All CU FA libraries will be closed during public holidays on Friday 3 April and Monday 6 April.

The Jan Palach Library will be CLOSED on Friday, 27 March, due to the event Night with Andersen.
All loans and reservations from this library that would be due on this day have been extended until Monday, 30 March. No overdue fees will be charged for this day.

On Thursday, 12 March, the Historical Cabinet will be open from 2 to 5.30 pm (2 – 3 pm, only the loan desk will be available) due to an international workshop taking place.

CU now has permanent access to Brill’s encyclopaedic databases. The titles mainly focus on Theology and Far Eastern studies.You can find a list of them with links to the UKAŽ central discovery service by clicking on the post.

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.