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Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology is pleased to announce that we have acquired trial access to the Science family of journals collection (tab: Journals).

Journals from the Science family contain the best research papers from various scientific fields that are among the most cited in the world.

Each journal is characterised by its interdisciplinary scope, rigorous but efficient peer-review process and publication of research that promotes open dialogue among a diverse group of readers.

As part of the test we have access to the following titles from the Science family of journals:

• Science Robotics - a leading journal for engineers, scientists and industry leaders, presenting the latest developments in robotics - from theory to real-world applications. It publishes high-impact research in areas such as AI, autonomous vehicles, biomaterials, humanoids and medical, educational and other robots.
• Science Immunology- a leading journal for researchers and clinicians working in immunology, oncoimmunology, autoimmunity, transplantation and infectious diseases. It publishes ground-breaking research in areas such as immunotherapy, antibodies, cytokines and the body's defence mechanisms.
• Science Signaling- a key journal for scientists and students in biology, chemistry, pharmacology and medicine, as well as researchers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. It publishes groundbreaking research in areas such as biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology, neuroscience and medicine.
• Science Translational Medicine- a leading journal for researchers and clinicians connecting science to clinical practice. It publishes groundbreaking research in areas such as genomic medicine, immunotherapy, tissue engineering, diagnostics, therapies for cancer and neurodegenerative, metabolic or infectious diseases.

The access will be active until 6 June 2025 for all users from computers in the WUT network, and from any computer for users registered in the Integrated Library System.

We encourage all researchers, students and PhD students to test this database and share their impressions. Your feedback will help us to better adapt the library resources to the needs of the academic community. Comments can be sent via aquestionnaire

Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology is pleased to announce trial access to Petroleum Source, a new full-text database for petroleum research.

Petroleum Source provides access to the largest collection of leading journals covering the extraction, refining and transportation of oil, gas and petroleum products.

The database enables researchers to explore technological trends and related scientific knowledge on petroleum products and their global impact. It offers access to the full texts of many of the most important journals in the field.

In addition to journals and magazines related to the petroleum industry, Petroleum Source also provides industry reports, SWOT analyses, company profiles and ebooks.

List of titles available in the database: Petroleum Source- content

Access will be active until 30 April 2025 for all users from computers on the WUT network and from any computer for users registered in the Integrated Library System.

We encourage all researchers, postgraduates and students to test this database and share their impressions. Your feedback will help us to better adapt the library resources to the needs of the academic community.

Comments can be sent via a survey

Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology is pleased to announce that we have been granted trial access to the Inspec with Full Text - Text database, an innovative tool developed in collaboration with experts from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Inspec with Full Text is an advanced database combining the INSPEC index with full-text access to more than 1,500 scientific and professional journals. This tool enables fast and precise searches for information in fields such as:

• Physics
• Electrical and electronic engineering
• Computer science
• Astronomy and astrophysics
• Mechanical and manufacturing engineering
• Information technology
• Bioengineering, nanotechnology and environmental sciences (multidisciplinary research)

Thanks to specialised indexing and classification, researchers gain access to reliable and in-depth content to support their scientific work. Access will be active until until 30 April 2025for all users from computers on the WUT network and from any computer for users registered in the Integrated Library System.

We encourage all researchers, PhD students and undergraduates to test this database and share their impressions. Your feedback will help us to better adapt the library resources to the needs of the academic community.

Comments can be sent via a survey

Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology has purchased access to Scopus AI (Scopus AI tab on the Scopus homepage). Scopus AI is an intuitive and intelligent search tool based on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). It helps at every stage of academic work: when conducting research, searching and reviewing results, reviewing articles, verifying data and creating bibliographies. Scopus AI draws on the metadata and abstracts of papers registered in Scopus and published after 2013.

We invite you to use the new tool.

We have the pleasure to inform that the Library Training e-course will be available for all faculties from 24 Feb. 2025 to 24 March 2025.

In accordance with the Order No. 24/2021 of the Rector of Warsaw University of Technology dated 30/03/2021, completion of the course is compulsory for all students of:

• the first year of a first-cycle degree programme;
• the first year of a long-cycle Master's programme;
• the second-cycle degree programme who have not completed the training at WUT.

Library training is conducted electronically on the LeOn Platform of Warsaw University of Technology. Each participant of the course must log in to the LeOn platform on their own at the indicated time and complete the e-course. The training lasts approximately one hour and consists of handouts and a compulsory test.

Enrolment for e-course in USOSweb

• Students in the first year of the first-cycle degree programme and the long-cycle Master's programme are automatically enrolled in the course in USOSweb.
• Students in the first-year of the second-cycle MSc programme (who have not previously completed training at this University) and students who are not automatically enrolled in the course must enrol by registering for the course in USOSweb. Click ‘Register’ (registration for Additional Group 21). Access to the course will be active on the next working day after enrolment in USOS, after 10:00 a.m. If you are unable to enrol yourself, please contact: ekurs.bg@pw.edu.pl

Instructions for logging in to the LeOn platform

1. Go to the LeOn platform homepage
2. Select ‘Login’ (in the top right corner of the screen) and then click on ‘Login to the platform’
3. The login and password are the same as for the USOSWeb system
4. Enter your login: your PESEL number or the email address you provided when you were recruited (or the ID obtained from the dean's office of the relevant faculty - for those who do not have a PESEL number)
5. Enter your USOSWeb password. Students logging in to USOSWeb for the first time enter the password from the Online Recruitment of Candidates system.
6. Select the course Library Training - Exercises.

Attention!

If you cannot remember your password, please try to recover it yourself by following the recovery procedure in the application available at (password reset link). If there is insufficient data in the system, or if you are unable to recover your password yourself, please contact the Dean's Office of your faculty.

Transferring credits from previous years

Students who have done the Library Training e-course in previous years (2014-2024) and have changed faculty, may have their credits transferred.

• Those who wish to transfer their e-course credits from previous years must be enrolled for the course in the current semester - see the ENROLMENT section.
• Requests for the transfer should be made via the form

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Credits will be entered into USOSweb at the end of the semester.

Warsaw University of Technology has been granted test access to the SciFlow platform, an advanced tool for editing and automatic formatting of academic texts.

About SciFlow:

SciFlow is an online platform that supports the process of creating and formatting academic texts - such as articles, master's theses or dissertations. Its main features include:

• Scientific text editor: SciFlow offers a dedicated text editor that includes features to facilitate the writing of scientific documents, such as automatic formatting, footnote and bibliography handling, etc.
• Templates: The platform offers thousands of ready-made journal templates. When writing an article in SciFlow, the author can be sure that the format of the article corresponds to the requirements of the journal
• Collaboration: Possibility to work in teams, comment and edit texts. SciFlow maintains the latest version of the text, and a co-author, supervisor or other user, who has been given permission by the author, can also view it and comment on and correct the text directly in SciFlow
• Bibliography and citation: Integration with bibliography management tools and support for more than 8000 citation styles (e.g. Zotero, Mendeley, Citavi, Endonote)
• Language correction: Support for English (LanguageTool) and German (Duden-Mentor); additional correction functions will soon be available
• Integration with LaTeX: SciFlow works with the LaTeX markup language
• Document export: Export of the finished, professionally formatted text in a variety of styles

The SciFlow platform simplifies the process of writing scientific papers, providing users with convenience and professionalism.

Test access period:

From 2 December 2024 to 26 January 2025.

Access and registration:

To use the platform, visit the SciFlow for Warsaw University of Technology website and create an account using your WUT domain email address.

Support and training materials:

• Help centre: support.sciflow.net
• Recording of recent training: Watch on Zoom
• Additional recordings are available on the SciFlow YouTube channel

We encourage you to test and send feedback:

Please send feedback on the tool via the survey.

We are pleased to inform you that our computer room on the ground floor (room 71a) has been equipped with new computers!
The devices are running Windows 11 operating system and include the following software:

• MS Office Professional
• Python
• Visual Studio Community
• Notepad++
• Engineering software:
  • SOLIDWORKS
  • MATLAB
  • ArcGIS Pro
  • STATISTICA
  • Siemens NX

The computers are available to all students and staff of the university (login required).

The WUT Main Library is pleased to invite you to an IEEE seminar, which will be held on April 23, 2024, from 12 to 2 pm (Main Library, Main Building, 1st floor, room 162B).

The seminar will discuss issues related to preparing an article for publication in the IEEE, including:

• how to prepare the article so that it is best for the review process
• how to select the right journal
• helpful websites (e.g. IEEE Author Center) and the article submission process
• how to use IEEE Xplore effectively to get started and literature review
• overview of the peer-review process
• publishing in open access

The seminar will be led by Eszter Lukács (IEEE Client Services Manager). The meeting will be conducted in English.

The Main Library is pleased to announce a trial access to the collection of e-books of academic publisher De Gruyter and several publishers, including Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Cornell University Press, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, University of Toronto Press.

De Gruyter Publishing publishes more than 1,500 books and 16,000 journal articles each year, in 30 subject areas. It also offers around 80 databases and online reference works, covering a collection of disciplines.

Test access includes thousands of e-book titles in more than 70 fields of the humanities, social sciences, sciences and technology from many renowned scientific publishers.

Test access is active until 30 April 2024 for all users, from computers on the WUT network and from any computer for users registered in the WUT integrated library system.

Please send feedback on the database to the WUT Main Library Reference Department at: oin.bg@pw.edu.pl

We want our library to be a place that reflects your requirements. Help us create an environment that is inspiring, creative and tailored to your needs. Want to have a say in the arrangement of the library space in WUT Main Building?

Fill out a short anonymous survey

We look forward to receiving your ideas.

Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology organises an exhibition of photographs titled Ciekłe kryształy / Liquid Crystals. Their author is Marek Sutkowski, PhD, an employee of the Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics (Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, WUT) and a graduate of the Faculty of Mechatronics, WUT. The exhibition will feature boards with photographs of liquid crystals, photographed and graphically designed by the author. The captured images were created in nematic and smectic structures, recorded under a polarising microscope (magnifications 10-60x).

The exhibition will be on display from 15 November 2023 in Students Lending Room, ground floor, WUT Main Building (room 71) - during library opening hours.

About the Author
As part of his PhD, the author created one of the world's first optoelectronic reconstruction systems for digital holograms using liquid crystals, which enabled optical reconstruction of static and time-varying holograms (animations and films). Currently, he continues to work on the use of liquid crystals, optical measurement systems, problems of image registration, processing and image processing. He has been involved in photography since an early age. Marek Sutkowski's favourite field of photographic creativity is macro- and micro-photography. The author is the winner of many national and international awards. His works have been presented at collective and individual exhibitions.

The Main Library is pleased to announce a trial access to Bentham Science Publishers
The trial access will be available till December 31, 2023
Bentham Science Publishers is a progressive science, technology, and medical (STM) publisher, providing academic researchers and industrial professionals with the latest information in diverse fields of science and technology.

Access to all journals and ebooks from the areas:

• Agriculture/Food Sciences
• Arts and Humanities
• Biology/Life Sciences
• Chemistry
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Economics and Business
• Engineering/Technology
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Philosophy/Linguistics
• Physics/Astronomy
• Psychology/Psychiatry
• Social Sciences

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 to Main Library Reference Department: oin.bg@pw.edu.pl

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 oin.bg@pw.edu.pl

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.