Library

The Paraíso Library’s mission is to provide the information resources required by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa community in Porto to fulfil its objectives in the areas of study, teaching, research and community engagement, as well as to promote the development of skills in information searching, retrieval, access, critical evaluation and organisation.

Given the specific nature of its documentary collections and the responsibilities established with external entities, the library houses independent collections with their own documentary holdings. From an organisational perspective, however, access and services are managed in an integrated manner by the Library.

Our Academic Fields

Arts and Literature, Nursing, Bioethics, Philosophy, Biotechnology, Management, Law, History, Economics, Psychology, Education and Theology.

UCP Libraries offer

• Consultation and borrowing of documents;
• Access to a comprehensive collection of specialised and multidisciplinary databases;
• Training for the academic community on databases, research methodologies, access to and production of information, the use of AI tools in research, data management, Open Science, among other topics;
• Specialised support for research, research management, scientific production and publishing, Open Science, and research data management;
• Support in the use of institutional platforms, such as Ciência-UCP and the Veritati repository, researcher profile management, scientific publishing and the assessment of research impact.

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