Academica


Academica is a digital interlibrary loan service for academic books and journals. It provides access to more than 3.7 million full-text publications – monographs, textbooks, scripts, articles and entire journal issues. Academica's constantly expanding resources include academic textbooks, specialist journals as well as reference texts, fiction and special collections.


Academica provides access to:

  • collections under free licences or based on licences granted to the National Library (access from any computer with Internet access),
  • copyrighted collections (access via the National Library's terminal located on a dedicated computer stand in the Lending Library).

Link to the platform


How to use Academica in the UPWr Library?

  1. It is necessary to have an active library account (in the case of people from outside the University, please accept the Academica Digital Lending Library Regulations).
  2. An individual reader account on the Academica platform is created in the Lending Library of the UPWr Main Library.
  3. Academica resources (protected by copyright) can only be used on site via the terminal located in the Lending Library (during the opening hours of the Main Library).