Special opening for Christmas 2025 exams

Opening hours during exams in December and January

From December 27 to January 17, the Library will be open on Saturdays, December 20 and January 3, 10 and 17.

SCHEDULE 9:00 a.m. to 21:00 p.m.

Extraordinary Opening Dec 25 Jan 26

 

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

The BURJC Book Club is back!

We're starting a new edition of the book club!

We invite you to join our university reading club, a space open to all participants who wish to immerse themselves in the world of books and share their impressions with other reading enthusiasts.

Whether you're an avid reader or just beginning to discover the joy of reading, everyone is welcome! Come and enjoy a welcoming atmosphere where you can express your opinions, learn from others, and above all, enjoy the magic of books respectfully.

For this term (February 11 to March 20), we suggest reading "Chemistry Lessons" by Bonnie Garmus, a novel set in the 50s and 60s that follows Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist forced by sexism to abandon research and become the unlikely star of a television cooking show. She will revolutionize cooking by teaching science and empowering women, challenging the established order to motivate them to change their lives and defy social norms. Book Club blog You will be able to follow and comment on the topics that arise.

At least once a week, we'll publish posts with suggested reading paces. You can read faster or slower, and you can leave comments on any post you like. Access to the blog is open; the only requirement is to identify yourself with your email address when commenting. We eagerly await your contributions and look forward to engaging in dialogue with you all.

See you among the letters!

  Poster

 

 

2nd Edition of the BURJC Citizen Laboratories

CONNECTIONS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

The 2nd Edition of the BURJC Citizen Labs: Connections with the Environment.

What are Citizen Labs? 

They are open, inclusive and creative spaces where students, teachers, administrative staff and citizens work together to co-create solutions to real challenges.

Why join us as a collaborator?

  • Because your ideas can make a positive impact.
  • Because you'll work as a team with diverse and committed people.
  • Because you will learn by doing, experiencing and sharing.
  • Because the library is much more than books: it is an engine of social innovation.

Projects available on our campuses:

  • Urban garden (Móstoles)
  • Coping strategies for psychological, emotional, and relational problems (Alcorcón)
  • Resilient Skills and Strategies (Alcorcón)
  • Voices that meet: generations in dialogue (Fuenlabrada)
  • PhotoVoice for climate education (Fuenlabrada)
  • Taking care of my mental health as part of my routine (Alcorcón)
  • Co(N)Talent LABoral (Alcorcón)
  • Spaces of mourning (Alcorcón)
  • Youth participation in political and social life: Demos (Fuenlabrada)
  • Communication in the digital environment: Meme project (Fuenlabrada)
  • Stories with energy to take care of the planet (Móstoles)
  • Open Library: A look at Móstoles through books, photographs, and poetry (Móstoles)
  • Hate Speech Observatory on Social Media (ODIO-Lab) (Madrid)
  • SENSOLAB: art, meaning and society (Fuenlabrada)

Check out all the information about the projects here .

Dare to be part of the change from your university!

 

Training with Academic Recognition of Credits (RAC)

The Library is organizing a training activity on "Searching and Managing Scientific Information," which will earn you 1 ECTS credit for the subject "Academic Credit Recognition." You can find more information by clicking here. here.

 

Guided tours of the Library during the URJC Welcome Days

Is this your first year at university?

The Library welcomes you with guided tours of its facilities! During the Welcome Days, you'll be able to learn firsthand how your campus library works:

  • Tour of study rooms, lending facilities, and digital resources.
  • Explanation of key services and how to access them.
  • Tips to make the most of everything BURJC has to offer.

📅 Check the schedule at your campus desk and join the tour! A practical and friendly way to start the course on the right foot 🫰

 

Course: The Library and its Services (URJCx)

Course: The Library and its Services (URJCx)

The Library welcomes you with guided tours of its facilities! During the Welcome Days, you'll be able to learn firsthand how your campus library works:

A 2-hour online training course to learn how the URJC Library works:

  • Organization, spaces and rules.

  • Key services such as loans, reservations and personalized training.

  • Use of catalogs, databases and academic resources.

 🎯 Objective: To help you use the URJC university library independently as a support in your academic life.

📚 Ideal for first-year students.

Take the course by clicking here!

 

 

EXTRAORDINARY OPENING OF THE LIBRARY FOR EXAMS

Opening hours for exams

From May 5th to July 4th

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

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

opening 2 24 25

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 48h in advance

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


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 the Scientific Portal Guide.

 

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.

opening24_25_1.jpeg

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 48h 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:

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.