2024 in numbers
Looking back to 2024, let’s see the numbers from the Szilárd Library!
We provided journal subscriptions that enabled more than 100K of article downloads;
Top journal article downloads: Nature journal.
We received hundreds of requests for resources and tool accounts;
Top book suggestions: Vladimir Benes.
Library website had 9176 website views;
Top visitors from: Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy and France.
We curated 761 EMBL publications, of which 96 preprint articles;
Top publishing journal: Nature Communications with 62 EMBL publications;
Top preprint platform: bioRxiv.
We catalogued 348 books and thesis, with highlights of EMBL theses defended in 2023 and 2024, and the two books published by EMBL Alumni: Andrew Moore and Russ Hodge.
We registered 233 book loans (and identified dozens of missing books taken without a check-out 🙂 )
Top circulating books:
Outline of crystallography for biologists
An introduction to medicinal chemistry
Stochastic chemical reaction systems in biology