LIBRARY
UNIGRANRIO is the largest educational institution in the Baixada Fluminense region (Metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro), with students coming from different municipalities. Therefore, due to the educational, scientific and social relevance of the University in the region, the Euclides da Cunha Library, located on the Program Campus, is one of the largest libraries in the Baixada Fluminense.
Currently, the Library's collection corresponds to 57,719 titles, of which 138,417 are copies. In the library's existing laboratory, 28 (twenty-eight) computers with access to the UP TO DATE system are available to the public. The space has the following human resources: 2 librarians, 1 assistant, 5 assistants and two young apprentices.
Inaugurated in 1972, the Library is open from Monday to Saturday. It has a Library Coordination Center (NCB), composed of 10 individual libraries, a Document Conservation and Restoration Unit (UCORE) and a Computer Laboratory. It occupies 2,000 m2, encompassing the reception, a collection hall, reading rooms, group study rooms, individual study booths and hall for exhibitions and events.
The Library has access to the Theses and Dissertations Base (BDTD), allowing data sharing with the Brazilian Library of Theses and Dissertations and with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (international database). Finally, there is access to the SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) database, which covers a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals. UNIGRANRIO has franchised access to the Scopus and Science Direct databases through the CAPES Journal´s Portal, which covers central publications on Biological and Health Sciences.
The CAPES Journal´s Portal is fully available to UNIGRANRIO professors, students and teaching researchers, offering access to the full texts of selected articles from international and national magazines. Currently, professors and students of Postgraduate programs have remote access to CAPES journals, in addition to the intense use of the UP TO DATE system – a database widely used by health academics, which provides articles written by renowned authorities on each topic and that facilitate the quick and effective updating of these professionals.
In addition to the extensive collection of the Library, users have Wi-Fi access in the reading rooms to different databases, such as:
- CAPES Portal: The CAPES Journal´s Portal is fully available to UNIGRANRIO professors, students and teaching researchers, offering access to the full texts of selected articles from international, national magazines. Currently, professors and students of Postgraduate programs have remote access to CAPES journals.
- My Library: is a platform formed by a consortium of 26 national academic book publishers: Authentic, Cengage, Cortez, Group A (Medical Arts, Artmed, Bookman, McGraw-Hill, AMGH, Penso and Tekne), GEN Group (AC Farmacêutica, Atlas, EPU, Forensic, University Forensic, Guanabara Koogan, LAB, LTC, Method, Roca, Santos), Loyola, Manole, Saraiva (Current and Erica) and Zahar. These publishers have come together to offer higher education institutions access to quality technical and scientific content over the internet through so-called cloud computing. Through My Library, students have quick and easy access to more than 9,000 academic titles, including major publications from different areas of knowledge. The platform allows the printing, free of charge, of 15 percent of the consulted works.
- Pearson Virtual Library: The Pearson University Virtual Library offers 7,608 titles in its online catalog of 36 book publishers with full texts, search features, annotations and printouts of parts against payment to the Publisher. The publishers that are part of the Pearson Virtual Library are: Ágora, Aleph, Atheneu, Ática, Autêntica, Blossom, Blucher, Brasport, Callis, Casa do Psicólogo, Companhia das Letras, Context, Difusão Editora, EdiPUCRS, EDUCS, Editora Eureka, Freitas Bastos, GLS, Summus Group, Interciencia, Intersaberes, Jaypee, Labrador, Lexikon, Manole, Mescla, MG Editores, Texts Workshop, Papirus, Pearson, Plexus, Rideel, Scipione, Black Seal Editions, Voices, Yendis.
- EBSCO: The EBSCO Database includes sub-bases in several areas of knowledge, with a broad collection of international scientific journals.
- SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online): Electronic library that covers a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals, specially developed to meet the needs of scientific communication in developing countries, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing an efficient solution to ensure visibility and universal access to your scientific literature.
- Thesis and Dissertation Databases (BDTD): UNIGRANRIO's Thesis and Dissertation Database is part of the Brazilian Consortium of Theses and Dissertations that, with support from FINEP, has been maintained by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology - IBICT . Its main objective is to register and disseminate the theses and dissertations elaborated and defended in the scope of the graduate programs of Public and Private Higher Education Institutions, through the “TEDE 2”software, developed by IBICT. It allows the sharing of data from UNIGRANRIO with the Brazilian Library of Theses and Dissertations and with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - NDLT, international database of Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations.
- The Library System provides accessibility to its users with special educational needs to different sources of information, through differentiated resources, such as access by ramps, the assistance to people with hearing needs performed by an interpreter of the Brazilian Sign Language - LIBRAS.
