Library services for your dissertation
To obtain your degree, you are required to write a final dissertation. It's a very important job, that allows you to have a taste of disciplinary research.
We can help you to do bibliographic or factual research, to select your sources, to retrieve the important materials and to cite them correctly.
That's what we can do for you.
Our course aims to provide you with useful advices for your degree thesis.
Following the course you will gain the basic skills for conducting a good bibliographic research, avoiding plagiarism and formatting your references correctly.
Library services are also illustrated.
At the end of each section, you'll find a quiz to self-verify your preparation.
You can follow the course at your own pace, nothing is mandatory.
If you have completed the course, you must answer the anonymous questionnaire before downloading your attendance certificate.
Be careful! This course does not replace the guidance you may receive from your academic advisor.
Together with following this course, you must read the Comprehensive writing guide for a master thesis.pdf, provided by the university.
You can find the course at this link: How to create a bibliography for your degree thesis (Moodle).
You can start your research from the library catalogue BIG search to find your first relevant materials. Then you can deepen your search using the online disciplinary databases, where you can find data and bibliography from authoritative sources.
Got lost? Don't worry, you can use our reference service, you'll find a librarian who can help you to navigate the ocean of our resources.
If you can't find the book or article you need in one of our libraries, we can get it for you asking another library.
Our Interlibrary service is free of charge and retrieves books and articles from italian and foreign libraries quickly.
Our reference service helps you to better use our bibliographic and factual databases, with the aim of making you master of research techniques.
Book an appointment logging in with your university credentials.
We organize periodical know-how sessions to teach users how to better use our resources. They are in italian for now, but we are working on english sessions too.