In order to channel all Swedish university repositories (in our case, this is DiVA) into one sea of scholarly publications, SwePub will harvest these repositories each night and present them at one single place. The database SwePub, whose interface, if you have ever searched in LIBRIS, you might recognize, will thus contain bibliographic records of doctoral and licentiate theses, journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, research reports, editorship of anthologies, patents and artistic works from all but a few Swedish universities. However, if a bibliographic record in the university’s local repository is not registered correctly, it will not be incorporated into SwePub. Therefore, accuracy is rewarded by visibility!

Among the search functions, you can refine your searches by availability, publication type, content type (e.g. peer-reviewed, popular scientific etc.), author, university and more. Wherever there is a full text available you will of course get it by one click only.

Another feature included is that, having opened the bibliographic record, you can make a search for the publication in Google Scholar and Scirus, among other databases. There is also a connection to the citation databases of Web of Science, so citations are indicated whenever available.

SwePub is a product of a project, funded by the National Library of Sweden, and led by the universities of Uppsala, Lund and Gothenburg, in cooperation with the department of LIBRIS at the National Library. One of its main aims is to increase the amount of Swedish open access research publications.

Try SwePub – you might find yourself there!

If you want to experience the library in quite a different way than you are used to, why not come by the library on Thursday, the 26th of November.  It will be a day filled with activities, such as exhibitions, database demonstrations, games, and contests. Learn how to fold paper planes and eat cake, although, preferably not at the same time. You can also listen to pianist Kerstin Jansson, from Småland’s Music and Theatre, and later on, Mart Hallek and Håkan Molander, also from Småland’s Music and Theatre, perform “string music with folk music influences”.

Read more here.

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