ICN Library

Knowledge Hub

The Knowledge Hub is the school's e-resources portal. Here you can access e-books and academic literature, read newspapers and dissertations from the school's different programmes, or download economic and financial data, and information on markets and businesses. The portal also provides access to:

  • the Bloomberg, CapFinancials, Statista, MarketLine and Xerfi databases,
  • academic articles on Business Source Complete EBSCO, ABI Inform from Proquest, Emerald Insight, Sage Publishing, CAIRN, as well as the ISTEX directory (national licence),
  • Elsevier's the Scopus indexing and citation database
  • the press platform Europresse,
  • the video platform Arte Campus,
  • unlimited access to almost 200,000 ebooks on ScholarVox Management by Cyberlibris,
  • video tutorials and subject specific pages.

You can use the search engine on the homepage to search all of the academic databases with a single query and there is an advanced search or A to Z function to suit the needs of researchers.

The K'Hubs

There are three K'Hubs for ICN students and researchers, one on each campus in Berlin, Paris and Nancy (Station A). The K'Hub is an area designed for individual or group work and featuring a wide range of facilities (wall-mounted and mobile white boards, monitors, small items of equipment). You can access electronic resources managed by ICN librarians as well as a chat function for remote assistance.

The ARTEM multimedia library

The ARTEM multimedia library is the result of an innovative partnership between the public and private sectors. The site is co-managed by the University of Lorraine, ENSAD and ICN Business School, and welcomes students and researchers from the ARTEM campus in Nancy. With three extensive collections covering economics-business-management, the arts and engineering, there are more than 40,000 titles for users to view and borrow. The ARTEM multimedia library also offers numerous study spaces for students, including group study rooms that can be booked online.