Library
The Institute’s library occupies the main floor of the Interdisciplinary Building. It provides a main reading room with seating capacity for 230 individuals. In addition, several group study rooms are available for 30 users. The library also provides access to Hemerotheca archives containing 100 volumes of specialized published periodicals organized in alphabetical order of the work’s title. The library at the Institute contains approximately 9,700 volumes. Material may be found according to engineering fields, physics, business administration, mathematics, as well as reference items, among others. ISEC provides access to online library services (b-on), thus offering a wide range of academic resources to the campus community. These include, among others, main publishers of international academic and scientific journals and magazines. This service aims to deliver world wide library and information services from main sources covering a broad range of academic fields, thus meeting the needs of the campus community. B-on provides access to over 3,500 electronic publications from six international reference publishers in the main fields of scientific and technological research.
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