The Recommended Bibliography service allows you to find out which texts recommended by teachers for the preparation of their academic exams are available in the University libraries for consultation and loan. Information can be retrieved only from monographs from the last three academic years, including the current one.

To use the service, you must follow the steps below:

Where to look: Simply query the UniPa Discovery Service by entering some information, such as author and/or title, to find out the availability of the work and access traditional or digital consultation and lending services.

How to search: You can search for recommended texts (printed books or eBooks) by entering one of the following items in the search box: teaching code or name, teacher's surname, academic year. The simple search through elements such as the title and the author is always valid, the card will contain the information related to the associated teaching.

Traditional and digital loan terms: Loan terms vary depending on user status (in the case of printed books) and the disbursement methods established by each publisher (in the case of ebooks). All details are available at this link.

How to remotely read eBooks and subscription digital assets: Please note that, in the case of subscription digital collections, remote access requires authentication using the methods indicated at the following link.

To find out the complete bibliography of each teaching: > UniPa Teaching Transparency Sheets (Schede di trasparenza degli insegnamenti UniPa)

The University libraries give the possibility to access to a great number of reading rooms, where you can study in specifically organised environments, with Wi-Fi connection.

With the ENUSWeb reservation system, you may check in real time the availability of seats in the reading rooms.

Access to the Library is open and free of charge for all those who, for study and research reasons, wish to use the reading rooms, consult the bibliographic collections and ask for available services. In the Library there are PC workstations, seats (whose availability may be checked in real time through the ENUSWEB system) and Wi-Fi.

Everyone can register in two ways:

1. Unipa Users: Make the first access to Unipa Discovery Service through institutional credentials, in order to take advantage of the online services of booking books and renewing loans, save and organize the results of your bibliographic searches. The procedure must be completed upon first entry into the library

2. NON-Unipa users: go to a University library to register at the front office. 

Access to subscription-based electronic collections (eBooks, journals, databases) and document delivery services is available to the academic community, including remotely, by authenticating with their UniPa credentials.

Libraries provide the loan service of books, e-books, tablets and e-readers. For information about the use, please consult this page.

The Reference service: information and advice through front office and chat provides basic guidance to students for the use of the catalogue, discovery service, bibliographic platforms, data bases. You can also receive useful information for your degree dissertation.

The Reference service: information and advice through front office and chat provides basic guidance to students for the use of the catalogue, discovery service, bibliographic platforms, data bases.

If you want your research text to be original and creative and want to check for plagiarized parts in your work, learn how to use the University's plagiarism software by asking your reference librarian.

The University libraries provide guidance, information and user training activities, aiming at improving the awareness of the use of the services and resources offered. The training ranges from basic level (information on Library services and resources) to the intermediate level (general resources and tools for bibliographic research) up to an advanced level (specific resources and tools for bibliographic research).