ISL Information Centre/Library

The ISL Information Centre/Library is a leading centre in Europe for information and documentation in the maritime economics and logistics. We offer professional service about industries, markets and companies within the knowledge areas:

  • Shipping, Shipbuilding, Ports
  • Transport, Logistics
  • Economic and Trade

The ISL Information Centre provides up-to-date information in high quality and completeness.

ISL-SEABASE

The literature database ISL-SEABASE represents with more than 101.000 bibliographic records (January 2009) an important knowledge source for industry and commerce, research and education. The database increases each year by about 4,000 bibliographic records.

All new entries of the ISL library are bibliographical recorded and made available as regards content (descriptors, abstracts). 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 developed in the ISL "Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik". Digital documents increasingly are included as a full text under consideration of the copyright.

The ISL-SEABASE offers an easy online research access. It offers a systematic access to current maritime and logistic knowledge.

ISL Library

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 (at January 2009), of which are 28,000 monographs and 26,000 annual publications. More than 230 professional journals are kept regularly. The internet and electronic media have a common place in our library.

The ISL Library is open to the public as well as for clients from economics and science. Use of the library is free of charge, a copier is available.

Services

Our Services:

Gladly we 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.