The Joint Documentation Service (SCD)
The University of Montpellier has entrusted its Joint Documentation Service (SCD) with the development and management of resources and documentation services to support you throughout your studies and facilitate your success.
The university has 12 university libraries (BU) and associated libraries (departmental and research center libraries), which serve 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, use the main access point: the ENT > "Libraries – Access to resources and document services."
All members of the Montpellier University community have free access to the university libraries of Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University and vice versa, under partnership agreements between the two universities.
Statutes and missions of University Libraries (BU)
The SCD contributes to the university's training and research activities. It performs the following tasks:
- implement the university's documentation policy;
- welcoming users and staff working at the university and organizing workspaces and consultation areas;
- adapt tochanges in technology, practices, and user demands;
- acquire, report, manage, and communicate documents and information resources in any format;
- develop digital documentary resources, contribute to their production, and promote their use;
- participate in the development of scientific and technical information;
- participate, on behalf of users, in research on these various resources as well as in the university'scultural, scientific, and technical activities;
- promote, through documentation and the adaptation of services, any initiative in the field of initial and continuing training and research;
- 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.