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Situated at the heart of Western Europe, K.U.Leuven has been a centre of learning for almost six centuries. Founded in 1425 K.U.Leuven bears the honour of being the oldest Catholic university in the world still in existence and the oldest university in the Low Countries.
K.U.Leuven currently hosts around 35.347 students, it employs 8,017 people. It has 4,447 academic staff members (measured in full-time equivalents). The university hospitals employ 8,172 people.
In 2005, the total revenue of K.U.Leuven was EUR 506.8 million. Research expenditures were EUR 230 million. There ware 3,000 publications (in 2004) in international peer-reviewed academic and scientific journals. Leuven has 58 spin-off companies.
The university is composed of fourteen faculties, fifty departments, and over 240 subdepartments. There are sixty-two academic programmes in Leuven, twelve of which are partially in Kortrijk (bachelor's programmes only).
The University Library (Central library and 10 subsidiaries) contains 4.3 million volumes and more than 20.000 periodical subscriptions.
The University Library is a collective name for a broad spectrum of libraries: large and small, general and specialised, serving the various human, exact, applied and biomedical sciences. Most faculties have one large faculty library. They primarily contain the most frequently used specialised literature, whereas general and interdisciplinary works, older publications and the historical patrimony belong to the domain of the Central Library.
The Library of Business and Economics
Our library’s collection is located in the faculty. It comprises about 98.726 volumes. There are 410 current printed periodicals, statistics (FAO, ILO, UNCTAD and the World Bank) and annual reports.
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Our library maintains a large digital collection as well as books and periodicals in all domains of economy. We also have a collection of annual reports from primarily Belgian companies. Furthermore, many databases are available on-line or on CD-Rom.
The library provides 300 wireless study places to students, including 50 desktops, 5 group workrooms and 2 PC-rooms with another 50 desktops.
In February 2005 we started with a new library system, i.e. "Aleph". Such catalogue queries provide data not only on the publications in the local library, but also on material contained in other K.U.Leuven libraries and even in other Belgian libraries.
You can find information about individual journal articles (by subject index or by author) through the many bibliographical databases, to which one has access from every PC connected to the university network.
The special access software "LibriSource" allows you to make among these databases a selection adapted to your own field of study. In order to obtain a copy of the articles, it is sometimes possible to "click through" to the full text version, if this is available online.
Here are some examples of databases, online newspapers and periodicals you can find in our library:
- Bel-First - Annual financial statements of 290,000 Belgian companies and 200 important companies in Luxembourg.
- Amadeus - Amadeus is a European financial database with information about 10,000,000 companies in 41 countries.
- Datastream - The historical-financial database. Datastream contains worldwide financial and economic data.
- Mediargus, Financial times, the Economist, Business week and the Harvard business review
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