EXTRAORDINARY OPENING OF THE LIBRARY FOR EXAMS

Opening hours for exams

Del 5 de mayo al 4 de jullio

SCHEDULE 9:00 a.m. to 22:00 p.m.

Open ALL CAMPUS LIBRARIES todos los días a excepción de los días marcados en Red.

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To access the Madrid campus library it will be necessary to reserve a reading position through the app

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Reservations cannot be made with more than 48 hours in advance

(*) Access to URJC users may be restricted according to capacity


NEW LIBRARY BOOK CLUB

Join the Library's new Reading Club!

We are pleased to announce the creation of the Library Reading Club, a space open to all students, professors, researchers, and technical staff in management and administration of our university's services.

We invite you to join this club, where you can immerse yourself in the world of books and share your impressions with other book lovers. Each month, we'll select a book to read and discuss its themes and characters. We'll hold fun and dynamic meetings.

Whether you're an avid reader or just beginning to discover the joy of reading, everyone is welcome! Come and enjoy a welcoming environment where you can express your opinions, listen to those of others, and, above all, enjoy the magic of books in a respectful manner.

How to participate?

Simply fill out a form with your name and URJC email address. We'll send you a confirmation email with brief instructions on how to use the platform. From that moment on, you can participate in the FORUM to share your impressions of the reading and stay informed about our upcoming activities.

If you need more information, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Registration form

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I ONLINE TRAINING CYCLE WOS 2025 (March)

Web of Science Database Online Training

FECYT, together with Clarivate, has organized three new free online training sessions in Spanish during the month of March, framing these sessions with the 1st Online Training Cycle of the Web of Science database.

These sessions are aimed at all institutions that are part of the national Web of Science license and the registration period for online training has opened, which will begin on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, and end on Thursday, March 13, XNUMX.

Important: the bases of the OFFICIAL CALL for training and the instructions to obtain the certificate are published in the FECYT website

Tuesday, March 11th from 14:00-15:00 p.m., My first steps with Web of Science (basic level)

  • Access Web of Science with my institutional subscription
  • Learning to search for a subject
  • Find links to full texts

Wednesday, March 12, 14:00-15:00 p.m., Using Boolean operators and saving my queries in Web of Science (basic level)

  • Working with a personal account to save my work
  • Searching for a topic with boolean operators
  • Use my history to save searches and create alerts
  • Save and organize documents in bookmarked lists

Thursday, March 13, 14:00-15:00 p.m., Identifying the most important publications with Web of Science (basic level)

  • Apply filters to identify the most relevant results
  • Using Citation Topics classification to narrow my search
  • Highly Cited Paper, the most cited documents based on context
  • Export a list of publications

Inscriptions in the following link.

REA DAY (OEWEEK)

Open Education Week

On March 5th, within the Open Education Week, the REA Conference, a conference organized in collaboration by Line 1 and the Repositories Working Group.

The day, which will be broadcast via Zoom and recorded for later dissemination and inclusion in the REA Kit, will have the following program:

Presentation Xaquín Lores (UdC)

  • 11:00-11:40 a.m. "Current state of OER in Spain, by the teachers who use/reuse/create and/or share them. Preliminary results of the CAETIN research project (open science in Spain: the transition to a new research model)». Gema Santos-Hermosa (UB)
  • 12:00-13:00 p.m. Round table 1: Good practices in REA by the PDI of Spanish universities. M. Carmen Martín Marichal (ULPGC). Speakers: Daura Vega Moreno (ULPGC), Lluís Codina (UPF), Victoria Marín (UdL), Begoña Álvarez García (UdC).
  • 13:00-14:00 h. Roundtable 2: Experiences in Spanish university libraries with OER. Brigit Nonó Rius (UdG). Speakers: Paz Llorente Pinto/Yolanda Martín González (USAL), Rosa Maria Sánchez (UC3M) and Fernando Heredia-Sánchez (UMA)
  • 16:00-17:00 h. Practical Workshop on REA Creation: Marina Carbonell (UAB). "Wooclap: collaborative tool to energize classes that allows you to include questions in presentations to be able to interact with students"

You can register for it for free at the following address: LINK

THE LIBRARY COUNTS ON YOU

Help us improve our service

In order to improve the quality of the service we offer you, it is important for the University Library to know what its users think.

For this reason, we ask you to give us your opinion by filling in this small poll which will be open from Tuesday February 4th to Tuesday March 4th.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

SEXENIAL GUIDE CALL 2024

Sexennium Guide for the 2024 call

The updated guide to six-year terms is now available for the Call for evaluation of research activity 2024.

Sexennium Guide

In the guide you can consult the criteria and evaluation scales, as well as information on the narrative bibliography and some recommendations.

For more information, you can also consult the BURJCDigital repository guide and Scientific Portal Guide.

 

SESSIONS HOW TO PUBLISH IN BURJCDIGITAL

Sessions on "How to publish in the BURJCDigital institutional repository"

The library organizes, within the framework of the call for six-year terms 2024 (from January 13 to February 3), three sessions on “How to publish in the BURJCDigital institutional repository”.

These sessions are designed to help you better understand the BURJCDigital publishing process and ensure that your papers are submitted in an appropriate and efficient manner. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to resolve any questions and receive direct guidance from our staff.

 

EXTRAORDINARY OPENING OF THE LIBRARY FOR EXAMS

Opening hours for exams

The 16 21 December to January

SCHEDULE 9:00 a.m. to 22:00 p.m.

Open ALL CAMPUS LIBRARIES Every day except for the days marked in Red.

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To access the Madrid campus library it will be necessary to reserve a reading position through the app

idtrace Apple Store apple idtrace Google Play google idtrace

Reservations cannot be made with more than 48 hours in advance

(*) Access to URJC users may be restricted according to capacity


SCIENCE WEEK 2024

Activities of the University Library in the Science Week 2024

During Science Week 2024, the library is organizing several events in the different campus libraries.

Alcorcón Campus Library:

Fuenlabrada Campus Library:

Móstoles Campus Library:

INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2024

Sexenniums and Open Access: Sharing Experiences

 La Library of the King Juan Carlos University joins the celebration of the International Open Access Week 2024The motto is Community versus Commercialization, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.

El October 23 at 16:00 a.m.. a meeting entitled "Sexenniums and Open Access: Sharing Experiences» with some researchers from our Institution and the University Library, in which we will discuss how the self-archiving process was during the six-year period and we will exchange opinions on the deposit of data and teaching materials in open access.

Link to the session

 

SUMMER SCHEDULE

From July 8 to September 1 from 9:00 a.m. at 14:30 p.m.

The library will be closed from August 5 to 23 (both inclusive)

THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION GRANTS MARÍA DE GUZMÁN AID TO THE BURJCDIGITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

The Ministry of Science and Innovation grants María de Guzmán aid to the BURJCDigital improvement project to enhance scientific impact

The Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the María de Guzmán Call for the Promotion of Excellence in Scientific Research, has granted aid to the project to improve the institutional repository of the URJC, BURJCDigital. This project is aligned with the university's strategic objective of increasing scientific productivity and enhancing the impact achieved by the different areas of knowledge existing in the institution.

The project focuses on updating the BURJCDigital repository to increase its technological capabilities, support open science policies and align with national and European open science strategies. This involves transitioning to DSpace 7 software, improving interoperability with platforms such as the European Commission's ORE, and supporting researchers in open access requirements. The project also includes the integration of various APIs, improving author identification and compliance with international standards.


The aid will finance 85% of the total cost of the project, which will be led by a multidisciplinary team from the Library and IT area, focused on technical support, collection management and communication.

This project is crucial for the continuity of the objectives and achievements since the launch of BURJCDigital and the promotion of open science.

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RESEARCH DATA DAY

Research Data Day: Experiences, challenges and opportunities in the face of the reform of research evaluation

The next October 24 The University Library, through the Madroño Consortium, organizes the “Research data: Experiences, challenges and opportunities in the reform of research evaluation”, aimed mainly at research staff.

The day will focus on:

  • Discover the main challenges and opportunities of research data management in the context of research evaluation reform.
  • To learn about the infrastructure and services provided by the Madroño Consortium to the research staff of its member universities.
  • Share experiences of research staff in managing research data and their expectations and concerns regarding new research evaluation models.

ProgramSee the lens assembly tutorial  SCHEDULE of the journey

Registration: Through the following form before October 10 2024

Place: Polytechnic University of Madrid. Auditorium of the Rectorate, Building A. C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 7. 28040 Madrid