Membership for remote access
Online registration/extension
Registration form
Registration information
Registration form
Registration for membership for remote access to EIR will provide you
- remote access to electronic information resources, including the Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences and other digitalised works unavailable on the market (the so-called Díla nedostupná na trhu)
- access to the full texts of documents direct from our catalogue and from the Portal of Electronic Journals and Books of the Library using the tool SFX and external links
- a user account for access to EIR without the necessity of further authentication, change of password and contact details, checking the validity of registration and the possibility of ordering and collecting in person copies of titles from the library collection that cannot be loaned off-site
- registration for 1 year without a reader’s pass
Necessary documents, fees
- legible digital copy of both sides of a valid residence permit issued by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic including the page of the given document giving an address in the Czech Republic / a legible digital copy of both sides of a valid Czech Republic identity card
- 280 CZK – one year (365 days)
For the successful completion of on-line registration/extension
- Attach legible digital copies of your valid residence permit issued by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (foreign nationals) or valid identity card (citizens of the Czech Republic) to your registration form. Essential particulars of the given document: forename and surname, date of birth and address in the Czech Republic, details on the given identity card consisting of its type, validity and number, which must be contained in all digital copies.
- Confirm your e-mail address and telephone as entered onto the form by e-mail or SMS text message in order for us to be able to verify the authenticity of the request submitted.
- Set your password using the link sent.
- Pay the registration fee from a Czech bank account whose name includes your forename and surname in order for us to be able to verify your identity.
Complete information on membership for remote access, online registration and its extension in the Library Rules.
On-line registration
Membership for remote access to electronic information resources (EIR) is designed exclusively for natural persons aged at least 15 with a residence permit issued by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic or permanent residence in the Czech Republic. Registration is valid for 1 year. A charge of 280 CZK must be paid by transfer from a Czech bank account whose name contains the forename and surname of the applicant.
Membership for remote access to EIR does not enable the use of the services of the study or the ordering of physical documents over a user account and their loan. If you are interested in these services, register in person at the library for off-site or on-site membership with a reader’s pass; you will also obtain remote access to EIR within the framework of such registration.
Procedure of on-line registration
You will obtain detailed information on the individual steps during the course of registration or its extension.
- Send your completed registration form.
- Confirm the validity of your e-mail address entered on the form.
- Confirm the validity of the telephone number entered on the form (and thereby confirm the authenticity of your request).
- We will then process your request during library opening hours and will then send you a message to let you know whether we have accepted it or not. We process requests during library opening hours within 60 minutes of confirmation of their authenticity or within 60 minutes of the opening of the library.
- If we accept your request
- Set your password (we will send your user name and a link by e-mail).
- Pay the registration fee.
- Following payment of the fee we will verify your identity by comparing the forename and surname entered onto the registration form with the forename and surname in the name of the account used to pay the registration fee, for which reason you should pay the fee from your own bank account, this within 14 days at the latest. We will perform the verification of your identity during library opening hours.
- If you do not pay the fee from your own bank account, we will return your payment and call on you to make a new payment from a bank account whose name contains your forename and surname. Should you fail to meet this condition within one week, we will erase your request and the entire process will be terminated without registration or its extension occurring due to the impossibility of verifying your identity.
- Wait for an e-mail on the successful completion of registration/extension.
- Begin taking advantage of remote access to EIR.
- If we do not accept your request
- You will receive an e-mail giving the grounds for the rejection of your request. Your request will also be erased along with all supplements and the entire process will be terminated without registration or its extension occurring.
- The most frequent reasons for the rejection of requests
- an identity document other than a residence permit giving an address in the Czech Republic or Czech Republic identity card is attached to the request
- certain particulars (most commonly the side with an address in the Czech Republic or the validity of the residence permit or one of the sides of the Czech Republic identity card) is entirely missing from the digital copies of the identity document attached to the request
- digital copies are not legible
- the attached identity document is not valid
- a request for extension is submitted more than a month before the end of the validity of registration
On-line extension of registration
Extension takes place in the same way as registration with the same conditions being met. The use of remote access is temporarily suspended during the processing of requests for extension. We therefore recommend that you make extension during library opening hours.
You may submit a request a month at the earliest before the end of the validity of your existing registration. You can check this date in your user account. We will also send you notification of the approaching end of the validity of your registration by e-mail 30 and 15 days in advance.
Membership for the staff of the Czech Academy of Sciences
We provide members of staff of the Czech Academy of Sciences with membership for 3 years (1095 days) free. Extension takes place in the same way as registration with the same conditions being met. The use of remote access is temporarily suspended during the processing of requests for extension. We therefore recommend that you make extension during library opening hours. You may submit a request a month at the earliest before the end of the validity of your existing registration. You can check this date in your user account. We will also send you notification of the approaching end of the validity of your registration by e-mail 30 and 15 days in advance.
For the successful completion of on-line registration/extension
- Provide proof of your employment with the Czech Academy of Sciences on your registration form in any of the given ways:
- enter your work e-mail address (an address with the domain of a unit of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and subsequently confirm its authenticity,
- or attach a digital copy of your employee’s pass,
- or attach a digital copy of a completed confirmation.
- Attach legible digital copies of your valid residence permit issued by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (foreign nationals) or valid identity card (citizens of the Czech Republic) to your registration form. Essential particulars of the given document: forename and surname, date of birth and address in the Czech Republic, details on the given identity card consisting of its type, validity and number, which must be contained in all digital copies.
- Confirm your e-mail address and telephone as entered onto the form by e-mail or SMS text message in order for us to be able to verify the authenticity of the request submitted.
- Set your password using the link sent.
Procedure of on-line registration/extension
You will obtain detailed information on the individual steps during the course of registration or its extension.
- Send your completed registration form.
- Confirm the validity of your e-mail address entered on the form.
- Confirm the validity of the telephone number entered on the form (and thereby confirm the authenticity of your request).
- We will then process your request during library opening hours and will then send you a message to let you know whether we have accepted it or not. We process requests during library opening hours within 60 minutes of confirmation of their authenticity or within 60 minutes of the opening of the library.
- If we accept your request
- Set your password (we will send your user name and a link by e-mail).
- Wait for an e-mail on the successful completion of registration/extension.
- Begin taking advantage of remote access to EIR.
- If we do not accept your request
- You will receive an e-mail giving the grounds for the rejection of your request. Your request will also be erased along with all supplements and the entire process will be terminated without registration or its extension occurring.
- Complete information on membership for remote access, online registration and its extension in the Library Rules.