Services and Information Resources

Borrowing regulations

• The card is personal and non-transferable.
• Every user can borrow up to six documents at the same time.
• Items can be borrowed for fourteen days.
• At the end of this period, any document on loan can be renewed, as long as the return time has not expired and no other user has reserved it. Renewal can take place at the library in person, by telephone, by email or over the Internet via the catalogue user area.
• Users may reserve documents that are already borrowed. The library will notify users by email when these documents can be picked up. The pick-up period will be seven days.
• Borrowed documents need to be treated with care. So that the service can operate effectively, we would like to remind you to be punctual when returning the documents.
• The computer system will apply a two-day penalty during which no documents can be borrowed for every day the return of the documents out on loan is delayed.
• Documents which are not returned within the established period will be requested by email, by telephone or by ordinary mail.
• The following documents cannot be borrowed:
  -    Some reference works: encyclopaedias, dictionaries, atlases, etc.
  -    All the documents in the Enric Bricall Reserve Collection
  -    The latest edition of every periodical
  -    Documents which are in the new item display case
  -    Final study projects
  -    Documents temporarily excluded at the request of a tutor
  -    Documents which the library decides should not leave the library

It contains over 3,700,000 bibliographic records and it provides access to over 8,000,000 physical documents kept in over 160 libraries.

If you are interested in a document from another university, an interlibrary loan can be requested, and the document will be sent to the library so you can consult it there (you cannot take it out on loan): biblioteca@elisava.net

Mendeley allows you to create a proprietary database where you can keep, organize and shape the references obtained from one or multiple databases, bibliographies drawn in different citation styles and incorporate them into text documents, databases, sharing references data, or publishing bibliographies on the Internet. You can open a free basic account at this address http://www.mendeley.com/

• Curve
• Design Issues
• Journal of Design History
• Make
• Women’s Wear Daily

La consulta d’aquestes revistes es pot fer des de qualsevol ordinador de la biblioteca.

Per a més informació, adreceu-vos al taulell.

 

MaterFAD 

It is the FAD database of materials. It allows to search for materials under different criteria and access to their technical characteristics. Access is free but you must register as a user.

RECOLECTA

It is a platform that brings together all Spanish scientists repositories. It is open access and full text.

OAIster

It is a platform that includes digital resources from open access worldwide. It includes books, digitized articles and manuscripts, audio, video, photographs, statistics, dissertations and research papers.

Europeana

Europeana portal is a search engine of the digitized collections of museums, libraries and archives in Europe.

ccindex

It is an open-access database of references to journals about architecture, art, social sciences, cinema, design, cultural studies, philosophy,photography, literature and music. Access is free but you must register as a user.

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• CCUC (Collective Catalogue of the Universities of Catalonia)
• COAC (Official Association of Architects of Catalonia)
• Antoni Tàpies Foundation
• Disseny Hub
• ALADÍ (Public libraries in the province of Barcelona)
• REBIUN (Spanish Universities)
• BEG (Specialised libraries of the Government of Catalonia)

The information used to describe the document is taken from it. The data obtained from the document is written in the document’s language.

When a document does not have an author, the first element in the description is the title.

In documents which have up to three authors, the names of the three must be stated separated by a semicolon. However, when there are more than three, it is usual to state the name of the first author followed by the abbreviation “et al.”. Under no circumstances expressions such as “Various Authors”, “Anonymous”, etc. can be used.

The bibliography is ordered alphabetically by the first reference element, whether this is the author or the title.

Below are several examples of citations using the document format.

 

Books

Layout
Author. Title in italics. Edition number if it is not the first. Place: Publishing house, year of publication. ISBN (optional).

Examples
• Gombrich, E. H. La imagen y el ojo. Madrid: Debate, 2000.

• Jiménez Montoya, Pedro; García Meseguer, Álvaro; Morán Cabré, Francisco. Hormigón armado. Ed. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2000.

• Diccionari manual de la llengua catalana. 2nd Ed. Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1998.

• Corbella, Josep; et al. Sapiens: el llarg camí dels homínids cap a la intel·ligència. Barcelona. Edicions 62, 2000.

The abbreviation (ed.) is added when the book is a compilation of contributions from various authors with a literary editor responsible for them. Example:

• Doran, Michael (ed.). Sobre Cézanne: conversaciones y testimonios. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1980.

For electronic books:

Layout
Author. Title in italics [Type of document]. Edition number if it is not the first. Place: Publishing house, year of publication. Retrieved: date consulted, from <URL>

Examples
• Crow, R. Income Models for Open Access: an Overview of Current Practice [online]. Washington: Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, 2009. Retrieved: September, 20, 2009, from http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher/incomemodels/

• Calderón de la Barca, P. Life is a Dream [online]. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Proyecto Gutenberg, 2006. Retrieved: August, 20, 2009, from: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2587/2587.txt

 

Chapters in Books

Layout
Author of the chapter. "Title of the chapter". In: Author of the book. Book title in italics. Edition number if it is not the first. Place: Publishing house, year of publication, p. initial page – final page.

Examples
• Kaiser-Schuster, Britta. "La enseñanza del color en la Bauhaus". In: Jeannine Fiedler (ed.). Bauhaus. Köln: Könemann, 2000, p. 392-399.

• Nash, Mark. "El arte del movimiento". In: Campos de fuerza: un ensayo sobre lo cinético. Barcelona: MACBA, 2000, p. 313-316.

In the case of chapters in electronic books:

Layout
Author of the part. “Title of the part or chapter”. In: Author of the book. Title of the main document in italics [online]. Edition if its not the first. Place: Publishing house, year, p. initial page – final page. Retrieved: date consulted, from: <URL>

Examples
• Bendixen, G.E. “Radio navigation”. In: Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering [online]. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley Interscience, 1999, p. 331-340. Retrieved: October, 11, 2007, from: http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780471346081/eeee/article/W1134/current/abstract?hd=article-title,navigation

 

​Periodical Articles

Layout
Author. "Article title". Periodical title in italics, volume, number (year), p. initial page – final page.

Examples
• Gerngross, Tillman U.; Slater, Steven C. "Plásticos de origen vegetal". Investigación y ciencia, no. 289 (2000), p. 4-9.

• Goggin, Philip A. "An appraisal of ecolabelling from a design perspective". Design Studies, vol. 15, no. 4 (1994), p. 459-477.

For articles from electronic periodicals

Layout
Author. “Article title”. Periodical title [online], year, volume (number), p. initial page - final page. ISSN number. Retrieved: date consulted, from: <URL>

Examples
• Szymansky, S. “Magnetic Equivalence between Nuclei of Spin Greater than ½ in Presence of Relaxation”. Journal of Magnetic Resonance[online], 1997, 127(2), p. 199-205. ISSN 1090-7807. Retrieved: August, 20, 2009, from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmre.1997.1203

• Benedicto Gracia, E. “Documentos acerca del funcionamiento del sistema de insaculación en la aljama judía de Huesca (siglo XV)”. Sefarad[online], 2006, 66(2), p. 309-344.  ISSN 1988-320X. Retrieved: August, 20, 2009, from: http://sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/sefarad/article/view/413

 

Papers at conferences

Layout
Author. “Title”. Editor. Conference title in italics. Place: Publishing house, year of publication, p. initial page – final page.

Examples
• Aguilera Ureña, M. J. [et al]. “Utilización del GPS para determinaciones altimétricas en ingeniería civil”. Actas del XI Congreso internacional de ingeniería gráfica: Logroño – Pamplona, 2, 3 y 4 junio. Navarra: Secretaría del Congreso, 1999, p. 47-58.

• Paterson, A.T. 2003. “The Fourier-Stieltjees and Fourier algebras for locally compact groupoids”. Kaminska, A. (ed.) Trends in Banach Spaces and Operator Theory: a Conference on Trends in Banach Spaces and Operator Theory, October 5-9 2001, University of Memphis. Providence (Rhode Island): American Mathematical Society, 2003, p. 223-237.

 

 

Websites

Layout
Author. Title in italics [online]. Place: Editor, publication date. Retrieved: date consulted,from: <URL>

Examples
• Monuments of the future: designs of El Lissitzky [online]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2000. Retrieved: September, 14, 2010, from: http://www.getty.edu/gri/digital/lissitzky/

Website pages:
Author. Title in italics [online]. Place: Editor, publication date. Name or title of the part, numbering and/or location in the main document. Retrieved: date consulted,from: <URL>

• Unos tipos duros [online]. Tratado clásico de tipografía: 28 Medidas de la página. Retrieved: September, 15, 2011, from: http://www.unostiposduros.com/?p=947

 

Blogs

Layout
Author. Title in italics [blog]. Place: Editor, date of publication, year. Retrieved: date consulted,from: <URL>

Example
• Suárez Carballo, Fernando. Visual things [blog]. Retrieved: September, 14, 2010, from: http://www.cosasvisuales.com

Blog post:
Author. “Title of the post”. Title of the blog in italics [blog]. Place: Editor, date of publication, year. Retrieved: date consulted,from: <URL>

Example
• ADG-FAD. “Todo es diseño”. ADG-FAD Blog [blog]. Retrieved: September, 14, 2010, from: http://www.fad.cat/adg/blog/2010/07/08/todo-es-diseno/

Comments on a blog post:
Author of the comment (as it appears). Comment on: “Post title”. Comment date. Blog title in italics [online]. Place: Editor, date of publication, year. Retrieved: date consulted,from: <URL>

Example
• Teresa. Comment on: "Flo's pledge: deal or no deal?" 12th May 2007. Kim. Emergiblog: The Life & Times of an ER Nurse [blog]. San Francisco: Emergiblog, c2005-2007. Retrieved: May, 16, 2007, from: http://www.emergiblog.com/2007/05/flos-pledge-deal-or-no-deal.html

Social Networks: Facebook - Twitter

To cite a Twitter or Facebook feed as a whole or to discuss it in general, all you need to do is state the URL of the website in the text in brackets. There is no need for an entry in the reference list.

Example:
President Obama uses Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/barackobama) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/barackobama) to keep citizens informed about his initiatives, especially health reform and candidates for the Supreme Court.

To cite Twitter or Facebook updates:

Author (as written). (Date –without the time-) Content of the post or update [document type]. Retrieved from: <URL>

Examples:
 • Barack Obama. (2009a, July 15). Launched American Graduation Initiative to help additional 5 mill. Americans graduate college by 2020: http://bit.ly/gcTX7 [Twitter post]. Retrieved from: http://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/2651151366

 • Barack Obama. (2009b, October 9). Humbled.
 http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/obamaforamerica/gGM45m
 [Facebook update]. Retrieved from:
 http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=6815841748&share_id=154954250775&comments=1#s154954250775

To differentiate between posts made by the same person in the same year (or even on the same day), “a” or “b” can be included after the year in chronological order. If there is only one message in the same year, then it is not necessary to include "a" or "b".

 

Wikis

Layout
Title in italics [Type of document]. Place: edition, date of publication. Retrieved: date consulted,from: <URL>

Example
• Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [Wiki on the Internet]. St. Petersburg (FL): Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 2001. Retrieved:May, 5, 2007, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/

For contributions to Wikis:

• McEvoy D. “The symptoms of IBS”. c2006 WIKISURGERY [Wiki on the Internet]. London: Surgical Associates Ltd. 2006 - . [5 paragraphs]. Retrieved: May, 14, 2007, from:
http://www.wikisurgery.com/index.php?title=The_symptoms_of_IBS

 

Standards

Layout
Standard reference number. Title in italics.

Example
• UNE-EN ISO 717-1. Acoustics. Rating of sound insulation in buildings and of building elements. Part 1: airborne sound insulation.

 

Audiovisuals

Layout
Author. Title in italics [type of medium]. Place: Editor, year of publication. Description of the material: duration of the document (optional).

Examples
• Hustwit, Gary. Objectified -->. London: Swiss Dots Limited, 2009. 1 DVD: 75 min.

• Arquitecturas 1 -->. Barcelona: Editrama, 2007. 1 DVD: 160 min.

• Mozart, W.A. Conciertos para piano 21 y 26 [sound recorded on CD]. Maria-Joâo Pires, piano; Orchestre de la Fondation Gulbenkian de Lisbonne. Madrid: Warner Music, 2003. 1 Compact Disk: 70 min.

 

Graphic Documents (posters, etc.)

Layout
Author. Title in italics [type of medium]. Edition. Place: Editor, year of publication. Length of the document and measurements (optional).

Examples
• Zaragoza, postales para el recuerdo [Graphical document]. Zaragoza: Prensa Diaria Aragonesa, 2000. 150 post cards, 9 x 14 cm.

• Munari, Bruno. I prelibri [Graphical document]. Mantova: Corraini, 2003. 1 folder (12 books).

 

Further information

• Spanish Association of Standardisation and Certification. Spanish Standard UNE 50-104-94: Bibliographic References: Contenido, Forma y Estructura. Madrid: Spanish Association of Standardisation and Certification, 1994.
• Lee, Chelsea. “How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part I: General”. APA Style Blog [blog]. Washington: American Psichological Association, 2009. Retrieved: February, 10, 2011, from: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/10/how-to-cite-twitter-and-facebook-part-i.html
• Lee, Chelsea. “How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations”. APA Style Blog [blog]. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2009. Retrieved: February, 10, 2011, from:http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/10/how-to-cite-twitter-and-facebook-part-ii.html
• International Organization for Standardization. International Standard ISO 690-2: information and documentation, bibliographic references. Genève: ISO, 1997.
• Patrias, K. Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers [online]. 2nd ed. Wendling, DL, technical editor. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 Retrieved: February, 11, 2011, from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine
• University of Barcelona. UB CRAI [online]. Barcelona. Centre de Recursos per a l’Aprenentatge i la Investigació, 2006. Com citar material no llibre. Retrieved: February, 14, 2011, from: http://www.bib.ub.edu/ajuda/com-citar/material-no-llibre/
• University of Cantabria. Library of the University of Cantabria [online]. Santander: University of Cantabria. Library, 2010. Cómo citar. Retrieved: February, 14, 2011, from: http://www.buc.unican.es/Servicios/formacion/CITAR/PAG1.htm