The Technion Libraries offer research support services and personal guidance on various academic topics, including library services for teaching staff.
The libraries’ services are available to all Technion students and faculty members.
Please note: some of the services are available only in specific libraries.
For further information, please contact your faculty library or the Central Library.
Course Materials
Academic staff, graduate students, and administrative staff are eligible to receive a guarantee letter for access to other academic libraries in Israel that have mutual cooperation agreements with the Technion.
This guarantee will allow you to receive external library services, according to the policies of that library.
To receive a guarantee letter please contact the circulation desk:
Email: cir@technion.ac.il
Tel.: 073-378-2504/2521
Read more: Borrowing Services
Faculty members, students and administrative staff of the Technion can order books, articles, theses and research reports from libraries in Israel and around the world at no cost.
Read more: Interlibrary Loan Services
Each year, three scheduled periods are designated for purchasing the required textbooks for university courses.
The purchase will be made according to the remaining balance in the literary budget. Only textbooks that are defined in the syllabus as required reading will be purchased.
Purchasing electronic books with no user access limitations is prioritized, and digital books are favored over printed .
The lists of textbooks are updated in the library catalog: it is recommended to ask for the catalog link from the faculty library and add it to the course’s website on Moodle.
Read more: Acquisition Department at the Central Library (in hebrew)
To allow lecturers and teaching assistants to borrow textbooks for a semester without purchasing them, the libraries provide a semester-long book lending service.
The libraries offer to scan documents to be used as teaching materials (book chapters, journal articles, etc.). These scans can be loaded into Moodle.
Teaching Tools and Resourses
- A subscription to iThenticate is available to you. iThenticate is the most professional software for plagiarism detection of written scientific work.
Please note: if you wish to upload more than 5 documents, please contact us. - The Technion libraries’ portal is frequently updated with information regarding the citation rules applicable at the Technion and in the academic world. Read more: Plagiarism and citation styles.
- An online tutorial on academic integrity is available for you in Hebrew.
This tutorial explains the principles of academic integrity and how to prevent plagiarism.
Read our MOOCs Guide (in hebrew) with detailed information regarding copyright issues.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of academic studies and research is reshaping the way institutions handle information and knowledge.
Visit our Artificial Intelligence and Universities page for more information and for our staff’s recommendations. The information and recommendations will be updated on the libraries’ portal on a regular basis.
Guidance and Instruction
Our information specialists and library staff conducts personal and group guidance to teach students how to use the libraries’ resources to search for and evaluate academic references on their own (scientific journal articles, standards, patents, reports, theses, statistics, etc.).
The sessions are tailored to the research or course subject, focusing on the relevant references, sources and databases. The guidance also includes instructions on reference management tools.
Read more:
- Literature reviews – demonstration of databases and advanced research techniques
- Guidance on reference management programs (e.g. Zotero)
- Introducing tools for scientific evaluation and research support
- Details on OA publishing
- Assistance in managing the researcher’s profile and publications list in CRIS
- Familiarity with patent databases and performing patent searches
- Guidance in foreign languages for abroad students
- Tutorials as part of seminars and orientation days
- A visitors’ tour of the Elyachar Central Library (the Information and Learning Center)
Read more: reference and instruction
The personalized and group guidance offered by the reference librarians is useful for lecturers (for their courses), students at all levels, research groups, faculty members and researchers, school students, pre-university programs, and more.
To order guidance with us, please login and fill out the request form.
Starting 2020, campus activities were occasionally held in a remote-work format. Many lectures and classes were offered through Zoom.
The Technion Libraries continue to support the use of Zoom for remote studying and teaching, and will assist academic staff in utilizing it.
Tips and updates will soon be available on a new information page on the libraries’ website.
The Technion libraries newsletter is designed for the Technion community, covering the following topics:
- Updates and developments in academic writing, tools, databases and reference sources
- New databases
- New benefits for the Technion community and new academic tools available through the libraries
- Expert advice for conducting advanced literature searches in academic research.
- Other news an updates in the academic world
The newsletters are created and edited by the Information Specialists at the Reference and Information department of the Central Library.