Dear Library Users,
Please note that our library portal will be tem-paw-rarily unavailable due to system maintenance on Friday, 18 September, from 6pm to 9.30pm.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and thank you for your patience and understanding!
Retrieving books from our closed stacks will take longer due to ongoing renovation & improvement works. Do cater an additional day or two for your requests to be fulfilled. We apologise for the inconvenience & appreciate your understanding. For assistance or queries, contact loans@nus.edu.sg.
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EBSCO AI-Assisted Search – Optional Feature for NUS Users
Effective 1 September 2026, EBSCO has made AI-Assisted Search available across applicable EBSCO interfaces.
For NUS users, AI-Assisted Search is turned off by default. Users who wish to use the feature may enable it individually by switching on the AI-Assisted Search toggle when conducting a search.
When enabled, AI-Assisted Search helps refine the user’s search query using related concepts and terms to support broader discovery of relevant content.
The existing standard EBSCO search remains available and unchanged.
For more information on how AI-Assisted Search works, please refer to EBSCO’s guide: Introducing EBSCO’s AI-Assisted Search.
You may also view this short tutorial: EBSCO's AI-Assisted Search
For any enquiries about access, please email clbfrm02@nus.edu.sg.
Institutionally Paid OA for NUS Authors
NUS Libraries, School of Computing, and the Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) have worked together to enter into a 5-year open access agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). For all submissions to ACM made between Jan 1, 2021 and Dec 31, 2025, NUS corresponding authors can publish OA at no cost to the author.
Library-Supported Free-to-Publish Model
NUS Libraries is now a supporting institution of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) from Sep 2020 to Sep 2021. The OLH is an academic publishing platform that supports 22 fully OA academic journals from across the humanities disciplines. Unlike many OA publishers, the OLH does not charge any author fees. Instead, an international library consortium covers its operational costs.
*Based on NUS Libraries’ internal analysis of compiled Web of Science data.
