Our specialization is the documents and information resources in the areas of naval engineering and civilian navy, designed to support the studies that are taught at the faculty.
Use the different tools to find what you are looking for: the search engine DiscoveryUPC, the databases i UPCommons (the open knowledge portal of the UPC).
With this guide we help you locate journal articles, paper or electronic books, databases, regulations, academic works and other relevant resources of thenautical field
You can also check other thematic guides of the libraries of the UPC (physics, mathematics, materials engineering, electronics, electricity, mechanics...)
Remotely access the collection of electronic resources in the field of sailing.
Remember to installe-bib in order to be able to validate you as a user UPC and have access to it from any computer.
Recommended bibliography to the teaching guide of the degrees and master's degrees taught at the Faculty. If you only want to view the recommended books and e-resources, make sure the "Show only e-resources" box is checked. 
We offer you, in digital format, the exams which makes us reach the faculty.
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We help you in the elaboration of the academic works:
- Elaboration of the Final Degree and Master's theses at the FNB
- 6 steps to make your TFG / TFM a success
- Consultation repository: the academic dissertations of all the degrees of the FNB can be located by means of the DiscoveryUPC . Electronic works, provided the author has authorized them, are accessible online at UPCommons. Pre-2009 works on paper can be consulted on site at the library and as they are not published works are excluded from loan.
Digital platform that allows consultation and access to the full text of IMO (International Maritime Organization) publications such as conventions, codes, regulations, recommendations and guidelines. It has advanced search options, a figure viewer that allows you to enlarge images and a table viewer that makes it easier to scroll through large tables.
To consult IMO ePublications contact the FNB Library.
AIS FNB-UPC is an open database that provides access to AIS data collected by the antennas of the Faculty of Nautical Sciences of Barcelona of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia-(FNB-UPC). The tool offers functions to download, filter and query AIS data.
Sea-Web is a database that includes all the information in the LLoyd's List and the characteristics of ships that acquire an IMO number again. It contains more than 600 data fields of more than 200.000 ships larger than 100 GT (detailed information on the ship, companies, builders, ports, accidents, etc.). The subscription includes the "Movements" module that allows you to consult all the stops of the last year in any port in the world.
You must request access credentials for FNB library staff.
With Enormous you can access the complete collection of UNE Standards, including ratified (adapted but not translated standards) and discontinued. The contents can be printed exclusively for internal use and copies cannot be archived or scanned. You need to validate yourself with your credentials UPC to be able to consult the database.
In the library you will find magazines in paper and also electronic format.
Paper includes magazines that have been received for years but are no longer received as well as magazines to which we still subscribe.
In the Discovery UPC you can check these paper magazines, as well as the electronic journals.
In the 2022-23 academic year, we have started to offer the collection "Stay up to date with the magazines" with summaries of the magazines received.
We lend you the paper magazines and, if you are a teacher, you can tell us the number and year of the magazine and we will send it to the office.
Stay up to date with what's happening in the maritime and nautical sector with the magazines.
Aside from technical resources, you can find novels, comics, movies, expedition books, and travel and personal stories related to the sea. Take a look!
You can also consult the libraries:
Woman, also take a look at the exhibitions and activities from the library.
The collection "A sea of games" of the Library of the Faculty of Nautical makes available to the community UPC a selection of board games, with nautical and marine themes of all kinds, with the aim of providing enjoyment in free time of leisure and entertainment.
We also have a small collection of role playing games.
You can access the documents of our old collection and the Historical and equity fund, one of the most important in the field of nautical sciences.
At the end of 2025, the library conducted a survey to find out what knowledge the FNB community has of the library's Old Collection and what use it makes of it. Our goal with this action is to think of actions, activities and improvements in relation to these materials that describe the past of our school.
Check them out survey results.
You can see them youtube Recorded during the lectures and acts of the school.
The library has the Fund José Pérez del Río, professor and senior academic at the Official Nautical School (today Barcelona Nautical Faculty) where he entered as a student in 1924 and was later a professor and academic secretary.
If you want to look for what has been published in the paper journals that the library receives, consult