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General information (card)
The University card enables you to make use of our services. This card is provided to people who are part of the university community: Students, PDI and PAS.
For those groups that are not currently linked to the UVa, but have the right to access some of our services. The card can be requested at any of the different libraries that make up the Service.
Further information: Explanatory leaflet
The Library has 1 video, oriented to the PDI (teaching and research staff), where we explain the most important aspects of our website:
Video on Youtube "PDI Do you know the UVa Library website?"
The Library has 1 video, aimed at students, where we explain the most important aspects of our website:
Thumbnail of the Youtube video "tudent Do you know the UVa Library website?"
Tutorials and information sexenios call for proposals 2023
All the information concerning the current call is being updated on the ANECA call 2023 website.
https://www.aneca.es/convocatoria-2023
It will also be of interest:
Guide "Library with Research-BcI": https://biblioguias.uva.es/BCI
Interesting: ANECA is clarifying some of the most burning questions about this call in its FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.
Likewise, you can also ask for support to ANECA through its portal through its ANECA responds service.
The library of the University of Valladolid has set up an e-mail address for any query or request for advice in relation to this call for sexenios: sexenios.biblioteca.universitaria@uva.es
Access the template of metrics and quality indicators, adapted to the criteria of the current call for sexenios... HERE
InInfographic REBIUN sexenios Call 2023
You can also access the document prepared for the training session held on 16 January by our colleagues from the Segovia Campus Library
You can also send an email to sexenios.biblioteca.universitaria@uva.es
The Complutense University Library has also carried out training sessions on these topics, which you can see on their Youtube channel:
- Sexenios 2023: main novelties and recommended metrics
- Sexenios 2023 workshop: Health and Experimental Sciences 15012024
- Sexenios 2023 Workshop: Humanities and Social Sciences
- How to exclude self-citations in Web of Science and Scopus
From the Library/CRAI of the Pablo Olavide University:
From the International University of La Rioja (UNIR):
This session explains the main aspects that a researcher must take into account when selecting his or her best contributions. It also explains how to defend them with solvency, making use of quantitative and qualitative indicators that accredit their academic and social value. In addition, the new features of the current Aneca call (open science, qualitative assessment or narrative bibliometrics, among others) are detailed.
Services Tutorials
In the following videos you can see how to request books from other UVa libraries and how to renew books that still allow it:
The Yutera Library has produced the following video where the steps to follow for a good bibliographic search are outlined:
In the following documents you will see how to access WoS and Scopus if you are outside the UVa domain:
Below is a series of guides, produced by Library staff, on Research:
- Library Guide to Research (BcI): https://biblioguias.uva.es/BCI
- Guide to the UVa Transformative Agreements to publish in open access: https://biblioguias.uva.es/Acuerdos/transformativos
- Research data: https://biblioguias.uva.es/datos-investigacion
- Guide to Evaluation of research activity: https://biblioguias.uva.es/EvaluacionInvestigacion
If you have difficulty for the machine to detect your vTUI (UVa app card), move your mobile phone as far away as possible from the reader, and use the reduced option of the card.
General tutorials (Dialnet, WoS, Scopus, InCites...)
If you want to know how to get the most out of the Almena catalogue, the following guide will make it easier:
The UVa Library has two tools that will help you in the use of Dialnet
FECYT, together with Clarivate Analytics and Elsevier, makes available to the scientific and research community all the necessary material for both classroom and online training courses, as well as the recordings that have been made of the different courses that have been carried out for subsequent viewing by those interested. It can be consulted at:
Training material (Pdf and vídeos)
You can also find training material on the Clarivate website:
Guide-WOS-2023 (Prepared by BUVa Central Services staff)
On the Clarivate website, you can view the following training documentation on Journal Citation Reports (JCR):
Also look at tutorials by subject area, as there you will find recordings and specific material by area of knowledge.
- ProQuest Guides:
- ProQuest-Ebook Central training session, held in May 2025 for the UVa community:
- ProQuest-Central training session, held in May 2025 for the UVa community:
Presentation on "Normas APA-2023" (Personal elaboration Segovia Campus Library)
On 15 November 2023 an online training session was held for the UVa Community on the Mendeley bibliographic manager. You can watch the recording of the session in the following link:
Below you can access a tutorial about this manager:
More information:
- Migration to Mendeley from other bibliographic managers
- Pills from Oliver Martín, UCM librarian, about the new Reference Manager: Youtube
On 25 September 2023, a training session ‘Web of Science Training. Session B1 - Managing my bibliography with EndNote Online (Elementary Level)’. You can see the presentation and the video of the session in the following link:
Presentation and session recording
Below you can access a tutorial about this manager:
InCites, recording of the training session ,Incites onboarding, on 4 December 2024:
- https://videos.clarivate.com/watch/vctmqcodDBH47VwWNigWrz
InCites Onboarding Presentation-2014-12
On Clarivate's Spanish training portal, you can find many training sessions on this resource, e.g.:
LEARN HOW TO USE INCITES (Free course with certificates)
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics (InCites) is a bibliometric tool that uses Web of Science data to examine research actors (institutions, journals, researchers, etc.).
This course consists of 8 sessions - 1 session per quarter over 2 years (2024-2025)
- Session 1 - My first steps with InCites (Oct 2024)
Learning objectives: Access InCites with my institutional subscription - InCites data: source, updates and uses - Essential features for data analysis - Available resources [WATCH VIDEO]
Session1_My first steps with InCites (Oct2024).pdf
- Session 2 - Analysing the academic impact of researchers with InCites (Feb 2025)
Learning objectives: Interpreting the main standardised indicators (percentile, CNCI, JNCI) - Examining the ‘Researcher Report’ - Analysing the academic impact of researchers - Creating a group of researchers to analyse their impact [WATCH VIDEO]
Session 2 _The academic impact of researchers with InCites (Feb 2025)
- Session 3 - Identify the main players in my research area with InCites (May 2025)
Learning objectives: Choose the most representative classification for my discipline - Create a dataset - Identify the most influential institutions and journals - Advanced features: Create groups, export data, etc. [WATCH VIDEO]
Session 3_Identify the main players in my field with InCites (May 2025).pdf
Specific tutorials by subject area
Architecture:
- DETAIL-Tutorial (January-2025, personal development Architecture Library)
- DOCOMOMO-Tutorial (January-2025, personal preparation Architecture Library)
- URBADOC-Tutorial (January-2025, personal preparation Architecture Library)
- ICONDA-Tutorial...supplier tutorial (OVID) and link to training session recording Oct. 2024 (32m)
- EBSCOHost-Tutorial (January-2025, personal elaboration Architecture Library)
- InDICEs-CSIC-Tutorial (Jan.-2025, personal elaboration Architecture Library)
- Databases - Architecture and how to access them (January-2025, elaborated by staff Architecture Library)
- Electronic books on architecture (January-2025, elaborated by staff Biblioteca Arquitectura)
- Electronic Architectural Journals (January-2025, staff elaboration Architecture Library)
- Shinkenchiku Data-Tutorial (January-2025, staff elaboration Architecture Library)
Humanities:
- ProQuest training session on resources for the humanities, held in May 2025 for the UVa community:
Legal Sciences:
- Legalteca (video presentation)
- La Ley Digital (publisher's guide)
- Aranzadi Instituciones (publisher's guide)
- CloudBook Sepin (publisher's guide)
- Biblioteca_Virtual Tirant (publisher's guide)
- EUR-Lex (Website)
- Criminal Justice Database (Proquest's Libguide in English)
- Legal Bibliographic and Documentary Resources (Personal compilation Law Library)
Social Sciences:
- ABI-INFORM (Proquest): ABI Inform ProQuest Libguide (Spanish)
- ECONLIT:
- Ovid Resource Centre (Spanish)
- ECONLIT-oct.2024...Tutorial provider (OVID) and link to recording training session Oct. 2023 (34m.)
- Ovid Resource Centre (Spanish)
- DSI’s Campus Solution:
- OECD iLibrary:
- ORBIS:
How to obtain financial information: training session given by Jorge Martín, Relationship Manager - Academic & Public Sector at Bureau Van Dijk, to Moody's Analytics Company (via YouTube channel of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- SABI: User's Guide
- PROQUEST-Economics Resources (Training session-UVa Community May 2025):
Electronic resources. Databases guides:
ACM: http://biblioguias.uva.es/ACM (Staff elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
AIP/Scitation: http://biblioguias.uva.es/AIP/Scitation (Staff elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
IEEE Xplore: http://biblioguias.uva.es/IEEEXplore (Staff elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
INSPEC (PQ):
- http://biblioguias.uva.es/INSPEC (Staff elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
- Información IET: INSPEC
- ProQuest LibGuides: INSPEC
- Inspec on Proquest Dialog: A User Guide
- Dialog quick reference guide
- INSPEC online help on the ProQuest platform
MatSciNet:
- http://biblioguias.uva.es/MathSciNet (Staff elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
- MathSciNet Tutorials Menu
- MathSciNet QuickStart Guide
SciFinder-n:
- http://biblioguias.uva.es/SciFinder (Staff elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
- Guía SciFinder-n (Spanish SciFinder-n Guide)
- More guides and tutorials:
- Recording of training given on 10-12-2024 for the UVa community: CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform
FSTA-oct.2024... Tutorial provider (OVID) and link to training session recording Oct. 2024 (36m.)
ICONDA-Oct.-2024...Tutorial provider (OVID) and lint to training session recording oct. 2024 (32m.)
- Biblioguia (Personal elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
- Recording of a training session for the UVa community, 20-Feb.2025... View it
ProQuest
- ProQuest training session on engineering resources, held in May 2025 for the UVa community:
Health Science Tutorials:
- ClinicalKey Student Nursing (Personal elaboration Health Sciences Library)
- Cochrane
- Searching in Enferteca (Personal elaboration Health Sciences Library)
- EUREKA e-Books Search Guide Editorial Panamericana (Personal elaboration Health Sciences Library)
- UpToDate...Three guides from Wolters Kluwer:
- FSTA-oct.2024... Tutorial provider (OVID) and link to training session recording Oct. 2024 (36m.)
- MEDLINE:
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- Presentation of training session for UVa, Oct. 2024
- Search-Ovid... Tutorial supplier (OVID), and
- and link to Oct. 2024 training session recording (48m.)
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- JOVE
- Biblioguia (Personal elaboration Miguel Delibes Campus Library)
- Recording of a training session for the UVa community, 20-Feb.2025... View it
- ComDisDome
- Comdisdome tutorial (Personal elaboration Health Sciences Library)
- ProQuest training session on Health Sciences resources, held in May 2025 for the UVa community: