Library

Opening hours: Sunday through Thursday 8:30-16:00 during the school year.
For summer hours - call library

Tel: 972-3-5318962

Location: The Suissa Life Sciences Building (212), 1st floor, room 113

When the Library is closed books may be returned to the designated box near the entrance of the Chemistry Library (room 103).

Library staff:

Library Director: David Gordon

Email: david.gordon@biu.ac.il

Ph.: 03-5318308 

Ph.: 03-5317664

Librarian: Petrov Irina

Email: petrov.irina@biu.ac.il

Ph.: 03-5318308

Ph.: 03-5318962

Assistant librarian: Alon Tavor

Email: alon.tavor@biu.ac.il

Ph.: 03-5318962

The Library Collection 
The library is located in the Life Sciences Building, and encompasses half of the first floor. The library contains textbooks for use by undergraduate students and a large collection (400 titles) of scientific journals for research use by M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, staff and research personnel.

Catalogs and Indexes
Online catalog (PRIMO) - through which may be located all the books in the library, both Hebrew and English. Searches may be made by author, title, subject and any work made by author, title, subject and any word from these fields.The computer program is used by all institutes of higher education in Israel.

Electronic resourses  (books, academic articles, review articles, scientific conference reports, research reports and more) can be found via EDS and electronic databases.

For more information (in Hebrew).

Rules of behavior requested in the library

• Face masks are required inside all campus libraries.

As of 25/6/21 it is mandatory to wear face masks in all enclosed spaces. Wearing masks must be strictly observed at all times while in the library.

Note that any person without a face mask will be removed from the library without advanced notice.  

• Smoking, eating or drinking are not allowed in the library.
• Students are required to maintain quiet in the library.
• Cellular phones must be turned off before entering the library.
• A detailed list of instructions on the use of the library is available. Disregard of these instructions and inappropriate behavior will be considered an infringement of these rules, and will be brought to the attention of the Dean of the Life Science Faculty.
• The librarians are authorized to ask any student who is behaving improperly to leave the library.
   

CD-ROMs

MEDLINE 1983.

LIFE SCIENCES 1990.

Both of these are on the internal network of Bar Ilan.

JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS (SCIENCE) - stand alone station 1994.