News
The full texts at Taylor & Francis are temporarily not available for our university users right now. We are already in touch with T&F and solving the issue.
The List of available journals and books at MU service (also known as Publication Finder) is temporarily out of order. The producent is actually working on it.
The Newton One resources, that was out of order for past several months, is back in service. It is available for the students and employees of the Faculty of Social Studies only.
On Friday on 8th December between 21 p.m. and 22 p.m. is scheduled update of EZproxy (https://ezdroje.muni.cz/vzdaleny_pristup/ezproxy.php). This might cause the remote access to the electronic resources will not work properly and can be our of order for a short periods of time (several minutes). We would like to apologize for this.
As of September 2023, Web of Science also includes the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, the world's largest database of theses and dissertations, containing over 3 million full-text theses and 5 million citations.
From the beginning of 2023, MU users have access to a unique information resource - the SAGE Research Methods, which provides access to an extensive collection of information on quantitative, qualitative and combined research methods in sociology and social sciences.
Since the beginning of 2023, MU users have gained access to several new and very interesting electronic resources:
De Gruyter Journals Complete
A complete set of approximately 460 journals in all fields from De Gruyter
Oxford University Online – Full Collection
A complete set of about 500 journals from Oxford University Press (until now, MU has only had a sub-collection of journals in the humanities and social sciences)
SAGE Research Methods
a unique collection of resources on research methods in sociology and the social sciences
AACR Journals
High impact cancer research journals from the American Association for Cancer Research
CINAHL Plus with Fulltext
Nursing and allied health literature (in progress)
Springer eBook CompSci Collection
a collection of eBooks in computer science from Springer (includes the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science series)
STATISTA
Statistics, forecasts and infographics on the global digital economy, industry, markets and macroeconomic trends
D&B Global Financials
Info on financial results, including financial statements and financial analyses of economic entities from the Czech Republic (in solution)
From the beginning of 2023, our users will have access to the full suite of journals published by Oxford University Press, not just journals in the humanities and social sciences, as has been the case until now. In addition, authors from Masaryk University can publish in these journals in Open Access mode without any APC charges.
Masaryk university has temporary (to November 2nd) access to the full e-books collection from Taylor & Francis. The collection consists of ebooks from various subject areas: social sciences, environment, law, computer science, medicine, sports etc. Access to the resource. Note: users can view ebooks, download is not posssible.
ProQuest One Academic is a significant extension of the ProQuest Central content that MU subscribes to. It contains over 13,000 full-text journals, a multidisciplinary collection of 200,000 e-books, over 5 million doctoral theses, and over 66,000 scholarly videos in all disciplines. Trial access for MU users is open until March 27, 2022.
Deník N is now available in the PressReader menu. Deník N is also accessible retroactively from December 1st, 2021.
Since the beginning of 2022, Masaryk University has purchased access to the SciVal tool from Elsevier for evaluating the science and research outputs of research institutions and staff. It complements the similar tool InCites, which MU has been using for a long time.
From the beginning of 2022, MU users have access to PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), a journal published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of the world's most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals.
From November 1st, the titles Ekonom, Hospodářské noviny, and Respekt will not be available on the PressReader platform. The reason is the termination of the cooperation between the publisher Economia and PressReader Inc.
At the beginning of November 2021, MU's access to the Anopress media information resource ended. Those interested in news information can use PressReader as a substitute, or use the Anopress resource in the Moravian Library (users registered in the MZK including remote access).
From 1st December 2021, the Faculty of Social Sciences MU will subscribe to a new news information source Newton One covering both Czech and Slovak media. However, access will be limited to FSS MU users only.
The Economist Historical Archive has been extended to all issues from 2016 to 2020.
Until the end of 2021, free access to the Artstor digital image library was extended for MU users. The library offers 3 million images from the world's leading museums, photo galleries, artists and scientists.
PressReader access has been extened to 3rd of March 2022. PressReader Radiant Access has been extended to 30 days.
Masaryk University received a one-year free access to the Project Syndicate information resource offering opinion journalism from the world's media from leading commentators.
Until 14 December 2020, MU users have access to more than 3,000 e-books from various disciplines from the prestigious scientific publishing house MIT Press. More information here.
The "COVID" subscriptions we had till the end of May has been extented to the end of June 2020 (and might be extened again after this date):
- Oxford University Press e-books - Cambridge University e-books - Taylor & Francis e-books
Besides these collections we are negotiating access to the MIT e-books.
On Tuesday 28th April 2020 during evening hours the authetication method for remote accessing of electronic information resources (method EZproxy) will be changed. Users will be redirected to the new university single sign on and will be asked for primary password. The remote access functionality wil not change and users can work as they were used to before.
On the "Closed Libraries Will Not Stop You" website, news on online information resources and tips for self-study of MU students during the coronavirus epidemic are continually published.
Library of the University Campus have prepared instructions for using electronic books via the discovery.muni service. Instructions can be found at https://is.muni.cz/do/sukb/kuk/navody/eknihy/.
New version of Portal EIZ was launched at 15th February 2019. The list of the new features:
- new university web pages design
- support for mobile devices (phones, tablets)
- users have not to choose appropriate links for the remote access
- the Portal EIZ chooses the right link automatically according the network a user is coming from
- help and instructions update
Due to the system maintenance the ProQuest databases including Alexander Street, Intota Assesment and RefWorks will be out of order
between 4 and 12 a.m. on 20th January 2019. We apologize for any inconvinience.
Users can experience the troubles when using EZproxy in the Microsoft Edge browser (formerly it was called Microsoft Explorer). in such case (the EZproxy does not allow you to use electronic information resources and reports the "cookies" errors), please use different browser (Chrome, Firefox).
All of the databases provided by Wiley have known issue which causes the full text availability information can be wrong - a lof of content is marked as full text available for the users, however, the university does not subscribe such content and users cannot get the full text finally. Please be patient, this should be corrected during next update. You can use Full Text Finder at Masaryk university, which tells you if the full text is available or not - see the link "Find fulltext at Masaryk University" at any article/chapter landing page at Wiley.
Log in via Shibboleth for Wiley Online Library has been corrected. Users at masaryk University can use WAYFless link.
We would like to apologize for the non-functional Shibboleth log in at Wiley. Use the EZproxy http://ezproxy.muni.cz/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ remote access method instead, please. We are in touch with Wiley and trying to get the Shibboleth login back.
SAGE Publishing Group will give all their journal for free in April. Users just have to have personal account to get the content. Please feel free to register (https://journals.sagepub.com/action/registration) and activate you acces at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/help/globalftsoc18
List of available titles is at http://journals.sagepub.com/action/showPublications.
The service discovery.muni.cz is dow right now, due to software maintanance at the distributor side (EBSCo company). The service should be back in 2 - 3 hours.
There is significant update for ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - users can access all full text now (it was first 24 pages before).
Due to the change of the certification authority for the certificates used for VPN servers, users have to dowload and update new configuration file. Instructions and the new configuration file could be found at http://vpn.muni.cz/.
We have arranged a two-month trial access to Emerald Insight database with more than 300 e-journals, starting on March 13, 2017.
Emerald journals are featured in the world-recognized indexes: 61 journals are indexed in ISI, more than 190 titles are indexed in Emerging Source Citation Index and more than 260 in Scopus.
Emerald is a global publisher providing quality, peer-reviewed research in the fields as of Business, Management & Strategy; Library Studies; Information & Knowledge Management including Science Technology; Social Sciences; Public Policy; Environmental management; Marketing; HR, Learning & Organizational Studies; Education; Finance, Accounting & Economics; Operations, Logistics &
Quality; Tourism and Hospitality, Health and Social Care, but also technical fields such as Engineering (including Electrical, Mechanical Engineering; Computing and Modeling a Property Management & Build Environment).
The Single Sign On via Shibboleth is working now. The users could log in to their personal accounts and migrate their former accounts (they will be asked after first log in).
Resource ebrary has changed the web design and name to the Ebook Central (ProQuest). The content of the resource is not changed. The former ebrary URLs should be working, however, we recommend to update (e.g. in your bookmarks) the former http://site.ebrary.com/lib/masaryk/ to the new . If you are accesing the resource via links here at the EIZ Portal, you do not need to do any actions, the links are already updated.
By now, the Single Sign On to your personal accounts via Shibboleth is not working. We will inform you as soon as the Shibboleth SSO will be available.
SAGE Journals has migrated to the new web platform - the major change is the web design which should better works on mobile devices. The former web platform will be shut down by the end of the year 2016. All the links here at the Portal has already been updated and directed to the new platform (including remote access via Shibboleth).
We would like to announce that we are going to change the login page visual style for the EZproxy and Shibboleth (services used for remote access to the electronic information resources) on the 24th May 2016. The only visual style will be changed and the functionality of the services will not be affected. The comparison of the old and new visual styles are available at URL https://wiki.ics.muni.cz/poskytovatel_identit/login.
The service Full Text Finder has been launched and replaces the former service LinkSource. Both LinkSource and Full Text Finder serves aa full text availability check services and for searching for the links to the full texts. From a user point of view there is no difference in use, however, the branding has been changed.
LinkSource icon has been replaced by the Full Text Finder icon .
The linking icons at variable resource sites (Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed) has changed slightly.
More information about the Full Text Finder service could be found here at the Portal.
Proxy service for remote access to electronic information resources is going to be discontinued on 31st January 2016. Users are recommended to use other technologies for the remote access (EZproxy, OpenVPN, Shibboleth).
Users, who have already set up the proxy. have to remove the proxy settings out of their browser(s) according tho the instructions here.
The proxy discontinuation does not affect the users accessing the proxy from The University Hospital in Brno.
This webinar is available in czech language only.
Shibboleth users that are logging into JSTOR for the first time (e.g. new accounts) may experience between a 5-30 minute delay in being authenticated. We recommend that if users have this experience, they come back to JSTOR and login again after 30 minutes has past. At that point, they should gain access immediately.
We would like to inform the users that the log in to the ScienceDirect and Scopus via Shibboleth may fail. This is not happening always, however, it may occur from time to time (the log in process ends up with opensaml::FatalProfileException message). We are investigating the issue toghether with Elsevier (Scopus and ScienceDirect provider). We kindly ask users who encounter this issue to use alternative remote access method.
You can register for the JCR platform webinar at https://thomsonscientific.webex.com/thomsonscientific/k2/j.php?MTID=t61112ff677a2a76c5b6b211d63330e10 (at least 5 minutes before beginning).
Users that are using direct access to the electronic information resources via Shibboleth (https://ezdroje.muni.cz/vzdaleny_pristup/shibboleth.php?lang=en) will be asked to give their confirmation on personal data sending since today. Personal data are related to e.g. the faculty that users are members of etc. Users will be asked only once during the first log in attempt. This is the planned change for the Shibboleth technology. Please spend a while read the confirmation form.
The webinar is available in czech language only.
The service S.F.X. is going to be shutted down by 15. 9. 2014. This service is replaced by the LinkSource service. The corresponding services Electronic resources portal and Citation Linker is going to be shutted down too. They are replaced by the Electronic resources portal (A-to-Z) and Citation Locator (both are modules of the Discovery.muni service).
Springer supports to log in via Shibboleth technology. Users from Masaryk University can use their UCO and secondary password to log in directly here or on the Springer web (up in the right corner via Sign Up / Login -> Institutional / Athens Login -> ... find your institution (via Shibboleth) -> Masaryk University Central Library).
Masaryk University has launched a new discovery service: EDS (EBSCO Discovery Service). The service is available at http://discovery.muni.cz/ and provides a single point for searching almost all of the electronic resources and databases which are subscribed by Masaryk University. EDS works on the same principles as common internet search engines do: searching a central index - the greatest advantage of this aproach is speed (compared to the former Metalib service the EDS is significantly faster). If you want to learn more please check the online help available from the EDS's pages, link Help (EN) at the top right corner.
Services Metalib and S.F.X. will be available for now, but are going to be switched off in near future.
Elsevier anounced that their databases (Scopus, ScienceDirect) will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on 20th July on Saturday. It is also possible that users may experience service disruptions such as slower response times and
unexpected outages throughout the day.
This week logging to the personal accounts via Shibboleth has been enabled at ebrary. Please use your UCO and secondary password to sign in. The user, who want to migrate her/his old account to the Shibboleth one, should follow these instructions:
- sign in to your personal account via Shibboleth (use your UCO and secondary password)
- choose Technical support link at the bottom of the page
- fill in the form
- fill in the mandatory fields (your name, surname and e-mail)
- as a User type choose "Library user"
- fill in the Subject with "Bookshelf migration request"
- Describe details should look like
"Please migrate my old account to the Sibboleth one. Here are my old account details:
User name: <your user name used for your old account>
User email: <the e-mail you used to register your old account>
Institution: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic" - in case you do not remember your old user name, please tell it in the Describe details too
- submit the form
- ebrary technical support should response and migrate your account within 2 business days
If you have any troubles with migrating your old account do not hesitate to contact us.
We have to announce that we fall back to default ebrary login system. The issues with the connection to the university login system is still not solved on ebrary side. We are apologizing for it.
We please users to be patient - log in to ebrary site does not work now. We are intensivelly solving the issue.
Follow the URL http://sfx.muni.cz/sfxlcl3/azbook/MUNI to search for electronic books available at Masaryk University.
Recently the security mechanism used by VPN (pptp) technology was broken, the MS-CHAPv2 protocol is broken (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/31/ms_chapv2_crack/).
We do not recommend to use VPN further. ICS MU is preparing new technology
(OpenVPN) for the remote access. Before the OpenVPN will be ready to use,
please use only the proxy, EZproxy and Shibboleth to remote connect to the
information resources.
MU gets an access to multidomain electronic books database by EBSCO (the access ends up on April 24th 2012). You can read this ebooks online (as usual) and in addtions you can also download the book to your computer or mobile device and read the books offline. Detail information.
Metalib and SFX can be unavailable during this weekend. We are going to perform several test - the reason is suspicious attack on the servers. We apologize for it.
metalib server has been successfully hacked and for some time will be runned without full functionality (e-mail service). We apologize for it.
Access to the Anopress is now limited. The reason is a massive aggregate downloads of articles which exhausts the limits for Masaryk University. Please do not use aggregate dowloads of hundreds of articles - the result is inaccessibility of the resource for the whole university.
We are working on the issue and we will try to make the resource fully accessible as soon as possible.
In the next 6 day we are going to migrate Metalib service to the new server. During this time Metalib can be unaccesibble for short periods of time or might not be fully functionable. We apologize for it. Thank you for patience.
Masaryk University can access a new mighty search engine Primo (trial version, available to the end of October 2011). Primo is a produced by ExLibris and is configured to search electronic information resources available at MU (including fulltexts). Primo is a competitor to search engine EDS (EBSCO) that was introduced in June.
Both tools are now accessible using the simple forms at the Portal's homepage.
The distributor has prolonged the bX service trial version up to 3 months. The service will be available till the end of the May 2011. Mor information about the service in the previous news.
bX service has been set up in SFX. bX service is a service for recomending similar documents (journals, books) that users search for in context of given document. So if a user is searching for a book, bX service gives a hint "Users who searched for this book also search these ones". It is similar like at Amazon.com ("Customers who bought this item also bought...").
bX services is in trial version only and will be available till the end of March.
You can test the service via Electronic journals portal or you can use directly this link: http://sfx.muni.cz/sfxlcl3?isbn=978-0-02-865887-2
SFX service has been activated in PubMed. Now you can simply search for available fulltexts by clicking on the button . The button can be found on the right top corner at page with detail information about a searched article.
To activate this service you have to use the prepared links or you can go directly from here. Service works correctly only in MU network (or via Remote access).
We had Metalib and S.F.X. server failure last week. Metalib and S.F.X. is running at the backup server now and we are going to transfer them to the new server. This might cause longer unavailibility of these services. Please, apologize us. The final transfer of Metalib and S.F.X. should be finished at last by the end of this week.
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