Biblioteca Complutense

Catalogues

The Rare books On-line Catalogue gathers approximately 90% of the library"s holdings. The rest of them are available on the manual files located in the reading room. These are arranged according to their previous location until the conversion process currently taking place, is finished.

Several links allow users to make a direct search for collections, i.e. engravings, manuscripts or incunabula. Besides, a bibliographic source collection already available, provides important and sometimes little known information about our holdings.

The Reference collection as well as José Simón Diaz Library are accessible from Library"s online catalogue Cisne.


The Dioscorides Digital Library Catalogue gathers more than 3100 full text books, as well as an engravings database, indexed according to the illustrations subjects.

The Complutense University Library has created the Dioscorides Digital Library with the purpose of providing public access to historical bibliographic holdings of key value for the history of science and arts. As well as preserving our bibliographic collection this project will enhance the knowledge and creativity of future generations.

 In order to help the reader, books are available through the library"s On-line catalogue, CISNE, o directly through the Digitalized Book"s catalogue. Bibliographical records of every digitalized book offer a link to the images (Acceso al recurso electrónico: Libro completo).

 Collections organize books, not only regarding their contents but also their formal characteristics; Every day new books are incorporated.

Once the electronic book is shown, a guide to its internal structure will be displayed on the left. The database contains all the elements of the book, such as cover, index, pages or illustrations, so the direct access to specific parts is possible.

One of the special functions of the retrieval of information is the possibility of direct access to illustrations or engravings, organized by period, author or subject on the Dioscorides digital Library Engravings Database.