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WUT Main Library is actively involved in the initiative to launch the Night Study Rooms, providing students with two rooms for night-time study – 162b and 162c in the Main Building.

From June 1 to 27, 2026, study and work spaces will also be available at Warsaw University of Technology during the night.

Where and when?

Two locations will be available to WUT students:

• WUT Main Library (Main Building) – rooms 162b and 162c
• 4 Rektorska Street – room 3.12

The rooms will be open from Monday to Saturday during the following hours:

• 21:30–06:00
• 21:00–21:30 – technical break (access verification and room maintenance)

A comfortable study environment at WUT Main Library

With its users in mind, the Main Library has rearranged the layout of its rooms to create a comfortable environment for studying and working.

The interiors have taken on a new, welcoming character – colours, plants, cosy carpets, comfortable armchairs and seating have been introduced, as well as whiteboards to support individual and group work.

Access rules

The Night Study Rooms are available exclusively to students of Warsaw University of Technology:

• who have active student status in the USOS system
• who hold an Electronic Student Card (ELS), which is used for verification upon entry

Capacity limits

• Main Building (rooms 162b and 162c): max. 36 people
• Rektorska 4 (room 3.12): max. 50 people

The access control system monitors the number of people in real time – entry will not be permitted once the capacity limit has been reached.

The premises are under CCTV surveillance and are monitored by the reception and the Academic Guards.

Safety and contact details

For matters relating to the operation of the Night Study Rooms:

• Contact details for the WUT Chancellor: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Academic Guards / reception:
  • 22 234 6666
  • 22 234 2000 / 22 234 7243

In the event of an emergency or a breach of the regulations, please contact the staff immediately.

Regulation for the Night Study Rooms in the Main Building

The Main Library and its branches will be closed from 4 to 7 June.

Main Library is pleased to announce the launch of trial access to the Sage Premier package – one of SAGE’s most comprehensive collections of academic journals. The Sage Premier package comprises international, peer-reviewed academic journals, including highly regarded research titles published in collaboration with 514 academic societies and professional organisations.

Sage Premier provides access to:

• over 1,000 peer-reviewed academic journals (over 1.4 million articles),
• back issues dating from 1999 (where available), retained for the duration of the active subscription.

The package covers a wide range of academic disciplines and provides essential support for research, teaching and academic work.
List of titles available under Sage Premier 2026

Important information:

• Trial period: 22 May–26 June 2026
• Trial access is available to WUT students and staff upon logging in with an @pw.edu.pl account.
• Please send your feedback on the database to the WUT Main Library Reference Department via a short survey

Take advantage of the trial access and explore the range of journals!

The Main Library of the Warsaw University of Technology announces that on 11 May 2026, testing will begin on BioRender – a platform for creating professional scientific and educational illustrations.

BioRender enables the creation of multi-coloured diagrams, charts and graphics used in scientific publications, presentations, teaching materials and research projects. The tool offers:

• over 50 000 pictograms covering the fields of medical, natural and agricultural sciences,
• over 5 000 ready-made templates,
• icon libraries created by professional scientific illustrators,
• the ability to add labels, arrows and your own shapes,
• an AI module (each test participant will receive 50 credit points to use when working with the AI module).

The test is intended for academic and teaching staff, as well as PhD students at the Warsaw University of Technology.

A training webinar (online) in English: 12 May 2026 (Tuesday) at 2.00 pm. Attendance is voluntary (it is not required to sit the test).

Important information

• Test dates: 11 May – 11 June 2026
• To take the test, please complete the registration form.
• After testing the tool, we encourage you to complete a 2-minute evaluation survey.

Illustrations produced during the test may not be used for commercial purposes or included in grant or patent applications. The Main Library of the Warsaw University of Technology accepts no liability for the misuse of materials produced as part of the test.

Contact:

• Magdalena Maciąg – tel. 22 234 73 00,
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• Monika Gajewska – tel. 22 234 73 00,
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Additional materials:

• https://www.biorender.com/webinar
• https://www.biorender.com/learn?utm_source=marketing_site_topnav

Main Library invites you to try out the LibKey tools and the BrowZine platform. Their purpose is to simplify and shorten the path from finding information about an article to accessing its full text.

What’s new on the Library’s website?

Two new options have appeared in the search menu (below the search box):

• 🔥 E-journal search (BrowZine) – the successor to the previous ‘Journal search’. It allows you to:
  • easily browse journals by title or subject area
  • browse entire volumes or issues
• 🔥 Search by DOI – a quick way to check the availability of a specific publication. Simply enter the DOI number to access the text

New additions to the search results list (Primo search engine)

🔥 Download PDF / 🔥 Read Article – just one click to view the full text of the article in your chosen format

🔥 View Issue Contents / 🔥 View Journal Contents – just one click to view the full text of the article in your chosen format

Important information

• Test duration: until 30 June 2026
• We encourage you to complete a 2-minute survey to help us assess the usefulness of the tools

Any questions? Please contact us!
e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tel.: +48 22 234 73 00

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

Entries

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.