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Digital Library of the CAS

The Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences contains digitised periodicals and monographs produced by the institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and their predecessors. These documents are mostly the result of digitisation in our Digitisation Centre.

In addition to digitized documents, it also contains publications created only in digital form (born-digital documents), mainly newer articles from professional periodicals and electronic monographs published by CAS institutions. The long-term goal of the digitisation strategy of the KNAV is to make all documents published by any of the units of the CAS accessible through the digital library.

Access to documents

The documents are available in three modes in the digital library:

After logging in

For logged-in users, the so-called. Unavailable works on the market (DNNT). These are works that are still protected by copyright law, but are made available on the basis of a licence agreement between the National Library of the Czech Republic and the collective administrators DILIA and OOA-S and with the consent of the Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers. In order for us to make a work available, it must be listed on the Unavailable Works List. Within DNNT you can view monographs published before 2003 and periodicals published before 2013. These documents are available for reading only and due to copyright protection, downloading and printing are not allowed. In addition, readers logged in with an account of a specific department of the CAS can access documents under the license of their department and documents under the common license "Departments of the CAS".

In the library

In the library Documents that are not covered by any licence are only available on computers in the library study room. These computers have limited internet access, which means that documents cannot be downloaded. In addition to these documents, other materials, including monographs published before 2003, are also available on dedicated computers in the study room and are available under the DNNT licence. Help is provided for users for more detailed information and an overview of the digital library's features.

The Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences is involved in the Czech Digital Library, which is a national aggregator of digital libraries. Its aim is to gradually involve all digital libraries in the Czech Republic operated in Kramerius system and thus enable easy access to digital documents from various memory institutions from one place.

Through the Czech Digital Library, documents are harvested into a digital library Europeanawhich provides access to millions of cultural heritage objects from institutions across Europe.

Czech Digital Library

Inclusion of the journal in the Digital Library of the CAS

Our digital library includes mainly journals published by institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and affiliated scientific societies or journals that send data to the CEJSH database via the Library of the CAS.

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Mandatory submission of electronic documents

For the purpose of collecting and long-term archiving of electronic publications issued by the departments of the CAS, individual departments of the CAS are obliged to hand over electronic publications to the Library of the CAS.
In this way, we ensure that all valuable scientific materials are safely preserved and easily accessible for future generations of researchers and those interested in science.