ITMO Library
ITMO library is not just a library. It’s a multitude of books, ranging from specialized literature to fiction; an online catalog and up-to-date self-service solutions; well-equipped reading spaces and workplaces; subscriptions, online databases, and digital journals; useful services and resources; as well as seminars and meetings. It is everything you’ve ever wanted in a library and even more!
E-resources
On offer is a digital catalog of books for browsing and ordering, an open database of papers by ITMO students and researchers, and a free collection of educational and teaching aids by ITMO professors.
A slew of subscriptions is available for ITMO students and staff, including:
- Litres – a library of one million fiction & non-fiction ebooks and audiobooks in Russian and English;
- The Royal Society – a collection of cutting-edge research in analytics, economics, statistics, AI, data science, and more over the past 40 years;
- American Physical Society – a full-text database of journals by the American Physical Society on the topics of nuclear physics, high-energy physics, mechanics, and others;
- Bentham Journal Collection – Bentham Science’s collection of issues on chemistry, engineering, pharmaceuticals, social sciences, and more;
- Springer Nature and Springer eBook Collections – an archive of e-publications by Springer Nature.
As for open-source resources, you can have access to:
- Royal Society of Chemistry – a portfolio of 12 best open-source journals in chemical sciences;
- Wiley – around 230 gold and 1,300 hybrid journals by Wiley in the following fields: architecture, astronomy, medicine, mathematics, physics, ecology, and more;
- Taylor & Francis – more than 1,600 issues and 18,540 chapters in humanities, social sciences, politics and international law, geography, education, medicine, etc.
There are quite a few tools you can use for your research:
- Semantic Scholar – a database of open-source metadata;
- OpenAlex – a service filled with open-source data in five major categories: works, authors, institutions, venues, and concepts;
- The Lens – an open database of publications and patents, etc.
Services
- Personal page – your personal account where you can browse through the collection, request a specific book, and track your order;
- My Loft – remote access to the university’s scientific resources;
- Reservation service – booking meeting rooms for studying and events;
- ITMO SHARE – a free rental of tablets and laptops;
- ITMO CHARGE – a free rental of chargers;
- ITMO PRINT – a free printing service where you can print up to 50 pages per semester;
- OpenBooks – a catalog of the university’s educational aids;
- Self-service stations – an automated service for receiving and returning books;
- Storage lockers – for your belongings;
- Co-reading – a bookcrossing station;
- ITMO AUTHORS – a service to support your scientific publications.
How to join
Sign up on ISU, get your campus card, and register it as a library pass.
Contacts
- Email: library@itmo.ru
- Website: lib.itmo.ru/engmain
- VK: @itmo_library
- Telegram: @ITMO_Library
ITMO University, Lomonosova St. 9,
5th floor, room 1505
Open daily 9 AM - 9 PM