Sciences Campus library

Set up in 2001, the Sciences Campus Library houses the collections coming from the former libraries of Physics (Arcetri) and Chemistry and from the archives of the Superior Physics section (Santa Marta) and the Department of Chemistry. It also holds the entire journals collection of the Department of Pharmacy.
In 2014 the collection of Astronomy, formerly housed in Arcetri Observatory and then in the Department, was added.
Part of the books and journals collection is housed at Galileo Museum: see catalogue.

From 2017 the entire library of Animal Biology - established in 1977 - has been moved to the Sesto Fiorentino branch, from the historic headquarters of the Palazzo della Specola in Florence, which is also home to the Zoology section of the Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biology.

For items acquired before 1991, it is advisable to search also the card catalogue.

•  Plan and book locations of the Student Reading Room
•  Plan and book locations the Monographies Reading Room

The library collection consists of:

• • 28,000 books
  • 913 journals, of which 115 with a standing subscription, mainly in digital format.

Special interest collections available online

• Sciences Campus special collections
• Sciences Campus archives
• INAF historical archive
• Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory on SIUSA

• Databases for Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biology on Onesearch

• Sciences Library Miscellany Catalogue: database containing thousands of extracts from scientific literature
• Biodiversity Heritage Library project (BHL): digitized books in the University Library catalogue
• Arcetri's Astrophysics Observatory archives
• Journals Shelf at the Sciences Campus
• Highlights
  • ADS Astrophysics Data System
  • ARIBIB Astronomisches Rechen-Institut BIBliographical Database (Heidelberg)
  • CUBAI Global Catalogue of Italian Astronomy Libraries
  • ESO European Southern Observatory

• 164 seats in the reading rooms
• 4 desktop PCs for catalogue search and research
• wireless connection

It's available BiblioScan: document scanning service

The library is located inside the Sciences Campus in the suburb of Sesto Fiorentino, on the first floor of the Lecture Rooms-Library Building (n. 6).

The entire building is wheelchair accessible.

Sala Studenti

Sala Collezione Generale Monografie

Deposito 82

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• Department of Biology
• Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff"
• Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry
• Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory
  • Library of the Observatory
• Genexpress
• CNR National Research Council - Florence Research Area
  • IPP Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection
  • ICCOM Institute for the Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compunds
  • ICVBC Institute for the Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Heritage
  • IVALSA Trees and Timber Institute
  • IFAC Institute of Applied Physics
• CISM Mass Spectrometry Center
• INFN National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Florence Branch
• LENS European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy
  
• OPENLAB  Laboratorio Aperto Polo Scientifico
• CERM European Center for Magnetic Resonance
• CSGI Center for Colloid and Surface Science
• CRIST Structural Crystallography Center
• PeptLab Laboratory of Peptide & Protein Chemistry & Biology
• LAMM Laboratory for Molecular Magnetism
• LaMMA Environmental Modelling and Monitoring Laboratory for Sustainable Development
• Museo Galileo 
  • Library of the Museum