Library

The ITECH library offers 16 500 documents:

  • Our documentary catalog includes over 41,000 sources, with 31,000 available in digital format (approximately 30,700 articles and 300 books).
  • 117 subscriptions to periodicals and 50 ongoing, on the following subjects: Paints, coatings and surface treatment, inks, adhesives, general chemistry, rheology, polymer chemistry, plastic materials and composites, textiles, leather health-safety and working conditions, biotechnologies, economy and live of businesses, languages (English, Spanish, German…), general information revues, general science, social sciences.
  • 15,350 documents in paper format
  • 2,160 monographs (lessons, exercises, annals, conventions, directories, …)
  • 1,050 French and international norms
  • 1,400 Final Year Reports of engineering and Advanced Master’s
  • 273 congresses and conferences
  • 234 thesis’s
  • 75 multimedia documents.
  • 74 general and specialized encyclopedias

To these documents we can also add instruction sheets, toxicology sheets and security information sheets in order that all users of chemical substances can always be at their disposal.

Collections are continuously updated through acquiring new documents.

An intranet portal for various intranet and internet links allow students to diversify their research and to expose them to other teaching resources (online library catalogues, scientific article data base, encyclopaedic indexes, French and international patents, translation sites, new purchases, scientific reports, how to write bibliographies).

Agreements were signed so as students could work with the library’s of the IFTH (the French Institute of Textile and Clothing) and the CTC (the Technical Leather Center), in order to do bibliography research in these fields.

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Why study in Lyon?

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Why study in Lyon?

Lyon is a cosmopolitan and welcoming student city that never ceases to surprise!