Common Documentation Service (SCD)
The University of Montpellier has entrusted its Service Commun de Documentation (SCD) with building and managing the range of documentary resources and services to support you throughout your studies and help you succeed.
The university has 12 university libraries (BU) and associated libraries (component and research center libraries), serving the entire university community and all disciplines taught at the university.
University libraries are organized into a network and offer a wide range of resources and services.
To log in and access online services and resources, there's one main access point: ENT > "Bibliothèques - Accès aux ressources et aux services documentaires" (Libraries - Access to documentary resources and services).
All members of the Université de Montpellier community have free access to the university libraries of Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, and vice versa, under the terms of partnership agreements between the 2 universities.
Statutes and missions of University Libraries (BU)
The SCD contributes to the university's training and research activities. It carries out the following tasks:
- implement the university's documentation policy;
- welcome users and staff working at the university and organize work and consultation areas;
- adapt tochanging technologies, practices and user demands;
- acquiring, reporting, managing and communicating documents and information resources in all media;
- develop digital documentary resources, contribute to their production and promote their use;
- participate in the development of scientific and technical information;
- participate in research on these resources for users, as well as in the university'scultural, scientific and technical activities;
- promote all initiatives in the field of initial and continuing training and research, through documentation and the adaptation of services;
- Cooperate with libraries that share the same objectives, regardless of their status, in particular by participating in union catalogs;
- train users to make the widest possible use of new technologies for accessing scientific and technical information.