Trial access to De Gruyter resources

During the coronavirus pandemic academic literature publishing house De Gruyter in
partnership with other publishers gives access to the full texts of nearly 75000 electronic books in different fields of knowledge. The list includes books published during the period between 1650-2016 yy.
Access is provided at the local Igor Sikorsky KPI network and will last till the 30.06.2020.

During the quarantine students and staff of Igor Sikorsky KPI can order full texts of publications via the service of electronic documents delivery. It is easy to make:

• follow the link;
• review the list of publishers and edition titles that are available for review and downloading;
• search the books using key words, view abstracts, choose the editions you need;
• copy DOI or URL of the necessary book and please fill the online form.

Digital instruments for organization of remote work

Experts of KPI Library have prepared for the professors of the University list of digital instruments for effective remote work and communication.

We also recommend to professors to use services of a temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
On the website you will find advices:

• how to start distant teaching;
• how to teach remotely without video conferences;
• how to make lesson available for all the education recipients;
• how to involve students into active cooperation during distant teaching;
• how to cooperate with other teachers and more.

Information about the collection of rare books

We remind that now you can apply for information and consultations of the experts of rare and
valuable books department about:

• old books and editions of XIX – first half of XX century;
• search and selection of information resources from the rare and valuable books collection by the themes;
• bibliographic description of editions of XIX – the beginning of XX century, KPI history, history of science and technology, engineering education;
•  collections of rare and valuable books in KPI Library;
• using virtual collections of e-catalogue «Rare and valuable editions» and «Igor Sikorsky KPI history».

All the details about remote services of the Library
are gathered here.

Contact us!

Search and selection of information resources by themes

Library still works remotely!
We will prepare for you list of sources by the subject you choose that exist in the KPI Library
electronic catalogue, Igor Sikorsky KPI electronic archive of scientific and educational materials, libraries of Ukraine and open access resources. If you need to know in what Ukrainian library there is the publication you search, please write author, title and publication year and send your request.

If you have questions like this, please write to our e-mail:  subject.library.kpi@gmail.com .
How to contact us and a full list of services please find here.

«Google Scholar»: how to create researcher profile (instruction)

KPI Library experts prepared instruction on how to create a researcher profile in Google Scholar. That powerful supporting resource can be downloaded via link.

Google Scholar allows to:

• create own researcher profile and follow bibliographic references to your articles;
• search publications on the Internet in different disciplines and from different sources;
• calculate for researchers such scientometric indexes as h-index and i10-index;
• create own library of necessary bibliographic references;
• follow the indexes of articles’ visibility and influence in scientific periodicals.