Our discovery tool allows you to explore from a single searchbox: library resources acquired, selected, or produced by the University of Cagliari, those from the University's catalog (OPAC), and millions of digital scientific records indexed in EBSCO's central mega-index.

You can search and access books, articles, bibliographic references, and databases. 

The discovery tool makes it easy to discover and locate resources relevant to your research and provides quicker access to the full text, when available.

You can access data from:

• Most of the databases acquired by the University (with full-text access). More information on the databases is available here.
• Scientific resources produced by the University (with full-text access), which are either published as open access or contained in the digital journals on the UniCAOpenJournals platform.
• Other open-access archives, databases, and journals (with full-text access).
• Resources not acquired by the University, but for which abstracts, indexes, and sources are visible (e.g., Scopus, Web of Science), and which are linked to the Nilde document delivery service.
• The catalog of monographs and journals held by the University's libraries.

Currently, the following databases are not indexed in the UniCASearch integrated catalog. This means that to refine your searches, you need to explore them individually:

• AIDA: comprehensive suite of tools designed to provide detailed information and analysis on companies and public authorities in Italy;
• Année Philologique: A bibliography published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, in collaboration with the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association).
• Biblioteca riviste: Contains 43 journals from the publisher Giuffrè.
• BiGLI: The “General Bibliography of Italian Language and Literature” indexes publications on Italian language and literature.
• De Jure: A legal database.
• Edicola professionale: Contains articles from sources such as IPSOA, CEDAM, UTET Giuridica, and Il Fisco.
• Embase: is a biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database.
• Giustizia civile.com: A civil law journal.
• Il Sole 24 ore: An economic and political newspaper.
• Infoleges: A legal  database, focusing on legal provisions and case law.
• IUS: A collection of databases focusing on topics such as administrative law, business, corporate law, EU and international law.
• La mia biblioteca: Contains books published by CEDAM, UTET Giuridica, IPSOA, il fisco, LEGGI D'ITALIA and Altalex.
• MyDesk24: A database from Il Sole 24 ore.
• Nexis UNI: A database focusing on law and economics.
• Norme CEI: Database that contains the technical standards published by the CEI.
• Norme UNI: Contains the full text of Italian technical standards.
• One Fiscale: Contains resources useful for scholars in the fiscal and corporate sectors.
• One Legale: Contains doctrine, regional and national jurisprudence and legislation, EU legislation, practice, and forms.
• One PA: Integrated access to databases of legislation (Leggi d'Italia, Prassi delle Leggi d’Italia, Codici d'Italia), doctrine (Dottrina d'Italia), and jurisprudence (Repertorio di Giurisprudenza, Cassazione Civile, Cassazione Penale, Corte Costituzionale, Consiglio di Stato e Tar, Giurisprudenza Comunitaria e dell’UE).
• Orbis Europe: a database of comparable financial and business information on Europe's largest 600,000 public and private companies by total assets.
• Orbis intellectual property: combines company and patent information for intellectual property research and strategy such as publication information, ownership, industry and patent classifications, oppositions, and patent value.
• Patrologia latina: Online edition of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina in 221 volumes.
• Scifinder: Database focusing on chemical substance information.
• UpToDate: An evidence-based clinical database.
• Westlaw: A legal database.

If your search results include a bibliographic record for which the full text isn't available, you can still get the document through the university's services. For articles and book chapters, you can use the document delivery service. For books, you can use the interlibrary loan service. These services are reserved for institutional and accredited library users. You can find more information on how to access and use them in the University's library regulations.

To request a document, simply click on "Verifica disponibilità" (Check availability). If the full text is not available, you will see a link that says "Chiedi l'articolo alla biblioteca" (Ask the library for the article) under the "Servizi disponibili" (Available Services) section.

This link will take you to Nilde, where the bibliographic details will be pre-filled, making it easier to submit your request to the library.

If you are requesting a book, you will be directed to the interlibrary loan request form. Before submitting it, please be sure to check if you need the entire book or just a specific section. You can request individual parts through Nilde.

You can ask your library staff or email discovery@unica.it