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The Library's new website

The new site is more accessible and intuitive, features a more powerful search engine, and has content to meet the needs of everyone in the UOC university community, grouped by field of study. Here are some of the main changes.

Website
The new search engine

Website

Improvements

The new website will be more visual and have a responsive design to meet the needs of all types of devices.
The main menu will present all of the Library's services and content for students, researchers and teaching staff. This means you can access the information you need with fewer clicks.
The Library search engine will be a prominent feature on every page.
Access to the Library's content and services will be gained with the same Virtual Campus login and password.
Upon accessing the new website, you will see your customized home page with the specific information you need for your learning, research or teaching.
In addition to the information you can find with the Library search engine, we have classified the content of the collection (journals, videos, databases, etc.) by the UOC's areas of study. This will allow to find what you are looking for more quickly and also discover new information of interest to you.

Key changes

The new Digital collection by field page (what used to be the E-resources page) lets you browse all the resources available from the Library by field of study.
The Library guides (currently known as Dossiers) provide a selection of recommended resources on a specific subject.
We made some changes, and in some cases grouped together, the general and specific services for teaching and research staff. Take a look at the table of changes.

New web	Previous website
Ask us to purchase a book	Acquisitions
Help finding information	Bibliographic Services
Request a book loan or an article	Loan and Electronic Documents Supply
Prepare for accreditation processes	Support Service for Accreditation Calls
Manage your search data	Research data management support service
Publishing with impact	Standardization of authors’ names, Where to publish, Editorial policies support, Plagiarism detection service i el Bibliometric reports
Publish open-access content in the UOC's O2 repository	Publish in the O2 Repository UOC
Request a library guide	Suggest a dossier
Analyse and improve learning resources	Zoom in on learning resources
Request a learning resources search	Learning resources search

Personalized pages

Students [Spanish]

Research staff [Spanish]

Teaching staff [Spanish]

The new search engine

Improvements

All the information you need with a single search box. The new search engine will cover the content of the Library, the UOC's O2 Repository and the courses' recommended reading. It will also allow you to expand your searches to the catalogue of other Catalan university libraries.
More effective. The new search algorithm provides more accurate and relevant results.
More filters. You can refine the results by filtering by, for example, language, year, format, journal and database.
New personal account, where you can consult the status of your book loan requests or digital articles.
New favourites space, where you can access your search history, content marked as favourites and your reading history to recover a document you have accessed in the past.

Key changes

- The dropdown list in the search box allows you to choose where to search for the information. If you cannot find the content you want, you can now broaden your search with the Catalan University Union Catalogue which includes results from other university libraries.

Using the button Extend the search beyond the UOC you will be shown books from other institutions which you can request on inter-library loan and digital articles which you can request from the Library.
You can make voice searches.
New filters, such as Open access and Peer-reviewed, have been added.
When there's more than one version or format for an item, you can choose which option you prefer.
If you're searching for a specific journal, take a look at the Journal search option from the search engine's top menubar. It lets you search by title or ISSN. You can also see which publications the Library subscribes to by subject area.
Each record has more information and options.