usability of a search system During the spring semester 2014, an investigation of LUBsearch, the library network’s shared information system, was carried out. The aim of the investigation was to collect data from actual users to study the use and usability of LUBsearch. We wanted to find out how different groups of users use the system (e.g. students and researchers) and als
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/library-network/projects/use-lubsearch - 2025-07-07
How can the University best support lecturers who want to make e-books part of their teaching materials? The e-book as a teaching resource is a collaborative project between the Centre for Educational Development (CED) and the libraries at Lund University. The aim of the project, which ran in 2013–2014, was to inventory the conditions for teaching staff wishing to make e-books out of teaching mate
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/library-network/projects/e-book-educational-resource - 2025-07-07
During 2012, employees from various faculty libraries worked on the planning and implementation of a project with the overall aim of developing the libraries’ services to researchers at Lund University. The project group consisted of librarians from six faculties and the University Library.The aim of the project was to identify areas in which the libraries can develop and reinforce the services th
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/library-network/projects/researchers-library-service-needs - 2025-07-07
What impact does the libraries’ teaching have on students’ information management skills? The impact project was started in 2011 and concluded in 2015. Its aim was to investigate the impact of the libraries’ teaching on students’ ability to search for and manage information and to critically review sources.MethodsDuring the initial phase (2011) focus group interviews were held with students, lectu
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/library-network/projects/impact-libraries-teaching - 2025-07-07
During 2014 a cooperation project was carried out between the university libraries in Gothenburg and Lund and an upper secondary school library in Mölnlycke, with the aim of developing methods and tools for the evaluation of the libraries’ teaching within the field of information literacy. The project Methods and tools for the evaluation of courses in information literacy is a collaboration betwee
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/library-network/projects/methods-and-tools-evaluation - 2025-07-07
MembersJacob Branting, Faculty of EngineeringÅse Lugnér, Faculty of Fine & Performing ArtsViktoria Hörnlund, Joint Faculty of Humanities & Theology Catarina Carlsson, Faculty of LawCarola Tilgman, Faculty of MedicineKristina Holmin Verdozzi, Faculty of ScienceMaria Ohlsson, Faculty of Social SciencesDaniel Gunnarsson, School of Economics and ManagementHåkan Carlsson, University LibrarianLena Landg
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/our-libraries/library-network/organisation/library-directors-group - 2025-07-07
Open access (OA) means that research results are published in such a way that they are freely accessible online. There are two “roads” to OA, the “golden road”, and the “green road”. In Lund University’s policy on publishing, researchers are encouraged to publish OA as much as possible in order to increase research visibility, use and impact. Today, many of the large research funders demand that r
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/services-and-support/publishing-and-registering/open-access - 2025-07-07
Research funders increasingly require publicly funded research to be freely available. Below are links to descriptions of the requirements of some of the most important funders.The Swedish Research Council’s requirements for free access to research resultsSeventh Framework Programme (FP7)The Swedish Research Council FormasEuropean Research Council (ERC) requirements for free access to publications
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/services-and-support/publishing-and-registering/open-access/research-funders-requirements - 2025-07-07
Open Access journals are journals whose content is freely available to readers; publication costs are covered through a financial model other than subscription. More and more research fields are gaining good, open access alternatives for publishing as the number of OA journals increases. Find OA journalsThe Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the largest database of quality controlled OA j
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/services-and-support/publishing-and-registering/open-access/oa-journals - 2025-07-07
Self-archiving is a way of making publications that are published or accepted for publication freely available, and means that a full text version of the publication is uploaded to an institutional repository, a research database such as LUCRIS or another open archive. You have the right to self-archive all publications to which you own the copyright as well as publications that have been approved
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/services-and-support/publishing-and-registering/open-access/self-archiving - 2025-07-07
Four different scenarios Listed here are four situations, with slightly different conditions, in which you can use self-archiving to make your publications available in full text as well as how to do it. Contact your subject library for questions regarding self-archiving If you own the copyright to the publication Register it in LUCRIS and upload it as a PDF in the registration process. If you hav
In order for your publications to be made freely accessible in LUCRIS you need to own the copyright to them. Presented below are a few copyright-related starting points based on a rough classification of different types of publications. The purpose of copyright law is to balance the author’s protection needs against the user’s access needs. Therefore, the law is combined with reasonable exceptions
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/services-and-support/publishing-and-registering/open-access/self-archiving/copyright - 2025-07-07
Bibliometrics is the study of science and research with the help of mathematical and statistical methods. The University Library works with bibliometrics as a support function aimed at both university and faculty management, and at individual researchers and research groups, as well as the libraries within the Lund University Libraries network. Bibliometric services at Lund University can, essenti
https://www.lub.lu.se/en/services-and-support/publishing-and-registering/bibliometrics - 2025-07-07
Lund University’s research publications, for example articles, doctoral theses, conference papers, and reports, are collected in the LUCRIS research information system. In many cases, researchers can make their work freely accessible in full text. Registering and uploading your publication in LUPUse your Lucat account to log into LUCRIS and register your publications.More help and information can
Dissertation course Learn how to work in our thesis template. The course is currently held online, via Teams. Opening hours InstrumentmakaregrändenPlease note: Our visiting address has changed, but our location is the same.The reception is openMonday–Friday 9:00–15:00Closed for lunch 12:30–13:00Finished prints can be collectedMonday–Friday 8:00–16:00HS: 80Find: Instrumentmakaregränden 4 (map, new
https://www.mediatryck.lu.se/en/start-page - 2025-07-07
