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The University Library is within walking distance of central Lund, the main train station, and most of the campus area. It takes about ten minutes to walk from Lund central station to the University Library. Getting here by public transportTake city bus seven from Lund's central station towards Östra Torn and get off at the Biskopshuset stop. Plan your trip using the Skånetrafiken website (in Swed
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/contact/getting-here - 2026-10-01
The page links to Lund University's people and address directory. Library Director and Office Library Director Håkan CarlssonLibrary Office Departments CollectionsITLibrary ServicesLegal Deposit and MetadataPreservation and DigitisationScholarly Communication Find staff in the University's people and address directory
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/contact/find-staff - 2026-10-01
Finn, finn.lub.lu.se, is run by the University Library of Lund University. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website, and this document describes how Finn complies with the accessibility regulations, any known accessibility issues, and how you can report problems so that we can fix them.How accessible is Finn?We know some parts of Finn aren't fully accessible. See the secti
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/accessibility-finn - 2026-10-01
The International Dialogue Project was initiated in 1978 by the geographers Anne Buttimer and Torsten Hägerstrand to explore alternative means to communicate across disciplines and diverse fields of interest. They argued that the increasing specialization and fragmentation of knowledge posed an ever-growing barrier to appropriately respond to societal challenges.It has always been my ambition to o
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/find/digital-collections/dialogue-project - 2026-10-01
Four themed collections to experience in the library Our public collection on the entrance floor has four themed displays. They showcase samples from the library's diverse and unique collections. Feel free to check them out. The items on the shelves are available for reading within the library, and you cannot borrow them. We hope that you will discover something new in our themed collections. The
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/about-lund-university-library/themed-collections - 2026-10-01
Through national publisher agreements, researchers at Lund University can publish open access in many journals at reduced cost or with fully covered fees, while benefiting from simplified administration. This page lists all publishers with current agreements, along with brief information and publication conditions. The agreements cover author fees but do not include extra costs for additional page
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/publish/open-access/publishing-agreements-and-discounts/current-agreements - 2026-10-01
An overview of publication patterns and publishing costs The University Library monitors the proportion of open-access academic publications authored by researchers and doctoral students at Lund University on an annual basis. The aim is to provide an overall picture of the proportion of the university's research that has been published as open access, i.e. freely available online without subscript
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/open-access-lund-university-2024 - 2026-10-01
9 May 2026 10:00 to 28 February 2027 15:00 | Exhibition Are you curious about science? Do you appreciate the Lund student carnival tradition? Then you are more than welcome to the University Library’s new exhibition! Here you’ll experience science and humour in an unexpected combination. The University Library has recently rediscovered its copy of Nicolaus Copernicus’s famous work “On the Revoluti
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/calendar/freedom-thought-copernicus-celestial-carnival - 2026-10-01
19 April 2027 08:00 to 24 April 2027 17:00 | Save the date! Sustainability Week is back 19-24 April, 2027 Don’t miss the annual Sustainability Week, where we explore sustainability issues from ecological, economic and social perspectives through a variety of panel discussions, talks, workshops, exhibitions and cultural events.The week is made in collaboration between Lund University and Lund Munic
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/calendar/sustainability-week-2027 - 2026-10-01
National agreements with academic publishers are undergoing changes. This affects both access to academic articles and the terms and conditions of publication. Here is an overview of the background, what is changing and what this might mean in practice. Publisher agreements – access and open access publishingStaff at Lund University have access to academic journals and the opportunity to publish o
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/publish/open-access/changes-agreements-academic-publishers - 2026-10-01
6 October 2026 16:00 to 18:00 | Do you like to read and meet new people? Take the opportunity to join our new book club! Fully Booked | Registration ClosedRead & Meet is a free book club for students at Lund University, organised by the university libraries.This semester, we will read a book in English and meet throughout the semester to talk about it. The book we're going to read is ALL MY LOVE b
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/calendar/kick-new-book-club - 2026-10-01
9 February 2027 08:30 to 17:30 | Conference Welcome to the 6th research conference on sustainable development, with the focus on synergies and/or conflicts between preparedness and sustainable development. Conflict and sustainabilityAs the world faces accelerating climate impacts, geopolitical instability, and growing pressure on resources, tensions are increasing over how best to adapt to and pro
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/calendar/knowledge-sustainable-development-2027-our-shared-future-conflict-and-sustainability - 2026-10-01
11 November 2026 09:00 to 12:00 | Seminar As we approach 2030, significant challenges remain in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet global efforts towards a sustainable future will not end with the current 2030 Agenda. On the contrary, the need for continued engagement, perhaps in new forms, will become even more pressing. Please register before 4th of November at Post-Agenda 2030 – W
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/calendar/post-agenda-2030-what-happens-next - 2026-10-01
19 October 2026 12:00 to 23 October 2026 13:00 | 19-25 October is International Open Access Week. At Lund University Library, this is celebrated with a number of presentations about local open access initiatives. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions. No registration, all are welcome! Mon 19/10,12:00-13:00 Aliaksei Laureshyn: Traffic Safety Research - From hobby project to The
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/calendar/open-access-week-lund-university-library - 2026-10-01
The printed ephemera is arranged chronologically by publisher. When searching for your request, we need to know the time and the publisher. Please specify only one publisher per request.We will contact you when the material is available in the Special Collections Reading Room, normally within one week. Title/description (required) Publisher/source (required) Year/time period (required) Other descr
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/form/ephemera-request - 2026-10-01
Search older literature at the University Library Catalogue -1957 is a card catalogue listing Lund University Library’s holdings up to 1957. Literature printed before 1800 is listed here and, to a large extent, in the Finn search tool and can be requested there. Only a smaller section is recorded in Finn from 1800 to 1957.Catalogue -1957 is also available for searches and requests through the net.
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/catalogue-1957 - 2026-10-01
We have large collections of manuscripts and archives. Most of them are searchable online. Some of the special collections can only be searched in catalogues and other finding aids placed in the Special Collections Reading Room. Alvin is a search portal for cultural heritage collections such as manuscripts, personal archives, images, maps and older printed material. Lund University Library is cont
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/find/manuscripts-and-archives - 2026-10-01
The De la Gardie Archive is one of the largest archives in Sweden. It contains material from the period 1520-1850 and amounts to about 200 shelf meters, half of which consists of some 20 family archives. The other half contains historical and topographical documents, parchment letters and bound manuscripts on different subjects. A map collection and a collection of portrait engravings are also inc
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/find/digital-collections/de-la-gardie-archive - 2026-10-01
Unique manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan The Jarring Collection consists of 560 manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan, today's Chinese province of Xinjiang. The books date from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The collection not only mirrors Eastern Turkestan society and culture with its classic and folk literature, Islamic religious manuscripts, judicial and historic documents, manuals of medicine,
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/en/find/digital-collections/jarring-collection - 2026-10-01
The University Library holds original maps from the 15th century to the present. We also have most Swedish maps and map series. You can search the University Library's atlases, road atlases, and major map series using the Finn search tool. Still, you cannot see which map sheets are available at the University Library.Search our atlases in FinnYou can search our old atlases in the Catalogue -1957 u
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/find/maps - 2026-10-01
