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Szilárd Library

Access to scientific literature and resources

The Library was opened on the 20th November 1979 and it is named after the Hungarian-American scientist Leo Szilárd, who in part initiated the idea of EMBL.

Author: Tijana Ilic

Book Advent Calendar (12/22)

For a festive season there is a festive selection of 24 new books in our collection in the form of an Advent Calendar – find a book for your Christmas break!


New in collection (10/2022)

According to this year's theme of International Open Access Week, "Open for Climate Justice", we bring new books on the topics of open science, environment and human ecology.


New in the collection (09/2022)

Back from holidays or new to EMBL, here is a warm up for a new school year with the latest editions of classic textbooks and titles on scientific soft skills.


Disrupted access to OUP journals

We experience access problems with subscribed OUP journals. The publisher has been notified and we are working to resolve it. We apologize for the inconvenience.



Special edition for summer holidays

Before summer holidays, drop by the library and choose a book! We suggest designing human genetics, origin of thinking, games, animal aesthetics,....


New in the collection (April 2022)

In April we present innovative books on SRS microscopy and AI applications in pharmaceutics, newly published handbook on lipid membranes, latest edition of Lewin's genes and Chikungunya virus of CTMI series, new interpretation of humanity’s path to control over infectious disease, and more.


To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

With those words reflecting the scientific state of mind, we introduce the EMBL Szilárd library holdings in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11.2.2022.


New in the collection (February 2022)

Among February arrivals, topics include how to drive changes for Open Science, new insights on evolution of senescence, cure development for Alzheimer's, and mesenchymal cell populations in the bone marrow, newest edition of Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, and more.


New in the collection (December 2021)

December book display brings study of the data misuse in modern statistics, new editions of 3D Imaging and Freshney's Culture of Cells, views on mass extinctions in light of Anthropocene, stories behind the taxonomic nomenclature, biography of Mileva Marić-Einstein, and more.

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