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ESPCI Paris - PSL
ESPCI Paris - PSL is a major institution of higher education (a French "Grande École d’ingénieurs"), an internationally renowned research center, and a fertile ground of innovation for industry. Founded by the City of Paris in 1882, for over a century the School has attracted leading scientific innovators like Nobel Prize laureates Pierre and Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Georges Charpak, who continue to contribute to the institution’s international reputation. The School’s culture of excellence remains as vibrant as ever. Fully 60% of (…)
Educational programs
Welcome to PSL University! By joining ESPCI paris- PSL, you also join PSL university and its 17 000 students. You get access to an exceptionnel education in sciences, arts, litterature and culture. From Bachelor to PhD, academic programs cover all the fields from sciences, human and social sciences, engineering and arts. PSL targets high-potential students, from every horizon, an accompagnies them towards excellence. Your education will be operated by ESPCI paris - PSL, and your degree delivered by PSL University. Discover the education programs of PSL University Ingénieur ESPCI Paris (…)
Research
ESPCI Paris - PSL is home to 10 research laboratories (all of them being endorsed and jointly sponsored by CNRS) operating at the frontiers of scientific knowledge and experimental know-how, extending from fundamental research to innovation, and covering areas ranging from polymers to telecommunications, from nanobiophysics to organic synthesis, from environmental science to biomedical imaging, from neurobiology to microfluidics, from soft matter to quantum physics, and from colloids to prototyping for industry. ESPCI researchers publish around 500 scientific articles in leading (…)
Innovation
- Inventions
- Entrepreneurship and business start-ups
ESPCI: generating innovation and jobs ESPCI is also known for its capacity to encourage major innovations. Did you know that as well as radium, polonium, actinium and lutecium, many other objects from our everyday lives were first discovered or created at ESPCI, like the neon tube, the black box, the quartz watch, sonar, wireless technology, self-healing rubber or even ultrafast ultrasound imaging? An entrepreneurial culture More and more graduates create their own companies after graduation or after their PhD. This capacity to innovation is highly valued today. ESPCI courses (…)
Internationalisation
The Department of International Relations is pursuing the intellectual globalisation, ambitioned since the foundation of our institution, in postgraduate education and interdisciplinary research, and welcoming the most talented people from around the world. We are focusing on branding of the iconic French elite engineering education and boosting european and international mobilities throughout the world-distinguished institutions. French Engeering Degree webpage Master Programme webpage Doctoral Study webpage
Support Us
ESPCI Paris is at the center of a large network of partnering agreements. These are three-way institutional partnerships - notably with the City of Paris, and ParisTech -, as well as academic, scientific and industrial partnerships enriched by the School’s energy, expertise and creativity. The commitment to transdisciplinarity extends beyond the School’s Paris campus. Today’s complex scientific and technological issues often demand a broader view and collaboration, with the deployment of complementary, hybrid approaches and the sharing of best practices in order to pool resources and (…)

Library

The library of ESPCI Paris-PSL was inaugurated in 1933 by Paul Langevin (1872-1946), director of the school.

Our missions are to provide students, research professors with the documentary resources (printed and electronic) and bibliographic tools necessary for research and teaching. We have specialised collections in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering sciences and mathematics.

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Available at ESPCI

Catalogue: printed books, journals and thesis, archives, instruments and works of art of ESPCI.

PC Explore : ESPCI and PSL printed and electronic resources (available on site at the library or from an ESPCI IP adress).

PSL libraries resources

PSL Explore: All ressources of PSL libraries network (online and paper)

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If you are member of the ESPCI community, you may get access to ebooks and online journals owned by ESPCI or PSL via your IP adress. At a distance, you must use OpenVPN.

As part of the Library, the Historical Resource Center (CRH, Centre de Ressources Historiques) preserves and provides archival material related to the ESPCI’s historical and scientific heritage. It is open to scholars interested in the history of science, scientific communities, scientific instruments and education.
List of publications on the history of the ESPCI Paris

To fulfil its dual mission of documentation and heritage, the ESPCI Paris library draws on the institution’s own resources, the versality of its team, and the cooperation with Paris Sciences et Lettres libraries (PSL), university libraries, documentation centres of researching structures (CNRS).
The library is member of national shared conservation network, to preserve its journals collections, since 2016. It’s member of Couperin consortium since 2001.

Useful informations

Opening schedule

The library is open from 9am to 10pm (Monday-Thursday) and from 9am to 9pm (Friday).
Anticipated closing at 5 :30pm during school holidays.

During summer break :
=> Library access is only allowed to ESPCI students (including PhD students) and to registered students (PSL).
=> Archives are close.

Contacts

ESPCI Paris - Bibliothèque, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris cedex 05

Access : Bâtiment A rez-de-chaussée

Library : bibli@espci.psl.eu | 01 40 79 46 58

Historical Ressources Center (archives) : crh@espci.psl.eu | 01 40 79 44 32

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