| The University of Amsterdam has a huge library with | | | | as well as quantitative data. The library gives search |
| books and publications from all over world. One cannot | | | | results of eminent professors from all over the world. |
| picture the library as a single building or a row of | | | | The database for the professors can be retrieved by |
| buildings in which all the books are stored and | | | | means of institutional name, people (members of staff), |
| displayed. The Library of the UvA is located in a range | | | | country as well as subject. |
| of buildings all over Amsterdam. In addition to the | | | | The UvA Digital Academic Repository (commonly |
| central UvA Library (commonly known as UB) which is | | | | known as UvA-DARE) is a service which includes |
| located at the Singel, one can find faculty libraries. | | | | national and international network of scientific and |
| When taken as a whole all these libraries have around | | | | scholarly information services. Any author who wants |
| four million volumes and a large collection of | | | | to store the electronic version of his/her publication can |
| manuscripts. | | | | do it safely through UvA-DARE. The digital repository |
| The online guide to the international academic world is | | | | is managed by the Library of the Universiteit van |
| known as the World of Learning. It is the standard | | | | Amsterdam. Through the repository the references of |
| reference work for any simple information, like contact | | | | one's publications becomes available within the |
| data especially on academic institutions world-wide. | | | | international network of information services. As a |
| These institutions include universities, research centers, | | | | result of which the visibility of one's publications is |
| libraries and archives, museums and learned societies. | | | | increased. The UvA Digital Academic Repository also |
| The data which can be collected on these institutions | | | | makes available publications of hundreds of other UvA |
| include postal address, telephone and fax numbers, | | | | authors. At any given time there is a maximum of 4 |
| e-mail and internet address, members of staff, | | | | simultaneous users. |
| corporate journals, quite often and a mission statement | | | | |