University library "St. Kliment Ohridski"

National license for the ProQuest Central database

The Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Bulgaria provides access to ProQuest Central. ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary, full-text database containing scientific resources in all fields: business, healthcare and medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. Its collection includes thousands of full-text academic …

Trial access to Coherent Digital

From February 1, 2026, to March 31, 2026, the University Library is providing trial access to Coherent Digital. The company offers gray literature – policy reports, working papers, blogs, and other publications that are often missing from traditional academic databases. Included are the complete Applied Science Commons (https://appliedsciencecommons.net/) and Policy …

Library specialists and lecturers from leading Turkish universities visited the University Library

The guests learned about the history and activities of the University Library and viewed rare and valuable editions in Turkish. Dr. Selçuk Aydın from the Library Diplomacy and Projects Department at Istanbul University presented a lecture on library diplomacy as a new tool for cultural diplomacy. Prof. Alpaslan Hamdi Kuzujoglu …

“Language as a vocation”: An exhibition, dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Stefan Mladenov

The University Library and the University Archives Department present a collaborative exhibition, showcasing part of the literary legacy of Prof. Stefan Mladenov – a university lecturer and scholar, who devoted his life to the study of the Bulgarian language and was one of the most passionate defenders of its purity. …

The University Library presents the exhibition “In the World of Professor Bonyu Stoyanov Angelov”

The year 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Bonyu Angelov, a prominent philologist, paleoslavist, and literary historian. Scholars and researchers from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” organized large-scale events in his honor and initiated the digitization of a portion of his …

Working hours

Due to the National Enlighteners Day, the University Library will be closed on November the 1st (Saturday) and November the 3rd (Monday). By the order of the Rector of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” November the 3rd, 2025, has been declared a non-working and non-teaching day for all students, lecturers, …