Library account – check out and renew books, reserve items, create lists of favorite resources.

ORCID – all EMBL staff is encouraged to register and regularly update their ORCID record.

eLABJournal – an electronic lab notebook that helps organize and save the research lab procedures. (To set up an account please contact us).

iThenticate – the plagiarism detection software for theses and scientific publications. (To set up an account please contact us).

Overleaf– an online, collaborative platform for writing and publishing scientific and technical documents using the LaTeX typesetting system. Each EMBL group is allowed one account. (To set up an account please contact us ).

Grammarly for Education – an AI-powered writing assistant that helps students and faculty improve their writing skills by offering suggestions for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and more. (To set up an account please contact us ). For Unlimited Access users can purchase a Grammarly license using their group budget for uninterrupted access. The annual fee is is USD 115,70. For Limited Access (max. 3 months) users can access Grammarly for three months without personal budget allocation. After this period, the account can be deactivated and reassigned to another user.

O’Reilly learning platform – covers topics such as software development, project management, data analysis, finance, leadership, career development, system administration and more. (To set up your account please contact us). For Unlimited Access users should cover the annual fee through their group budget. The annual fee is USD 465,23 per account. For Limited Access (max. 3 months) users can access the platform for three months without personal budget allocation. After this period, the account can be deactivated and reassigned to another user.

More information about the account allocation procedure can be found in this document.

Library and the reading room are located in ATC B29.01 (Helix B). Reading room is open to users at all times – no booking required.

Library facilities include workspaces with monitors, public access iMacs, a lounge area with print magazines. Printer is available and is located on the opposite side of the library (Helix A).

The Szilárd Library holds mainly life science subjected collection responding to EMBL research groups and facilities. It also includes topics like career development, complementary skills and personal well-being. Extensive library sections are history and philosophy of science, biographies and science&society books.

Special collection dedicated to EMBL monographs comprises of EMBL theses and EMBL authors’ and EMBL alumni publications, and the books written by or related to Leo Szilárd.

Library provides book loan delivery to all EMBL sites, except to EBI where staff is served by The Ashburner Library of The Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Regrettably, for the time being, it is not possible to loan library items to other libraries.

Contact librarians if you have suggestions for new books!

If the material you’re looking for is not available in our library, we offer several options to help you access it:

Book Loan – We can borrow books from other libraries at no cost.

Request a Purchase – We can buy a book for your group (cost center required).

Suggest a Book – Recommend a title for our collection and borrow it if approved.

Publisher PDF – Request an article from the publisher (charged to your budget).

Scanned Article – Request a research article as a scanned copy and we’ll obtain it from another library typically within 24 to 48 hours at no cost.

Access to e-journals is IP-based and available to all EMBL sites.

Subscribed Methods and Protocols can be browsed here.

Contact librarians for any journal access problem!

The Szilárd Library serves as a repository for all EMBL PhD theses. After completing their PhD studies, fellows are asked to submit their final theses for archiving and cataloguing. The library will print and bind each thesis to include it in the physical collection and create a catalog record with the PDF file.

Email your thesis in PDF format to library@embl.org and include:

– Do you require an embargo period? If so, for how long? (An embargo of up to 2 years can be established for theses containing unpublished data.)

The Szilárd Library is tasked with maintaining and curating publications’ records in EMBL’s Current Research Information System Converis. 

Publications imported to Converis become visible to researchers’ personal and group pages. 

For importing their pre-EMBL publications researchers are supported with Wiki.

The Szilárd Library has adopted Open Access as a core point of its mission and provides counseling and a number of discounts, agreements, and prepayment schemes for Open Access publishing. 

More information on Open Access and publication services at EMBL supported by the Szilárd Library can be found here.