Tag: library

  • Felix Bloch’s Nobel medal now on display at CERN

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 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 CERN Library gets a facelift

    The renovation work will start in autumn 2022

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  • Sharing knowledge: the fifth CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries

    Sharing knowledge: the fifth CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries

    The fifth CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries brought together 35 library professionals from African countries in Nairobi, Kenya

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  • Spring cleaning for the CERN photo archive

    Uploading the CERN photo archive to CDS will provide an invaluable resource to the CERN community, says Alex Brown

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