Tag: library
The CERN library is responsible for safeguarding documents and files of potential interest to the Organization and for historical research, providing access to information for CERN personnel and the worldwide particle physics community, distributing documents and advising CERN divisions on the best ways of ensuring that all relevant documents are made publicly available.
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Need a quiet moment? Discover the Library’s new “Comfort Zone”
On 13 October 2026, the CERN Library celebrated the official opening of its new Comfort Zone, a recently renovated space on the ground floor of the CERN Library, in Building 52. Following the inauguration of the Library’s first-floor space three years ago, this new area transforms the previously underused ground-floor space into an environment designed
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The Scientific Information Service launches three new websites to make your life easier
The Scientific Information Service (SIS) has updated its web presence and now has three separate – yet closely connected – websites for the Library, the Archives and the Open Science Office. With this change, we aim to make our services even more visible and comprehensible to the CERN community. The Library website is your guide
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CERN’s KiCad component library now open source
The cornerstone of open source philosophy is that the recipients of technology should have access to all of its building blocks, such as software code, schematics for electronics and mechanical designs. This lets everyone study, modify and redistribute the technology to others. Since releasing the World Wide Web software under an open source licence in
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Felix Bloch’s Nobel medal now on display at CERN
This year, on the occasion of what would have been the 120th birthday of Felix Bloch, first Director-General of CERN and 1952 Nobel laureate in physics, the physicist’s family generously donated his Nobel prize medal to CERN
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A century of quantum mechanics
On 9 July 1925, in a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg revealed his new ideas, which were to revolutionise physics
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The new CERN Library, one year on
Improved accessibility, events, audiobooks and more – find out what the new CERN Library has to offer you
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Enabling open access to books
An expanded collaboration agreement between CERN and the OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation sees the Laboratory directly hosting the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books in its Data Centre
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First-stone ceremony of the CERN Library renovation
Members of the Scientific Information Policy Board, the library renovation project team and current and former SIS colleagues joined the ceremony at the construction site
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CERN supports open access publishing for books
CERN is moving one step closer to achieving full open access for academic books in high-energy physics and related disciplines by participating in the SCOAP3 for books initiative
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The CERN Library gets a facelift
The renovation work will start in autumn 2022