Library
The library operates in accordance with the scientific and educational policy and strategy of the Institute of Population and Human Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with the aim of achieving optimal compliance with the tasks of the institute and satisfying the dynamic reading and information needs.
The library’s fund consists of nearly 7,000 volumes.
• By type: books, periodicals: journals and series; electronic media publications.
• By language: Bulgarian language – 2,750 volumes; foreign languages – 4,250 volumes.
The library provides its readers with conditions for searching in:
• Traditional catalogs (alphabetical – books, series, journals in Cyrillic and Latin; systematic; topographical)
• Electronic catalog – the library’s fund after 2003 is included in the online catalog of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Consolidated Catalog NABIS (covering the resources of academic and other libraries in Bulgaria): www.cl.bas.bg
The library provides access through the page of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (www.cl.bas.bg) to online resources:: with a national subscription – Web of ScienceTM Core Collection (1985-present); Scopus; ScienceDirect; with a subscription to the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – EBSCOhost; JSTOR; “Scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU”; with temporary access – ProQuest, CIELA 5.1, Emerald, DE GRUYTER, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), and other international information systems, which expand the possibilities for acquiring the necessary up-to-date information.
The library at the Institute of Population and Human Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences serves scientific workers from the system of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, other institutes and institutions, students, doctoral students, and citizens. Borrowing and using library documents:
• Scientific workers, doctoral students, and employees of the institute can use the fund at home (without dictionaries, reference books, periodicals, plan topics, dissertations) for up to three months;
• Readers from other institutes in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences system – through the respective library (interlibrary loan) for a period of up to two months;
• External readers – use only in the library reading room.
The library, as part of the library network of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also provides international interlibrary loan (through the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
The library provides reference services – oral and factual, bibliographic references, delivery of documents electronically.
Working hours with readers
- понеделник 09:00-12:00 ч. и от 13.00-16:30 ч.
- вторник 13:00-16:00 ч.
- сряда 09:00-12:00 ч. и от 13.00-16:30 ч.
- четвъртък 09:00-12:00 ч. и от 13.00-16:30 ч.
- петък 09:00-12:00 ч. и от 12:00-15:30 ч.