On Sunday 14 December, from 4 am to approximately 6 am, maintenance will be carried out on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform. During this time, no content on the platform will be accessible.
For technical reasons, this downtime will not be reflected by hiding affected e-books in the UKAŽ discovery system. If you need access to a specific title during the early morning maintenance period, you can download the book or chapter in advance (if a download option is available).
Until 24 December Charles University has a trial to the Drama Texts Collection database. This database provides to over 6,000 texts of dramatic works in English, along with related ephemeral materials, theater flyers, theater diagrams, and photographs. The Drama Texts Collection includes all dramatic texts from the Alexander Street and Chadwyck Healey collections.
All CU FA libraries will be closed from 20 December to 4 January.
During this period, we will also not be processing requests for Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) documents from the “ProQuest Ebook Central: Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles” collection.
Until 31 December, Charles University has trial access to 28 encyclopedias and encyclopedic databases from Brill.Access to the databases is available via the eResources Portal. Go to The trial includes the following encyclopedias and encyclopedic databases, primarily in the fields of theology and Asian studies:
Until 2 December, CU has trial access to the APA PsycBooks and APA PsycTests databases from the American Psychological Association.
PsycBooks offers over 4,600 books, including reference works and classic titles; PsycTests provides thousands of psychological tests, measurement tools, and questionnaires with detailed information on methodology and validity.
Access to the databases is available via the eResources Portal.
On Monday, 17 November, a public holiday, and on Tuesday, 18 November, during the Dean’s Sports Day, all libraries will be CLOSED.
Lean Library is a browser extension that detects whether the university provides access to the article or e-book you’re looking for and automatically offers login via EZproxy or another available access option (including print alternatives available at Charles University). The extension is useful both on and off the university network – for example, when searching for articles through Google, Google Scholar, or directly on publishers’ websites.
You can find installation instructions by clicking on this post.
The Jan Palach Library will be open on Monday, 27 October, from 9 am to 5 pm.
On Tuesday, 28 October, a national public holiday, all CU FA libraries will be CLOSED.
From 14 to 18 July, a large international conference will be held at the CU FA main building, and to ensure safety, the management of CU FA has taken several precautions. On these days, the public will not be allowed to enter the main building.
Students and employees are not subject to this restriction, but they can be asked by security staff about the purpose of their visit. Therefore, students and staff must carry their student and staff ID cards with them when entering the building.
From the evening hours of Friday 11 July to Sunday 13 July (inc.), there will be an outage of the library systems due to server migration. The following systems will be out of order: UKAŽ, the eResources Portal and the Electronic application for the use of the CU libraries services.
The conference Engaging with Conspiracy Theories, Fostering Democracy: Dynamics, Drivers and Defenses will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on April 9 and 10, 2026.
The first drill takes place on Wednesday, 26. 11. 2025, at the Sweerts-Sporck Palace, starting at 10:00 AM. The second drill will take place a week later, on Wednesday, 3. 12. 2025, also starting at 10:00 AM, in the main CU FA building at Jan Palach Square.
Humanities Week will take place from Monday, 17. 11., until Friday, 21. 11. 2025, and will offer a rich programme full of lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and other interesting events. The main program at CU FA will take place in the main building at náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2 and is suitable for the general public, high school students and their teachers, as well as academics.
Charles University is pleased to offer an online onboarding course designed to support newly admitted international students in their transition to university life. Sessions are held every Wednesday online and are open to both full-degree and Erasmus students.
The honorary doctorate will recognize not only more than thirty years of academic and journalistic work of Professor Garton Ash, but also his social attitudes, which are an inspiring and important voice for Central and Eastern Europe’s future direction, especially in the difficult period the regions are going through.
You are kindly invited to two unique academic events marking the launch of the COLUMN project (Colonial Past of Universities: Materiality and New Forms of Cooperation): a lecture by Prof. Loretta Feris and the premiere screening of the documentary film UnRest.
Renowned political scientist Robert L. Funk from the University of Chile will explore the leading candidates, the key issues shaping the campaigns, and what is at stake for Chilean democracy.
Prof. Paul Chaisty, a leading researcher in area studies and political science specializing in Russia and Ukraine, is offering a block seminar entitled Area Studies for Researchers: Opportunities, Challenges, and Controversies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, for the 2025/2026 academic year.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will participate in the newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).
