Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology - News

We have the pleasure to inform that the Library Training e-course will be available for all faculties from 27 February to 27 March 2026.

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: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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.

Do you have any additional questions? You can find more details under – Step by Step / Library Training section.

The Main Library of the Warsaw University of Technology has expanded its offering with the following resources:

• access to all archival journal collections and source publications available on the JSTOR platform (previously, only the Mathematics & Statistics collection was subscribed to)
• access to the SAE Mobilus Academic Library platform
• full-text access to the STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) collection on the de Gruyter platform

JSTOR is a multidisciplinary digital library that currently contains over 2,800 academic journals, available from the first published issue, as well as over 150,000 books, 2 million source documents, and over 2.5 million images. The collection includes the best peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as literary journals respected in academic circles, scientific monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources. With full access to the database, readers get access to the scientific journal archive and full-text access to the JSTOR Archival Journal and Primary Sources Collection, which contains all JSTOR collections:

• Arts & Sciences I Collection do Arts & Sciences XV Collection
• Mathematics & Statistic
• Life Sciences Collection
• Business & Economics Collection
• Hebrew Journals Collection
• Ireland Collection
• Lives of Literature
• Public Health Collection
• Security Studies Collection
• Sustainability Collection
• Global Plants
• 19th Century British Pamphlets
• Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
• World Heritage Sites: Africa

SAE Mobilus Academic Library is a platform that provides access to the most valuable publications issued by SAE International, relating to automotive transport, commercial ground vehicles, industrial machinery, and aerospace engineering technology.

SAE Mobilus Academic Library provides access to the following content:

• SAE Standards (over 42,000 documents)
• Technical Papers (over 143,000 documents)
• Magazines
• Journals (full list of journals titles)
• SAE EDGE Research Reports

De Gruyter is an international database and scientific publisher offering access to books, journals, and series in various fields of science, particularly the exact sciences, social sciences, technology, medicine, and law. Main Library has purchased full-text access to the STM (Science, Technology, and Medicine) collection.

We invite you to use the new e-resources.

From 20 November 2025, books borrowed from the Department of Printing Technologies library will be accepted for return at Student Lending Room, WUT Main Building, room 71, and at South Campus Library, 86 Narbutta St., room 206.

The Main Library of the Warsaw University of Technology has expanded its resources with two unique tools supporting the research process and scientific writing: SAGE Research Methods and SciFlow.

SAGE Research Methods - is one of the most important and comprehensive platforms dedicated to scientific research methodology.

Sage Research Methods Methods is an interactive knowledge base that supports users at every stage of the research process: from formulating questions, through selecting appropriate methods, to analysing and publishing results. It contains over 1,000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on research methods, as well as interactive tools such as Project Planner and Methods Map, which help users better understand and plan their research. Sage Research Methods is primarily intended for researchers, those teaching methodology, or those wishing to develop their research skills. The database is available on the Database List.
For more information, see the Quick Start Guide.

SciFlow tool enables the creation, editing, and formatting of scientific texts (including articles, theses, and doctoral dissertations) in any language.

Key advantages of SciFlow:

• Scientific text editor: The tool offers a dedicated editor that facilitates writing scientific texts, including features such as automatic formatting, handling of footnotes, and bibliography management.
• Document templates: It provides ready-made templates, including manuscript templates for scientific journals, allowing easy adjustment of documents to the editorial requirements of selected publishers.
• Collaboration: The tool enables teamwork as well as commenting and editing texts in real time, while preserving the latest version of the document. Co-authors, supervisors, or other users (with the author’s permission) have direct access to the document and can comment on and revise it.
• Bibliography and citations: SciFlow is integrated with bibliography managers (including Zotero, Mendeley, Citavi, EndNote) and offers over 8,000 citation styles.
• Language correction: The tool supports creating scientific texts in any language; currently, language correction is available in English (LanguageTool) and German (Duden-Mentor).
• LaTeX integration: SciFlow works with the LaTeX markup language, facilitating the creation of advanced scientific documents.
• Document export: The tool allows exporting the final, professionally formatted text in various styles.

To use SciFlow, please follow the personalized link: https://www.sciflow.net/en/wut/start and register an account using an email address with the pw.edu.pl domain.

A training session on using SciFlow for the PW community is scheduled for the end of September 2025.

More information about the tool and its usage can be found in the Learning Support Tools bookmark.

Since 12 September, Warsaw University of Technology has been operating a new library search engine called Primo, available from the Main Library website.

What does this entail?

The implementation of the new software will enable access to:

• Primo search engine, enabling simultaneous searching of more than 150 domestic library catalogues and electronic resources
• Primo Research Assistant tool, which uses artificial intelligence and allows questions to be asked in natural language
• logging in via the @pw.edu.pl account

How to log in to the library account and online resources?

Two-factor authentication is required for students and WUT employees, as well as retired WUT employees:

• LOGIN: email address in the PW domain (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• PASSWORD: the password for your PW domain email account;
• Additional authentication (MFA): using Microsoft Authenticator app, a token or SMS.

Other users - who only have access to printed collections - can log in using their existing login plus password obtained via the ‘Reset your password’ function.

Please read the Information clause for users of the library system

Questions?

Please send any questions or comments regarding the use of the new system to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 22 234 73 00.

Minor glitches may occur during the initial phase of the system's operation. We appreciate your understanding.

Project funding

The implementation of the new software is being carried out in cooperation with the National Library, as the operator of Priority 1, Intervention Direction 1.2. Building a nationwide library network by means of an integrated library resources management system.

Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the implementation of the National Reading Development Program 2.0 for 2021-2025.

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 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.

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 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

We kindly inform you that Proquest subscription contains access to the:

• ABI/INFORM Collection - the collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review, country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global - it is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering 5 million citations and 2.5 million full-text works from thousands of universities all over the world.
• ProQuest Central - it brings together many of our most used databases to create the most comprehensive, diverse, and relevant multidisciplinary research database available. It provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform. Contains the following collections:
• Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
• Agricultural Science Database
• Biological Science Database
• Computer Science Database
• Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database
• Engineering Database
• Environmental Science Database
• Materials Science Database
• Military Database
• Science Database
• Telecommunications Database
• ABI/INFORM Collection
• Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
• Asian & European Business Collection
• Business Market Research Collection
• Criminal Justice Database
• Education Database
• Library Science Database
• Linguistics Database
• Political Science Database
• Religion Database
• Social Science Database
• Sociology Database
• Health & Medical Collection
• Consumer Health Database
• Healthcare Administration Database
• Nursing & Allied Health Database
• Psychology Database
• Public Health Database
• Arts & Humanities Database
• Research Library
• Australia & New Zealand Database
• Continental Europe Database
• East & South Asia Database
• East & Central Europe Database
• East & Central Europe Database
• India Database
• Latin America & Iberia Database
• Middle East & Africa Database
• Turkey Database
• U.K. & Ireland Database
• Career & Technical Education Database
• Canadian Business & Current A airs Database (CBCA)
• Publicly Available Content Database
• International Newsstream
• Canadian Newsstream
• U.S. Newsstream
• Global Breaking Newswires

Reciprocal Borrowing Programme for Warsaw academic libraries (BiblioWawa) is a joint project of 7 Warsaw academic libraries, which provides the Warsaw academic community with convenient access to circulating library resources of the cooperating libraries.

Users eligible to benefit the programme:

• full-time and extramural undergraduate and postgraduate students (except students participating in exchange programmes, e.g Erasmus, MOST, MOSTAR);
• students of postgraduate diploma courses;
• academic staff, except individuals working under contract to perform specific tasks.

Participating Libraries:

• Library of the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education
• Main Library of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
• Main Library of the Maria Grzegorzewska University
• Main Library of the Medical University of Warsaw
• Main Library of the Military University of Technology
• University of Warsaw Library

More about the Programme here