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The Faculty of Law has gained access to the database Westlaw UK – Westlaw International and it is open to users on the university network. It contains a variety of legal sources, laws,… Read More » New database in law

The National Library of Iceland – University Library has been systematically collecting Icelandic websites since the fall of 2004. Our web archive is much more detailed in terms of… Read More » File types in the Icelandic web archive

Seminar on Eirík Magnússon, librarian in Cambridge (1833-1913) at the National Library on Saturday, April 20, 2013, 2-4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 2013… Read More » Seminar on Eirík Magnússon

The European cultural portal Europeana has now received a new interface that is intended to make it easier for users to access digital reproductions of collections from all over the world… Read More » New interface on Europeana

The annual meeting of the National Access to Electronic Databases and Journals will be held in the lecture hall of the National Library of Iceland – University Library, Arngrímsgata 3, 107 Reykjavík, on Friday… Read More » 7th annual meeting of the National Access to Electronic Databases and Journals, March 22, 2013

In March, open access to the Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles database from the Beginnings to the Present'… Read More » Orlando: Women's writing database

On Wednesday, February 20, Björn Þ. Axelsson handed over a Bible that once belonged to Elka Björnsdóttir, a worker in Reykjavík, but… Read More » Elka's Bible is being searched for

On January 24th, the official completion of the collaborative project between the National Library of Iceland, the University Library, and the Reykjavik People's House was celebrated.

This summer, Elsevier in Oxford published an eight-volume educational work on renewable energy, Comprehensive Renewable Energy. The work spans… Read More » Award for writing on geothermal energy

An exhibition about food and restaurant culture in Reykjavík in the first half of the 20th century will open at the National Library on Museum Night, at 8 p.m.… Read More » The Mountain Woman and the Reykjavík Kitchen