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Tilburg University, founded in 1927, is a fully accredited government financed university with almost 10.000 students, with a library of 60 FTE staff. Tilburg University specializes in the social sciences and humanities.
The university has five faculties: Economics and Business Administration, Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Philosophy, and Arts.
An independent Faculty of Theology is affiliated with the university. Within these faculties, 22 degree programmes are offered, some of which have an interdisciplinary character.
Tilburg University has a highly sophisticated library system and provides 950 study places to students, including over 500 student desktops. Every one of the 10.000 students and 1.600 staff members has an e-mail address and access to the Internet.
The library has implemented a completely new electronic learning centre.
Special units of the library are the European Documentation Centre and the Brabants Film Archive.
Special databases produced and maintained by the library are: Brabant Historical Databases, Excerpta Informatica Database, Research Papers in Economics (in economics).
Collections
The library’s collection is located in a central building and comprises 800.000 volumes, including books, loose-leaf series, images, old prints and manuscripts, and 2.200 current periodicals. The collection covers the following subjects:
- Economics
- Computer science
- Law
- Language and literature
- Philosophy
- Noord-Brabant
- International organizations and statistics
- European Union
The library of the Theological Faculty is located in a separate building.
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The library collects material from all over the world in all the major languages and maintains extensive collections from international organizations such as the OECD, the UN (incl. FAO, ILO, UNCTAD, WHO), the WTO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. A European Documentation Centre is hosted.
More information on Tilburg's economics collection profile can be found here.
Institutional Repositories
Tilburg University Library runs a document server for archiving online material. Since 1995 the server contains economics working papers from Dutch universities and research institutes. It also contains a growing number of scientific publications from Tilburg University staff and student’s thesis.
Digital Library Projects
Tilburg University has become well-known for innovative digital library and IT solutions over the last decade. Current projects are as follows:
- iPORT, an integrative portal software solution (product of the EU Decomate I & Decomate II Projects)
- ARNO (Academic Research in the Netherlands Online)
- CoMa (development of a database for Copyright Management)
- DEGREE (Dutch Electronic GREy files in Economics)
- Apollo (design of an E-learning environment)
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