Welcome to the University of Algarve Library. Discover the resources it has to offer.

Access books (library catalogue), journals (PressReader), article databases and e-books (B-on, EBSCO Health, Emerald, JoVE, JSTOR, MathSCinet, PsycInfo, Qualfood, Scopus, etc.) in an integrated way via ‘Bibliographic Search’.

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The Library team would like to wish the entire academic community a great holiday.

During the summer break, the Library will be open as follows:

  • 30-06 to 02-08-2025: Monday to Friday from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m., Saturday - closed
  • 04 to 16-08-2025: Closed
  • 18-08 to 06-09-2025: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday - closed

Normal opening hours will resume on 8 September 2025.

 

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Everything you need to know about the Library.

The home loan of books is one of the services provided by the Library to the entire academic community. Here you can also renew your loans.

The Library pays special attention to the training of users, promoting throughout the year general training activities on services and resources, databases, bibliographic managers, deposit of scientific production and plagiarism, among others.

Access information through B-On, databases, the UAlg repository and recommended links, such as: libraries, catalogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias and glossaries, newspapers, thematic links, maps and letters, standards, patents, statistics, legislation, free access and rcaap.

The institutional repository of the University of Algarve brings together the set of scientific publications produced by professors, researchers and students (theses and dissertations) at the University of Algarve and aims to ensure the preservation, visibility and easy access to the University's scientific production.

The European Documentation Centre of the University of Algarve (EDC-UAlg) is a Centre for the dissemination of European Union (EU) documentation and information, created in 1995 through a protocol signed with the European Commission, and is part of the network of Portuguese EDCs.