The K-lab offers a complete range of resources, services, and spaces to meet the needs of students, faculty, programs, and researchers.
Through its activities, the K-lab pursues a dual ambition:
- Strengthening students’ information and digital skills
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Supporting faculty and programs to improve teaching methods and foster the school’s research activities
Learning Center
The Learning Center provides the entire ESSEC community with a rich collection of resources, diverse workspaces, and personalized services to foster independence in information research. Access is also open to external readers, by registration.
Innovative Spaces
The K-lab features 1900m² of dedicated spaces and equipment for learning and research, open 71 hours per week. These innovative environments, designed for new teaching and collaborative practices, serve as hubs for exchange, experimentation, and creation in support of education and research.
Expert Support
With a team of expert librarians, instructional designers, project managers, and multimedia specialists, the K-lab delivers a wide range of support services for all ESSEC community members:
Students and participants
Professors and program directors
Researchers
Collections
60 research and teaching databases
45,000 print books and ebooks
More than 100,000 electronic journals
2,500 theses and dissertations available online
Search for books, academic articles, databases and more in Discovery
The Learning Center offers the ESSEC community:
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books (course materials, novels, graphic novels)
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journals and DVDs
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iPads, Chromebooks, and accessories (headphones, chargers, DVD players)
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audiovisual kits (tripods, smartphone mounts, microphones)
All resources and equipment can be found in the Discovery catalog.
Developing users’ information and digital skills has always been a key priority. In coordination with programs, the Learning Center provides tailored training sessions to help students and participants master resources and strengthen their skills.
Training is also available to faculty and staff.
The K-lab is also a space for exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration based on learning by making. Workshops are designed to support all types of projects, whether academic, professional, student-led, or personal.
Examples include:
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Eco geek: best practices for digital sobriety
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Generative AI: first steps
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Introduction to video editing with Premiere Pro
Tailored assistance for documentary research!
The Learning Center offers its expertise to ESSEC students, executive education participants, professors, and staff members to assist them in their documentary research.
This service offers personalized assistance upon appointment to help you:
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Conduct effective documentary research
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Identify and utilize the most relevant resources for your projects
The interlibrary loan service provides access to materials from other libraries in France or abroad, as well as from documentation centers in institutions or companies.
How to proceed: send your requests for articles or books via our form.
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Our prices
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Book loan | Article copy |
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EBSLG, REVODOC and ACIEGE members |
reciprocity |
reciprocity |
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French librairies and companies information centers |
one IFLA voucher or reciprocity |
half an IFLA voucher for every 15 pages or reciprocity |
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International |
two IFLA vouchers |
one IFLA voucher for every 15 pages |
As part of its research support mission, the K-lab assists researchers with depositing publications, using bibliometric tools, and adopting open science principles.
The K-lab manages the ESSEC open archive portal (HAL ESSEC), particularly depositing working papers validated by CERESSEC, to enhance international visibility.
The service also monitors developments in the research ecosystem, such as the French national open science plan, new evaluation tools, and the creation of local open science barometers.
Access to the Learning Center is open to external readers with registration.
Registration provides:
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on-site consultation of documents
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on-campus access to subscribed resources, except for financial databases (Bloomberg, Orbis, Diane, LSEG Workspace, Capital IQ, WRDS including Compustat, IBES, CRSP, Audit Analytics), Factiva, and professional theses and dissertations
With proof of status:
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students from master 2 level (50€ per year or 10€ per day)
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faculty and researchers (50€ per year or 10€ per day)
Payment is by check, payable to A.G.E. (Association Groupe Essec).
Full text of articles from academic journals in psychology published by the American Psychological Association
Economic and financial data on public and private companies worldwilde
The ESSEC Library
Learning Center
The ESSEC Library has over 300 seats on 2 levels, with reading rooms and group or individual study rooms. Direct access to over 45,000 resources.
An augmented classroom
Learning Lab
A 200 m² flexible classroom with innovative equipment, including a video wall, interactive screens, and video recording system.
Create, produce, experiment
Design Lab
Computers equipped with multimedia software and a 3D printer are available to support users’ multimedia and artistic projects.
In addition to the Self-Service Studio, the Design Lab provides access to software dedicated to the production of graphic, multimedia, and artistic projects.
Coworking at the service of innovation
Open Lab
Coworking space with interactive equipment for collaborative projects.
A laboratory for experimental research
Data Lab
The ESSEC experimental research laboratory, equipped with 39 individual networked workstations, enables researchers and doctoral students to conduct experiments using specialized software for data collection and analysis.
Audio and video production spaces
Video studios
Video studios: automated, easy-to-use video recording studio.
ESSEC studio: professional recording studio for MOOCs and online courses.
Dive into the heart of the financial markets
FinLab
Unique in its kind, the FinLab faithfully replicates the conditions of a trading floor. Twelve Bloomberg terminals provide hands-on experience with one of the leading financial tools, offering a learning environment that closely mirrors real-world practice.
Training, workshops, content production, and scientific support: the K-lab provides students, participants, faculty, and researcher-professors with a comprehensive range of services to enrich the learning experience, foster creativity, and support research.
Tailored training
Resource discovery, research methodology, digital best practices
"Learning by making" workshops
Experimentation through practice, e.g. digital sobriety, generative AI, video editing, news monitoring, press review.
Research help
Personalized support to optimize research and resource use.
Course design
From course design to implementation, we support the development of face-to-face, hybrid, or fully online learning solutions, creating coherent and engaging learning pathways.
Digital content production
Interactive modules, videos, MOOCs, e-learning capsules... designed to maximize engagement and knowledge acquisition.
Pedagogical innovation
Support for experimental and scientific projects exploring new learning practices.
Technical support
LMS use, online course space design, and adoption of ESSEC’s digital teaching tools.
Research support
Depositing publications on HAL ESSEC, highlighting working papers, bibliometric tools, and open science adoption.
Our teams also monitor major developments in the scientific ecosystem (Open Science Plan, new evaluation tools, research barometers).
