The Library Services Centre

Prof. Mojmír Helísek Specialised Library

OPENING HOURS

LIBRARY - PRAGUE (Vltavská 12)

Mon - Fri: 08:00 - 12:00 ; 13:00 - 18:30

! Wed: 08:00 - 12:00 ; 13:00 - 17:00

LIBRARY CLOSED: 22. 12. 2023 - 1. 1. 2024

Books borrowed/prolonged from 7. 12. 2023 (Thu) have a deadline until 8. 1. 2024.
If you have recieved e-mail about your reservation being ready between 13. - 21. 12. 2023, we will hold the reservation for you until 4. 1. 2024 (Thu). If you can't pick it up until then, please let us know.
Opening hours for winter exam period will be posted at the start of January.

We recommend reserving your loans in advance via online catalog, max. 5 titles.

Contatcts for libraries and study centers in Karlovy Vary and Most are at the bottom of this page.

The Library Services Centre - Prof. Mojmír Helísek Specialised Library is a modern facility with high quality automated library system. It contains an extensive collection of books and periodicals and enables both searching and booking books up either directly from the library itself or remotely via the internet. The principles and standards of cataloguing meet international requirements.

The Library Services Centre of VSFS is fully available to students, academic staff and professional public.

With library fund containing almost 50 000 items, you can also find here foreign and czech periodicals, as well as over 24 000 ProQuest e-books and 165 EBSCO e-books.

The library also houses a computer study room with internet access in the library premises, databases retrieval (ProQuest Central, ASPI and Monitora) is available.

The library enables access to final theses of VSFS graduates.

All the library’s activities are governed by PDF The Library and Lending Regulations, 427 kB, that was enacted in November 2021.

The lending period is 14 days (if there are no reservations on the book, you can extend the lending period twice)
Limit is 5 books at once
Overdue books incur a fine of 10 CZK per day
There is no registration fee in the library for students

Library on-line catalog

Access to on-line catalog

The online catalog serves as a list of books available to loan in the library. After logging in (available only after registering in the library in person) you can use all the catalog functions (reservations, extending loan period or accessing loan history).

The titles listed in the catalog are not available to access online, unless specified as electronic resource.

PDF Online catalog - manual, 1.4 MB
(updated 15. 9. 2023; if you see an older version, refresh by Ctrl+F5)

FAQ

PDF Library FAQ, 467 kB
(updated 21. 4. 2021; if you see an older version, refresh by Ctrl+F5)

In case you did not find an answer for what you were looking for, do not hesitate to contact us at the e-mail below.

Electronic sources

Available via the IS main page, tile "UFA Library"

Proquest Central

Over 20 000 scientific resources, journal articles mostly.

Access: IS VŠFS -> "UFA Library" tile -> ProQuest

ProQuest Ebooks Central

Over 24 000 e-books with possibility of full download - see manual linked below.

Access: IS VŠFS -> "UFA Library" tile -> ProQuest Ebooks
Manual: proquestebooks_eng_2020.pdf, 398 kB

Access: IS VŠFS -> "UFA Library" tile -> EBSCO
Manual: EBSCO eBooks manual, 897 kB

Monitora

Czech media monitoring with fulltext access.

Access: IS VŠFS -> "UFA Library" tile -> Další přístupy (Other accesses) -> Monitora
! Available only through university IP address
! Login credentials available from the library staff

ASPI
Automated legal system with czech law with major Codes in English.

Access: IS VŠFS -> "UFA Library" tile -> ASPI

Národní digitální knihovna - Díla nedostupná na trhu (DNNT)

"National digital library - Works no longer available on the market" offers documents published in CZ (books up until 2001, periodicals up until 2011). In the database you can find documents under the copyright law (70 years from the death of the author has not yet passed) that are no longer available on the market, as well as "free documents" that are no longer under the copyright law.

Access to NDK-DNNT; login via ID NDK - how to set up, see manual below:
Manual: NDK - DNNT manual 2021, 781 kB

CONTACT US

Prof. M. Helísek Specialised Library - Prague

Address:	Vysoká škola finanční a správní, a. s. Vltavská 12 150 00 Praha 5
Phone:	(+420) 210 088 877 (+420) 210 088 864
E-mail:	knihovna@vsfs.cz
Contact:	Mgr. Tereza Rzymanová Library services (+420) 606 719 627 (also available through WhatsApp during working days) tereza.rzymanova@vsfs.cz