The Slovak Informatics Library (SIK) was established in 2010 as a faculty workplace that serves as a specialized library focused on the field of informatics and information technology, a central library for working with professional literature in its field within the Slovak Republic, and a central library and information center for the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. It has been a member of SLA (The Slovak Library Association) since 2020.
The library provides library services to students, faculty staff, and other interested members of the public.
Provided services
- Absentee lending services for books, lecture notes, and anthologies for readers registered with the library
- Interlibrary loan service for documents not found in the SIK collection
- consultation services for searching for information from the electronic catalog of faculty libraries electronic information sources in licensed databases, searching in the catalogs of other libraries,
- recording and processing the publication activities of faculty employees and students.
Library and lending rules of the Slovak Informatics Library FIIT STU 
(June 1, 2022)
Electronic information resources
Publications – overview of all publications by teaching, research and other staff at STU
Faculty libraries catalog – joint catalog of all STU faculties with records from 1 January 2005 (except FCHPT)
Licensed databases
ACM Digital Library is a full-text database from a well-known American company (ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY) with articles from all of its journals (50 titles) and proceedings (270 titles).
IEEE Xplore - the most comprehensive full-text database (more than 2 million documents) in the field of information and communication technologies, electrical engineering, and electronics.
SpringerLink - a platform for online access to approximately 1,630 journals published by SPRINGER.
Citation databases
Scopus – the most extensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed articles from Elsevier journals.Web of Science – a multidisciplinary database. It contains bibliographic data, including abstracts and citations of works in the field of research and development.
Other licensed databases accessible to STU within the NISPEZ project.
Open access professional journals
Electronic Journals Library (EZB) – the electronic journal library contains links to more than 20,000 journals, of which approximately 9,000 are freely accessible. Both English and German versions are available.
Information on how to search individual information sources and other questions regarding library services and document searches can also be sent electronically to: sik[at]fiit.stuba.sk.
