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DiscoveryUPC
Access
How to do a search
Working with the results
My Account
Loan and reservations
Tutorials
DiscoveryUPC set a relevance ranking to retrieve and display the best results that match your search strategy.
You have different options to adjust the results to your preferences:
Each short record on the results page contains:
Select more than one record and by clicking on more options (...) from the top you can:
What can I do with a record?
Under versions, you will find the same title with different years of publication, different language, different type of resource.
In some documents (usually peer reviewed journal articles) you can retrieve, through the arrow icons, the associated citations (cited references and citations received)
The record also shows whether the article has been peer-reviewed and whether the article is available in open access
By default it will show you 10 records per page.
If you haven't found what you're looking for, you can expand the results:
In the'Catalan area you will find documents available in the Collective Catalog of the Universities of Catalonia. You can borrow some of the books through the syndicated loan service (PUC) if you are authorized to do so.
In the'international scope you will find thousands of documents available in libraries around the world. You can order a digital copy of many journal articles and book chapters. If you are an authorized user, identify yourself and press the Request a digital copy button. You will receive it free of charge in your email within 24 hours.