Karolinum Press is first Czech publisher to link up with ebrary












            ******************************************************************************************

            *
            ******************************************************************************************
            Karolinum Press has become the first Czech publisher to link up with ebrary, the global di

            of specialist monographs in electronic form. Starting in April 2014, it will disseminate e
            university libraries. A total of sixty-seven e-books published by Karolinum Press are curr
            through ebrary. The list of available books includes fifty-seven titles in Czech, nine in 

            in German (list of available titles [ URL "http://www.cupress.cuni.cz/ink2_stat/index.jsp?
            list includes, for example, bestsellers by František Koukolík (Já. O mozku, vědomí a sebeu
            On the brain, awareness and self-awareness’); Před úsvitem, po ránu. Eseje o dětech a rodi

            dawn, after morning. Essays on children and parents’)) and the latest titles, including Hu
            pro učitele (‘Musical psychology for teachers’) and titles addressing current social issue

            Bezdomovectví jako alternativní existence mladých lidí (‘Homelessness as an alternative me
            for young people’).
            By the end of 2014 Karolinum Press plans to make over 200 titles available as e-books and 

            distribution in other libraries in both the Czech Republic and abroad.
            Members of the CU academic community can access individual titles at the Charles Universit
            Portal [ URL "http://pez.cuni.cz/prehled/zdroj.php?lang=en&id=603"] .





            ******************************************************************************************
            * How to read e-books in CU libraries
            ******************************************************************************************

            • off-line – books can be borrowed and downloaded bit-by-bit in PDF format,
            • e-books can be downloaded to any end device that supports Adobe Digital Editions,
            • individual titles can be borrowed for periods of up to fourteen days,

            • up to ten e-books can be borrowed at once by any one user,
            • books do not need to be returned after expiry of the loan period, but ‘return themselves
            • available on-line from CU IP addresses or via remote access (CAS [ URL "https://ldap1.cu

              switch?lang=en"] ),
            • multiple licences mean that several ‘specimens’ are available for borrowing,
            • downloaded books can be copied from a computer to up to five mobile devices,


            Ebrary [ URL "http://www.ebrary.com/corp/"] is a leading global distributor of electronic 
            currently offers more than 500,000 specialist titles in e-book form. The majority of title

            in English and come from renowned publishers (e.g. Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, W
            University Press, Sage, Springer, Taylor and Francis and so on).




            ******************************************************************************************

            * About Karolinum Press
            ******************************************************************************************
            Karolinum Press [ URL "http://www.cupress.cuni.cz/ink2_stat/index.jsp?jazyk=en"] was found

            and has so far published around 5,500 titles. Karolinum Press focuses primarily on teachin
            scientific monographs, as well as publishing twenty-seven specialist journals and almanacs
            represented at Charles University. Separate editorial projects include representative publ

            the history of Charles University, monographs on the history of art, language textbooks an
            interdisciplinary editions, which publish translations of works focusing on literary scien
            history. Another major project is the publishing of Czech fiction and its translation into

            as well as the publication of the works of Karel Šiktanec.