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Access to the Vatican Apostolic Library is not available to the general populace: The Library is open to:

researchers and scholars with appropriate qualifications and/or relevant scientific publications;
teachers and researchers at Universities and other institutes of Higher Education;
graduate students (laureati) who are pursuing research for a doctoral dissertation;
in exceptional cases, undergraduate students who can demonstrate that they need to consult material which is available only at the Vatican Library.
it is not open to High School students, nor, as a rule, to undergraduate University students.^[1]

In March 2014, the Vatican Library began an initial four-year project of digitizing its collection of manuscripts, to be made available online.

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↑ "Admission Criteria", Vatican Apostolic Library, https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/en/admission-in-bav/admission-criteria.html, accessed 2 February 2023.