All the content you need can be found in a single search box. Follow the steps below to make the most of the search engine.
How to find different types of content:
Learn how to search for information
Find articles, books, journals, and other quality content to enrich your activities and final project.
Resources
Search the digital collection by field
Discover the sources of information the Library makes available to you: databases, digital books and journals, case studies, videos, images, human atlases and digital portals.
Library Guides
The Library team puts together dossiers with selected recommended content in different formats, from websites to videos, journals or books.
O2 Repository UOC, the institutional repository
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The UOC’s institutional repository is the portal for collecting, disseminating and preserving the open-access digital publications produced by members of the UOC. It includes articles, papers, teaching materials, final degree projects, doctoral theses, etc.
Self-training
A series of online seminars #InfoSkillsUOC
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You can learn to identify search terms, devise strategies to locate contents, and analyse and select information sources.
Infographic: How to enhance your searches
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Search for information quickly and effectively.
Databases
How databases work?
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Databases have their own platforms, however, they also share a number of general functions and features. We are going to show you some of these shared features.
Aranzadi
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The Aranzadi database offers access to current or former legal depositions, jurisprudence, bargains, etc.
VLex
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Vlex is a database with collective bargains, jurisprudence, doctrine, news, etc.
La Ley
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The La Ley database offers access to legislation, jurisprudence, agreements and forms.
Factiva-Reuters
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Factiva-Reuters is a major database of news and business information available through the UOC Library.
Search of skilled information
How to find theses
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There are many theses repositories containing the doctoral theses read at a given institution. Many others compile the content of other repositories based on, for example, geographical criteria. Learn how to find the doctoral theses you need.
How to find patents?
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Patents can be freely accessed via a range of online search tools such as FreePatentsOnline, Google Patent Search.
How to find statistical data
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Statistical agencies and institutes gather, process and distribute statistical data.
How to find recommendations, guidelines, rules and standards?
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Rules, standards, regulations and guidelines are documents that collate the methodological and technical specifications resulting from experience with or the development of a technology or activity.
Publication of academic works Configure
Standardization of Authors’ Names
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Want to find your publications in different databases but can’t because the author name is different in each case? Here at the Library we offer a custom service to standardize your author name. The service can answer any doubts and queries you might have.
Creative Commons Licences
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Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing legal barriers to sharing creative work.
A journal’s impact factor
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The impact factor is a bibliometric indicator that reflects the level of influence of a scientific journal.
Searching for citations on ISI Web of Science
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Here are details on how to find the citations of an author’s research work in the ISI Web of Science database.
Information Management
Evaluating information
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The evaluation of the information obtained must always be the final stage in the process of searching for information on the Internet, especially when it is for academic work, research, an article, a thesis, etc.
What is digital identity?
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Digital identity is quite simply your presence on the Internet. Digital identity is created proactively, by creating content, images, videos, establishing dialogue with other professionals within the sector, etc.