Built-in digital tools provide state-of-the-art service to students and researchers, who can access hundreds of thousands of scientific documents from anywhere.
It has also boosted the international visibility of in-house research.
Face-to-face services have become only the tip of the iceberg of the possibilities offered by the Digital Library of the UCAM, which has experienced a strong advance in incorporating technologies that allow excellent support to research and all degrees, both face-to-face and online .
One of the most outstanding services is the search engine of the latest generation BUSCAM, which this year has triggered the number of searches, amounting to 8.5 million, offering access to the most cutting-edge scientific documents and with a higher impact index.
This service has multiplied the electronic resources accessible, which now are 381,400 monographs, 60,584 periodicals and 210 databases.
Likewise, the new version of the institutional repository of the UCAM, RIUCAM, has been implemented, which offers greater visibility of the scientific and academic production generated at the Catholic University of Murcia, thereby contributing to the dissemination of its scientific knowledge in open access , Even at an international level.
In order for researchers to obtain the greatest benefit from these services, the UCAM Library offers them training (identification profiles, information and access to resources) and specialized information to the doctoral students on bibliographical for the realization of their thesis.
With the aim of providing these services with the most comfortable and advantageous use, the UCAM Library has improved access to information from outside the campus, through new technologies, through the dissemination of information through its website , News and social networks.
And all this without forgetting the face-to-face service, both of its staff and of material resources.
Source: UCAM