Welcome to the SISSA Library

              Important information for SISSA Library users : access with badge during the weekends and at night has been restored.

           Library services: request of articles and books


The SISSA Library contains more than 22.000 books, 18.000 bound journals, all SISSA theses (Ph.D. and Magister) and currently subscribes to about 150 printed and more than 6000 online scientific journals.

Sissa Discovery Service

Sissa Library catalog (books, e-books, printed journals)

Sissa Electronic Journals catalog and Link Resolver (online journals and digital books)

Bibliographic databases

Sissa Digital Library (publications of SISSA authors: articles, preprints, thesis)

For SISSA authors: please send a pre-print or post-print copy of your new article to the SISSA Digital Library (Institutional Repository). Check your publishers' copyright and self-archiving policy on:
The SHERPA / RoMEO project
Please send your file to: preprint@sissa.it

The library's main areas of interest are :

  • Physics: Astrophysics and Cosmology; Condensed Matter Theory; Elementary Particles; Astroparticle Physics
  • Mathematics: Functional Analysis and Applications; Mathematical Physics; Geometry
  • Statistical and Biological Physics: Biomolecular Simulations, Structural Bioinformatics
  • Neurobiology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Science Communication
  • The library opening hours are : Monday to Friday 8:00-20:00 ; Saturday 8:00-14:00