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General – Szilárd Library

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.

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2024 in numbers

How did 2024 look like in our library in numbers? Thousands of shared resources. Thousands of website clicks. Hundreds of EMBL publications curated. Hundreds of books borrowed...


New in the collection – Christmas break

For Christmas break we don't propose any research textbooks - it's time for break! Find out how climate change affects sport, how games we play influence humanity, how graphic interpretation of 1984 looks like, and many more....




New in the collection (2024, November #2)

Smart notes, afterlife of data, ancient lakes, pharmaceutical nanocarriers, teleonomy in living systems, quantum processes in biology - are just some of our latest arrivals...


Library Anniversary Christmas book flea market

Ahead of Christmas, librarians are organizing a book flea market to raise donations for the library of elderly people home “Katharina Labouré Haus” in Heidelberg.


Welcome 2024 predocs!

In supporting EMBL postgraduate students in their scientific journey, Szilárd Library provided more books on career development, PhD guides, paper writing.


New in the collection, November #1 (2024)

Why we age and how we might prevent it? How to bring back productivity without a burnout? Can neuroscience help us in storytelling presentations? See more of November arrivals....


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