Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Services for academics and researchers

UCSC academics and researchers (including graduate teaching assistants, research fellows and PhD students) have a wide range of library services designed to facilitate their teaching and research.
 

  Services through My Library login


Logging in as registered user to your My Library personal area, you can:


check and manage your personal data, as:

  • your account

  • books return date

  • loan/consultation request status

  • library privileges suspension

  • a list of all your previous loan/consultation requests ("My reading history" function)

  • your personal rating of checked out books ("My ratings" function)
     

use UCSC OPAC more easily, by:

  • requesting books from any personal computer or device with internet access

  • requesting more books without repeating your authentication

  • saving searches previously performed as "preferred searches", to be reused at any time to check the availability of works about your favorite subject areas

  • real-time information (using the RSS "My feeds") about the status of your submitted loan/consultation requests and on loan volumes
     

  Off-campus access to electronic resources


For more information about access procedures and to use the service, plese click here:

»  Off-campus
 

  RefWorks (reference management software)


To start using Refworks or to receive assistance:

»   access to RefWorks  |  user quick start guide (by RefWorks)  |  e-mail to biblioteca.refworks@unicatt.it
 

For more information visit this page
 

  Purchase proposals


For more information visit this page
 

  Interlibrary loan and Document delivery


Further information about the different rules that regulate this service locally are available on the website of individual UCSC Libraries:

»  Milan campus Library  |  Piacenza-Cremona campus Library (in italian) |  Brescia campus Library (in italian)  |  Rome campus Library (in italian)
 

  Information literacy courses (for students groups)


For more information visit the page:

»  Information literacy

 

  Support for use of bibliometric databases and for publication strategies

 

For information and to use the service:

»  INNOVATION > Support for scientific publication

»  Bibliometric indicators