SISSA Library Guide

The SISSA Library owns approximately 23,000 books, 4000 ebooks, 500 printed periodicals (100 of which are current), all SISSA preprints and all Magister and PhD Theses of SISSA and has access to about 7000 online journals.

Main interest areas covered are Astrophysics, Cognitive Neurosciences, Condensed Matter, Elementary Particles, Functional Analysis and Applications, Mathematical Physics, Neurobiology, Statistical and Biological Physics, Science Communication.

LOCATION AND FACILITIES

The Library is located at the first floor of the SISSA main building at via Bonomea n. 265. SISSA users can enter the Library during the night and the weekends using their SISSA card. At the entrance there is the loan desk and information service, four workstations to consult the on-line catalog, two photocopying machines, a displayer with the new acquisitions and a self-check desk. In the main library room the newly arrived journals are on display, the books follow the classification numbers.

ADMISSION AND BORROWING

The Library is open to all SISSA and ICTP scientists and students, and to other authorized users. The SISSA loan card is required to borrow books or bound journals. Outside researchers and students interested in borrowing books have to apply to the Library Head, presenting a written reference. Faculty members can borrow up to ten items (books or bound volumes of journals), students can borrow up to seven items, for a period of one month. Loan can be renewed, sending an email to: loandesk@sissa.it , provided that other users have not reserved the same material previously. A self-check desk can be used to borrow or return books during the night and the weekends. Unbound journals and reference books are available only for the in-library use. It is possible to make photocopies.

SERVICES: PHOTOCOPIES, INTERLIBRARY LOAN AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY, ACQUISITION PROPOSALS

Two photocopying machines are available in the Library, one standard machine and one colour. SISSA authorized users may ask for inter-library loan service and for articles in periodicals (if not available in the SISSA and ICTP libraries) by filling in an electronic form at the Library web site. An electronic form is available for acquisition proposals.

CATALOGUE

Our book and journals catalogue is searchable at: http://www.sissa.it/library It contains data and location of books, printed journals, SISSA preprints, SISSA Magister and PhD Theses. Our journals data are in the Italian Periodical Catalogue (A.C.N.P.).

CLASSIFICATION (SHELF ORDER)

We use the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) scheme for the sections of Mathematics (51), Astrophysics (52), Physics (53), Chemistry (54), Biology (57) and a simplified version of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) for the sections of Science Communication (001), Computer Science (004-006), Reference (030), Cognitive Neurosciences (150) and Linguistics (400).

ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

SISSA users have access to about 7000 full-text electronic journals, via IP recognition: The ACS (American Chemical Society) journals, all APA (American Psychological Association), Wiley-Blackwell, Springer-Kluwer, Cell Press, Elsevier, Institute of Physics Publishing, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press journals, Science, 14 Nature journals and reviews, 10 Annual Reviews, the APS (American Physiological Society) Legacy journals archive, the APS (American Physical Society) PROLA archive and many other journals on the library journals database at http://www.sissa.it/library/journals or through the link resolver SFX.

SISSA users have access to about 4000 full-text electronic books, via IP recognition:

- all ebooks of the SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics);

- the Elsevier Neuroscience ebooks;

- Springer ebooks in Physics and Astronomy, Mathematics and Statistics, Life Sciences and Chemistry;

- the Oxford University Press ebooks collections in: Neuroscience, Mathematics, Physics.

DATABASES

LIBRARY WEBPAGE

You can find links to reference sources (dictionaries, directories, physical and mathematical tables, style manuals, timetables, phonebooks, weather forecasts), preprint archives, scientific publishers, national libraries, other scientific and university libraries, the Italian national catalogue (SBN), the Italian national journals catalogue (ACNP) and other selected information sources.

SISSA DIGITAL LIBRARY

The SISSA institutional digital repository is an Open Archive based on the DSpace software and supports the OAI-PMH standard. It contains about 5000 records (more than 3000 full-text) of preprints, articles, book chapters, theses and lecture notes of SISSA authors.

Library Staff

LIBRARY OPENING HOURS:

Via Bonomea 265 I-34136 Trieste Tel: 040-3787-471 / -472 Fax: 040-3787-695

http://www.sissa.it/library

library at sissa.it