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Library Collections & Facilities
What is it? Which literature do we have? How many copies?
BOOKS
There are about 400,000 books in the Scientific Library. The readers may find various collections, which are available in Kazakh, English, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Chinese and other languages. In addition, the SDU library has a collection of Science books that are classified according to the main courses of the readers as Math, Physics, Economics, Chemistry, Biology. The literature in English also include such fields of study as language teaching and learning, journalism, marketing, politics, psychology and others.
E-BOOKS
About 1500 e-books are available in the Library. The collection consists of Science and Literature books.
PERIODICALS
A periodical is anything that comes out with regular issues. A daily newspaper, a weekly news magazine, a monthly journal.
Every Thursday Library receives about 20-50 periodicals.
ONLINE DATABASES
The current databases of the SDU Library include EBSCOhost, РМЭБ, and national licensed databases as Elsevier, SpringerLink, Thomson Reuters.