Library and reading room work schedule:
Monday: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Thursday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Weekends of part-time studies:
Saturday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Weekends of postgraduate studies:
Saturday: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Library service by e-mail and phone:
During the duty hours of the library and library reading room:
Friday: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
At Collegium Civitas Reading Hall and Library (the Palace of Culture and Science, XI floor, room 1106) the students have access to course books and obligatory readings for classes, seminars and exams. The university is subscribed to daily press as well as to multiple magazines in the Polish and English languages.
On-line catalogue of Library resources is available at:
https://civitas.lib.mol.pl/
For when – It enables easy and quick booking of visits to the library, e.g. in order to collect books reserved in the online catalog.
Collegium Civitas Library Rules and Regulations
Access to E-books – Ibuk Libra
In 2021, we provide readers with access to a special collection of e-books on the Libra Ibuk portal. Access will be possible without logging in from our university’s network and after logging in from readers’ home computers. In order to obtain an access pin code, please contact the library. Instructions available at: https://libra.ibuk.pl/#faq
On this occasion, we also invite you to use the Open Textbook Library platform, which offers English-language academic textbooks in an open license https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
Contact:
Room 1106
tel. 22 656 71 96
library@civitas.edu.pl
Head of Library
Ms. Natalia Płońska
tel. +48 789 009 550
natalia.plonska@civitas.edu.pl
Junior librarian
Ms. Barbara Szustkiewicz
tel. +48 504 798 719
barbara.szustkiewicz@civitas.edu.pl
Collegium Civitas students are welcome to use the resources of:
- The Institute for Philosophy and Sociology Of the polish Academy Of Sciences (also to home)
- Central Library Of the Army
- Literature House Foundation and the Houses Of Creative Work resources
- Warsaw University Reading Hall
- National Library Reading Hall
- International Relations students of the specialization ”European Union” have access to resources of the College of Europe Library in Natolin.
- Digital National Library POLONA
If you are interested in getting access to EBSCO and JSTOR databases from home, please contact the library staff.
If you want to obtain materials from other scientific databases, please contact the library staff.
Each computer at Collegium Civitas provides a free access to the following data bases of scientific magazines and platforms with quoting statistics:
EBSCO www.search.ebscohost.com
JSTOR www.jstor.org
Springer www.springer.com
Elsevier www.elsevier.com
Wirtualna Biblioteka Nauki www.wbn.edu.pl
Scopus www.scopus.com
Wiley-Blackwell www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Web of Knowledge www.webofknowledge.com
e-publications of Polish Science www.epnp.pl
Digital National Library POLONA www.polona.pl
TEST ACCESSES
Test access to De Gruyter
I am pleased to inform you that Collegium Civitas has obtained test access to scientific databases De Gruyter and UPL (Publisher Partner) All eBooks. To use access you must be connected to the Collegium Civitas online network. Test acess will last until April 30. We invite you to https://www.degruyter.com/
Test access to EBSCO Academic Research Source collection
Collegium Civitas obtained test access to the EBSCO Academic Research Source collection. Access will be active from March 15 for two months. Access will be possible directly from the ebsco.host search engine. To use the collection, you must be connected to the Collegium Civitas Internet network or log in with our EBSCO password (if you want to use the second option, please contact us: library@civitas.edu.pl)
Academic Research Source as the perfect complement to Academic Source Ultimate this database supports curricula and creates one of the world’s largest collection of magazines (more than 5 000), eBooks (more than 213 000), video’s and other publications. On the publishers lists there are such well-known international companies as: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Birkhäuser, De Gruyter, transcript Verlag, Emerald Publishing, Artech House Publisher and many university presses like McGill-Queen’s University Press, University of Nevada Press, University of Chicago Press Amsterdam University Press, The MIT Press, University of Illinois Press, or Yale University Press.