SISSA Library Guide

The SISSA Library owns approximately 20,000 books, 500 printed periodicals (200 of which are current), all SISSA preprints and all Magister and PhD Theses of SISSA and has access to about 6000 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 Beirut n. 2-4. At the entrance there is the loan desk and information service, the reference shelf, three workstations to consult the on-line catalog, two photocopying machines, a displayer with the new acquisitions. In the reading room the newly arrived journals are displayed in two sections (Physics and Life Sciences). In the main library room the journals are arranged on shelf in alphabetical order, 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 five 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. Unbound journals and reference books (at the reference shelf near the loan desk) are available only for the in-library use. It is possible to make photocopies.

PHOTOCOPIES

Two photocopying machines are available in the Library, one standard machine and one colour: they can be used with a SISSA code. Non-SISSA members and ICTP users should ask the Loan Desk assistant.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY

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.

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 6000 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, 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.

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 3000 records (more than 2000 full-text) of preprints, articles, book chapters, theses and lecture notes of SISSA authors.

Library Staff

LIBRARY OPENING HOURS:

Via Beirut 2 I-34014 Trieste Tel: 040-3787-471 / -472 Fax: 040-3787-695

http://www.sissa.it/library

library at sissa.it