Library
The UFSC University Library (BU/UFSC) has invested in improving the quality of its products and services and seeks constant innovation, following the trends in the field. It is the mission of the BU/UFSC to provide information services to the university community in order to contribute to knowledge construction and to the development of society. It seeks to be a reference in providing information services guided by Ethics, Competence, Quality, Cooperation, Innovation, and Commitment. The physical collection of the BU/UFSC consists of books, dissertations and theses, journals, audiovisual materials, technical standards, and other materials, reaching 256,142 titles and 886,818 copies. In 2018, it grew by 3.58%, mostly from donations, given that the number of titles acquired per purchase did not reach 100 that year. In addition to the physical collection, there are several online information platforms and sources for research. Some are e-books (Springer, Atheneu, Zahar, IEEE, e-BOOK Collection – EBSCOhost, Willey online library), and others are resources made available through annual subscriptions, such as ABNT: electronic collection, Dissertation and theses, DynaMed – Evidence-Based Medicine (subscription via the Ministry of Health), Ulrichs Web, UptoDate – subscription via the University Hospital).
In addition, UFSC community has access to the Journals in the Portal of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), a virtual library that gathers and makes available to education and research institutions in Brazil the best of international scientific production. It has a collection of more than 45 thousand titles with full texts, 130 reference bases, and 12 bases dedicated exclusively to patents, in addition to books, encyclopedias and reference works, technical standards, statistics, and audiovisual content. Open access resources produced by the institution itself are made available on the BU/UFSC Portal, such as:
a) the UFSC Journal Portal: 44 scientific journals produced by the university;
b) Institutional Repository: provides the dissertations, doctoral theses, and program completion papers, and contents of the university laboratories and research centers.
UFSC provides students of the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Program free access to the CAPES Journal Portal, where more than 1,700 journal titles in Health Sciences are available at the terminals of the University Library and throughout UFSC. In the field of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 54 journal titles are available on the CAPES Portal. The Central Library has Information Accessibility that meets the information demands of UFSC students with disabilities. It offers Braille, digital, and audiobook collections, the adaptation of material to digital and Braille format, computers and scanners with accessible software, audio descriptions and reader services, the loan of assistive technology equipment, and user guidance and advice on information accessibility for the academic community.