ISL Information Centre / Library

The ISL Information Centre is the leading institution in Europe for information and documentation in maritime economics and logistics. Beside the literature database ISL SEABASE and the reference library in Bremen, the Information Centre offers professional services about industries, markets and companies within the knowledge areas:

• Shipping, shipbuilding and ports
• Transport and logistics
• Economic and trade

The literature database ISL SEABASE represents more than 105,000 bibliographic records (September 2011) and is an important knowledge source for industry and commerce, research and education. The database increases by about 4,000 bibliographic records each year. All new entries of the ISL library are bibliographical recorded and made available as regards content. Besides reference books also market studies, research and conference reports, economy statistics as well as business and annual reports are included. Contributions from about 230 national and international professional journals are evaluated selectively after relevance. The literature evaluation and enquiry is based on the thesaurus "Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik" - developed by ISL. Digital documents are included as a full text under consideration of the copyrights. The ISL SEABASE research is available online and offers a systematic access to current maritime and logistic knowledge.

The ISL reference library, which exists since 1954, is one of the biggest libraries in the area of maritime economics and logistics with a total stock of about 125,000 books (September 2011), of which are 30,000 monographs and 29,000 annual publications. Furthermore 750 professional journals and series are kept regularly.The ISL Library is open to the public and the use is free of charge. A reading room, online working spaces and a copier are available.

• Online search (ISL SEABASE)
• Electronic Journal Library (EZB)
• Information and personal consultation
• Individual research orders
• Creation of special customer profiles
• Full text service in the context of copyright

We will provide you an offer about individual, topic-referred searches and information services. In addition to the extensive resources of the ISL, also external sources of information could be included into the inquiry. The prices of our services are computed after expenditure of time and range of the information made available.

Contact: library@isl.org