EIUC LIBRARY 
The Monastery of S. Nicolò houses a specialized multi-disciplinary library on human rights and democratisation issues.
In 2010 the EIUC Library has reached the number of 10600 monographs and more, 53 current journals related to human rights and international law, reviews and non-conventional publications.
The book purchase policy is meant to ensure the EIUC Library to have the fundamental Human Rights publications.
EIUC Library includes the following publications of international organisations: United Nations and the Council of Europe Publications, the Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, Recueil des cours- Académie de Droit International, etc.
Also available in the Library are Italian and international newspapers, bilingual and thematic dictionaries, manuals, movies and documentaries.

EIUC library doesn’t carry out external/interlibrarian loan services due to internal policies, but it’s still possible to ask the librarian for document delivery.

Opening hours are: Monday to Friday - 9.00 to 18.00
(From February to August it is recommended to take an appointment with the Librarian: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

 

The on-line catalogue enables researchers to look through all the documents and materials housed in the library (books, international scientific reviews, DVDs).

It is also possible to make research within ejournals (http://ejournals.ebsco.com/home.asp ) by EBSCO EJS, with full text available for all the journals subscribed by the library.
HeinOnline (http://heinonline.org/ ) databases are under subscription during the academic year 2010/2011.
Please ask the librarian to access them.

Other open access databases sure to be useful are:

In addition, Hurisearch (http://www.hurisearch.org/ ) is a search engine specialised in human rights. It’s devoted entirely to human rights and related topics, and since it gives more visibility to the documentation of small institutions and NGOs, Hurisearch results as an extremely useful tool for researching documents on human rights.

The most consulted materials are the E.MA theses. Here (In this excel file) it is possible to find them all, catalogued by years.
E.MA theses for the academic years from 1997/1998 until 2003/2004 are available for consultation in the EIUC Library. From the academic year 2004/2005, each E.MA student has been allowed to decide the modalities of use and consultation of her/his own thesis.

Regulations concerning the use of the EIUC Library:
•    opening hours of the EIUC library are:  from Monday to Friday: from 9.00 to 18.00;
•    only students of the projects organised by EIUC, tutors, professors and members of the EIUC staff are allowed to loan books from the EIUC library;
•    only monographs can be loaned from the library. Journals, reviews and some manuals can only be consulted during library opening hours;
•    loans can last 7 days, eventually less;
•    only 3 books can be loaned at a time;
•    books already loaned can be reserved;
•    books on loan cannot be lent to other students. They must return to the library without damages and marks;
•    when borrowing a book, it must be done through the Librarian/other supervisor service, who will be operative during opening hours;
•    alarm systems to protect all the documents of the library were installed in 2005. Students are formally requested to put their bags and backpacks in the lockers outside of the library;
•    a service photocopy machine is available for all students on the ground floor next to staff offices;
•    drinks and food are not allowed in the EIUC Library and Reading room (as well as in the Aula Magna).


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