Biblioteka Główna
Politechniki Warszawskiej

The Main Library, branch libraries and student residence libraries will be closed from 8 to 11 June (Thursday to Sunday)

We invite you to visit our library on 12 June (Monday).

Survey by the Polish Chamber of Books - use of scientific books
Polish Chamber of Books is conducting a nationwide survey aimed at diagnosing the ways in which academics and students use textbooks and scientific monographs.

We encourage you to fill in an anonymous questionnaire (takes a maximum of 5 minutes) and to express your opinion on the expected access to scientific sources necessary for research, teaching and education.

• Survey for academics
• Survey for students
  
  

Warsaw University of Technology has been given trial access to the multidisciplinary Gale Research Complete database. The database allows users at all academic levels, from students to experienced researchers, to access a suite of raw as well as secondary data, covering research areas:

• Biology Chemistry
• Criminal Justice
• Economics
• Environmental Science
• History
• Marketing
• Political Science
• Psychology.

Gale Research Complete includes collections such as: Gale Academic OneFile, Gale eBooks, Gale General OneFile, Gale Business and Gale OneFile News, consisting of:

• More than 29,000 journals, including more than 4,300 JCR Impact Factor scientific list titles (for example: full texts of The Economist - without embargo - (from 1988 to the present); The New York Times (from 1985 to the present); The Times and Financial Times;
• More than 1,900 e-Book editions (more than 4,000 volumes), including award-winning encyclopedias and directories;
• More than 16 million pages of historical sources from the 13th to the 21st centuries;
• More than 2.5 million full-text items of literary works and literary criticism.

Access will be active until the end of the year for all users from computers on the PW network and from any computer for users registered in the PW integrated library system.
Please send feedback on the databases via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The library training for the 1st year students is conducted in an electronic way on the WUT Moodle platform.
The Library Training Course will be available: March 25 - April 30, 2023  (for all students who study in English as the language of instruction).
The training is obligatory. To log in, follow the instruction below:

• Select „If you have an account in the University Study Oriented System (USOS)” option
• Log in using your USOSWeb account
• The login and the password are the same as in the USOSWeb
• Enter your login: PESEL number or email address used in the registration portal (or other ID from the Dean’s Office of your faculty if you do not have the PESEL number)
• Enter your password to USOSWeb. Students who log in for the first time have to enter the password from the “Registration portal for Warsaw University of Technology study candidates”. If you have forgotten the password, try to recover it on your own. If you have not succeeded in recovering the password, please contact your Deans’ Office
• Select "Library training" course

Students who:

• have not been automatically enrolled in the course
• have not completed the course in previous years

can register for the course themselves. Log in to USOS and register for the course via LINK

After registration in the USOS, the course will be available on the platform the next day.
If you need help or assistance on Moodle platform, contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If you have any questions about the course please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Warsaw University of Technology has been given trial access to the  e-book database by Cambridge University Press.
The publisher, in collaboration with authors and academics, publishes a range of relevant, up-to-date and valuable textbooks designed to support the needs of lecturers and students across a wide range of topics.
Trial access includes titles on topics such as:

• Art 
• Business and Management
• Chemistry
• Computer Science 
• Earth and Environmental Sciences 
• Engineering 
• General Science
• Health and Medicine 
• Language and Linguistics 
• Law 
• Mathematics 
• Philosophy 
• Physics and Astronomy
• Politics and International Relations

 
Trial access includes all textbooks (except those with a "coming soon" designation).  
Online access to the selected textbook works without logging in (after you are prompted to log in, click "continue with read-only access") while using additional options such as taking notes, circling, copying and printing parts of the text, downloading files to your device, and working offline, you need to create a free account for yourself (using an email with the domain pw.edu.pl) and log in.  
There is also a mobile application Cambridge Spiral, which allows you to work offline with textbooks added to our virtual shelf. The app can be downloaded from Google Play store and App Store.  
 
Access will be active until March 31, 2023, for all users from computers on the PW network and from any computer for users registered in the PW integrated library system.
All opinions about this database can be sent by the form.

Trial access to the Oxford University Press Databases

Warsaw University of Technology has been given trial access to the selected databases of the Oxford University Press: Oxford Bibliographies Online and Oxford Academic ( within this database access to: University Press Scholarship Online (including Oxford Scholarship), Oxford Handbooks Online and Very Short Introductions).

1. Oxford Bibliographies Online - this database contains expert recommendations on the best scientific papers available in 40 subject areas. This resource enables students, researchers and professionals to get up-to-date information on new theories, ideas, interpretations and empirical discoveries in their chosen field. 
2. Oxford Academic - is the research platform of Oxford University Press (OUP), offering access to academic and scholarly books and journals. Oxford Academic resources include three million journal articles, 400,000 book chapters and two million images and multimedia. Oxford Academic's databases include:
   • University Press Scholarship Online, is nearly 2,000 monographs from prestigious university publishers such as Oxford, MIT, Yale and Stanford in the areas of management, finance and economics.
   • Very Short Introductions - A collection of very short introductions to a wide range of topics, written by experts who combine facts, analysis to make difficult topics more readable and accessible to everyone
   • Oxford HandbooksOxford Handbooks - One of the most prestigious collections of scholarly books, providing in-depth analysis of the topics covered.

The trial access will be active until December 31, 2022

Please send your opinions on the databases using the questionnaire.

Pursuant to the Rector's Order No. 41/2022, the library point in Żaczek Students’ Hall of Residence will be closed as of 1 July 2022. The collection will be moved to a branch of the Main Library – Library of Southern Campus, 86 Narbutta Street, where it will also be possible to return books borrowed from the Żaczek library point.

Main Library & branches

Other WUT libraries

The Main Library invites you to visit the publisher's website Cambridge University Press (CUP), which allows access to about 160 journals included in the STM collection (Science, Technology, Medicine) - List of titles in the CUP license - excel, STM tab.
The collection includes current and archival issues of magazines in the field of:

• Economics
• Engineering
• Mathematics
• Materials Science
• Medicine
• Physics and Astronomy

Instructional video:

Access to the database is possible:
- from university computers network - without logging
- from other computers (outside university network) – available only for users registered to WUT Main Library

Please send your opinions on the databases using the questionnaire.

The Main Library has expanded its collection of electronic resources with three more databases:

JoVE - peer-reviewed scientific journal in the form of a video in the field of biology, chemistry, medicine, biotechnology, psychology and related fields, indexed in PubMed and Web of Science. The Warsaw University of Technology has access to four thematic collections: chemistry, environment, engineering and physics.
Online training

Total Materia - material properties data database. Total Metals module contains over 350,000 metallic alloys with a range of unique additional modules perfectly designed to meet engineering needs.

STATISTA - one of the world's largest statistics and market data platforms, providing access to over 1.5 million statistics, forecasts, documentation, reports and infographics on 80,000 topics from over 22,500 sources. The platform is a collection of data on the economy, consumer needs, opinion polls and demographic trends. All data can be downloaded in seconds and is available in a variety of formats.

Please send your opinions on the databases using the questionnaire

Warsaw University of Technology has been given trial access to the O'Reilly database. Access to the books from the following areas of science:

• AI and machine learning
• Cloud platforms
• Programming
• Security certification
• Software architecture
• Business
• Career development
• Data
• Design
• Hardware
• System administration
• Security
• Software development
• Web and mobile

It is necessary to create an individual account in the database (email address required at the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. domain). Click here to see login instructions.
The trial access will be active until December 31, 2021

Warsaw University of Technology has been given trial access to the selected journals from the Lancet group.
The journals are available on the Science Direct platform.
Access will be active until October 12, 2021, for all users from computers in the WUT network and from any computer for users registered in the integrated library system of WUT.

The independent journal The Lancet began as early as 1823, and then evolved into a group of journals publishing articles from various disciplines of medicine:

Available titles:

• The Lancet
• Child & Adolescent Health
• Diabetes & Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology & Hepatology
• Haematology
• HIV
• Psychiatry
• Respiratory Medicine
• Rheumatology

The Lancet group of journals is convinced that medicine is to serve society, that knowledge is to develop it, and that the best science should lead to a better life.

Library of the Faculty of Chemistry - on July 30 will be open until 16 pm

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The WUT Main Library invites you to use the MathSciNet database (on the EBSCOHost platform).

MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 125,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.

The trial access is active till December 30, 2021

Access to the database is possible:
- from university computers network - without logging
- from other computers (outside university network) – available only for users registered to WUT Main Library
All opinions about this database can be sent by the form.