Library Information Resources

General Collections

With more than a quarter million print volumes, more than one million ebooks, access via approximately 250 databases to over 159,000 journals and other serials and millions of full-text articles, we support WPI's intensive use of information for project work and multidisciplinary collaboration.

CONTACT
Location: George C. Gordon Library
Phone: +1-508-831-5410
Fax: +1-508-831-5829

The Gordon Library’s collections of books, journals, databases, manuscripts, audiovisual and other materials are principally chosen to support the WPI curriculum, and student and faculty research.

For more information about the library’s collection policies, including our policies for making gifts or gifts-in-kind to the collections, please see our policies page.

For more detail on information resources made available by the library, please see:

Archives and Special Collections

The library's Archives and Special Collections feature WPI history, the industrial history of Worcester, the history of science and technology generally, and fire protection engineering. A highlight is our extensive collection of the published works of Charles Dickens, many made available through Digital WPI, and Dickens-related manuscripts and research materials, in addition to art.

For more information about the holdings of Archives and Special Collections, please see:

Digital WPI

Digital WPI offers open global digital access to nearly 20,000 student project reports and research, and showcases the records and impacts of WPI throughout its history. Digital WPI also includes digital access to unique cultural materials held at WPI, including personal and corporate records, historical records, and rare published materials held by Archives and Special Collections.