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, please vistit this page:

»  Off-campus
 

  Tool for managing bibliographic references

UCSC OPAC includes internal links to RefWorks, software that allows UCSC users to create and manage a bibliographic citations personal archive.

For further information and to use the software, please vistit this page:

» Reference management software

 
  Proposals for the purchase of books, journals and electronic resources


For more information, please vistit this page: 

» Purchase proposals

 
  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  |  Brescia campus Library  |  Rome campus Library
 

  Information literacy courses (for students groups)


For more information please visit this page:

»  Information literacy

 

  Support for use of bibliometric databases and for publication strategies

 

For information and to use the service, please vistit these pages:

»  INNOVATION > Support for scientific publication

»  Bibliometric indicators