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A new virtual exhibition at the European Library showcases digitised materials related to scientific progress and discovery during the 19th and 20th centuries. Handwritten correspondence with Albert Einstein and videos of 1930s operating theatre, early x-ray images taken by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, portraits of pioneering researchers Marie and Pierre Curie and photographs of the…

The Iceland Consortium for Electronic Subscriptions – hvar.is recently made an agreement  with the publisher Springer to buy new e-books. Access to about 1,000 titles is already open, and about 2,000 more  will be added during the year. The books are in the following fields: Humanities, Social Science & Law; Business and Economics; Computer Science; Biomedical…

At the end of November the writer Pétur Gunnarsson handed over the manuscript and drafts of his novel Punktur punktur komma strik (Dot Dot Comma Dash). The novel was first published in 1976, was an immediate success and was, for example, taught in the country’s schools a year later. It follows the childhood and youth…

Wednesday 12th of December 2012 at 15:30 an exhibition will be opened in The National and University Library of Iceland celebrating the 100 years of novelist and playwright Thorbjørn Egner. The exhibition is in cooperation between The National and University Library of Iceland, The National Theatre of Iceland, The Theatre Museum of Iceland, The National…

On 6 December Félag bókagerðarmanna (the Icelandic union of book and print workers) gave the National and University Library of Iceland the so-called Bókbindarasafn (Bookbinding Collection). It holds books bound by hand by various bookbinders and marked with their names. It also includes additional material, such as bindings from well-known binderies, and professional books. The…

Last November 30, on the occasion of the library’s 18th anniversary, two new websites were formally inaugurated: Historical Maps of Iceland and Saga Translations. The first is in reality the oldest digital reproduction project of the library, starting in 1996. The website has been enhanced with a new interface and new and better digital reproductions…

To mark Icelandic Language Day, 16 November, we would like to point out that various information on the website Jonashallgrimsson.is has been updated.  This includes lists of Jónas’s works and of new editions of his writings.  The website’s news page has information on  new publications and events at various institutions (in Icelandic).   

The website of the publisher Springer, where almost 1,400 e-journals are open  nationwide, has a new interface. Users’ own areas, “MySpringerLink“, in the old interface  will NOT be moved to the new interface automatically, and account holders  are advised to make their own arrangements for the data stored there. You can create an account in the new interface…

On Wednesday 7 November a group of former heads of state institutions visited the Library to learn about its work. The group visited the Music and Audio-visual Collection, the National Collection and the Manuscript Collection, and saw the digitisation work in the photography studio.

We remind users on the University network of a trial access to Cambridge Books Online – eBooks covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences. The access is open to 10th of November. Handbook of Translation Studies which provides an easy access to a large range of…

The National and University Library of Iceland has signed the Berlin Declaration of Open Access.  Thereby the library confirms its policy on Open Access to publicly funded research. Further nformation List of participants 

The National and University Library of Iceland’s information site on open access, openaccess.is, has been closed temporarily. You can learn about open access on the following sites: http://www.opinnadgangur.is (Icelandic site on open access) http://www.open-access.dk/ (Danish site on open access) http://www.kb.se/openaccess/ (Swedish site on open access) http://www.openaccess.no/ (Norwegian site on open access) http://www.openaccess.fi/info/english.html (Finnish site on…