Weekdays (Monday - Thursday): 08h00-20h00
Friday: 08h00-17h00
Saturday: 08h30-12h30
Sunday and Public holidays: Closed
Situated in the basement of the Oppenheimer Life Sciences (OLS) Building, East Campus. Biophy is the scientific library and covers the following schools: Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences (APES), Chemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB) and Physics.
Biophy Library holds approximately 60,000 print journal volumes and 25 thousand books. Some journals are received both in print and online.
A Special collection, the Paine Collection (History of Physics), is housed in the BioPhy Library.
Bound Journals from 1992 - the present are housed in the Library.
Journals from 1976 - 1991 are kept at the compactus (moveable shelving) at the back of the Library, downstairs.
Bound journals can be borrowed for 3 days , unbound current journals can be borrowed for 1 day.
Overnight books are issued out at 12:00 midday and MUST be returned the following day before 9:30am.
Books can be renewed over telephone except Overnight books by telephone 011 7171960, There is a book return box close to the library main entrance where items can be returned at any time.
Library Assistant: Darly Ndlovu: +27 (0)11 717 1960
Library Assistant: Ntombi Nkutha: +27 (0)11 717 1960
Library Assistant: Christopher Mafika: +27 (0)11 717 1960
