Remote operation of Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library
Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library and other specialist libraries of the University of Silesia perform their tasks on-site, support distance learning, and provide online services.
You can find the current information about the opening hours, rules of operation, available facilities, and guidelines on the use of services on the website of Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library, specialist libraries, as well as social media.
Contact: phone no. 32 786 51 30, e-mail: zapytaj@ciniba.edu.pl
Electronic sources
Please remember about the possibility to use electronic sources. The University of Silesia subscribes over 60 databases (including many full-text databases), which share several dozen thousand electronic journals and about 250,000 books.
A majority of these databases can be used remotely, i.e. from any device with access to Internet (also outside the computer network of the University of Silesia). You can use the sources remotely on the condition that you have an active library account in the library system of the University of Silesia (Integro). Authorization is executed through the HAN system. Please enter the same login (PESEL or account number) and password as in the library system (Integro online catalogue).
The databases can be used by employees, retired employees of the University of Silesia and also students of all degrees and postgraduate students at the University of Silesia.
The website of the Library contains the list of all subscribed electronic sources. The remotely accessible databases have a special link described as HAN US. This link takes you to the login page and after correct authorization, to the appropriate database. In the case of sources with a specific access location indicated (e.g. Law Library of the University of Silesia), you can only use them after sending a request to the following e-mail address: zapytaj@ciniba.edu.p.
In the case of any problem with access to the databases, use or selection of the appropriate source, please contact us by phone (32 786 51 33) or e-mail (zapytaj@ciniba.edu.pl).
The library particularly recommends the full-text databases, which can be used not only for research work, but also as a teaching aid (e.g. for e-learning classes or to suggest the use of specific handbooks to students).
Digital Educational Library of the University of Silesia
Digital Educational Library of the University of Silesia shares materials necessary for conducting remote classes. Full texts of publications based on orders submitted by the University employees running classes are published here.
To order materials, please complete the form (for each publication separately). Orders can be placed by research and teaching employees of the University of Silesia. The employee receives e-mail notification with the information whether and where the material is available. Scanned materials will be available for every student and employee of the University of Silesia, who has an account in the library. The employee only has to send the link to the digital library to studentshttp://han.bg.us.edu.pl/han/bc.
The use of subscribed databases and resources of the digital educational library of the University of Silesia requires an active account in the library. Authorisation is executed through HAN system. Please enter the same login (PESEL or account number) and password as in the library system (Integro online catalogue). The databases can be used by employees, retired employees of the University of Silesia and also students of all degrees and postgraduate students at the University of Silesia.
