Library
The Romanian-American University Library, cultural-scientific structure, is part of the educational and research-specific process of the University.
Set up in 1991, the library has a book collection of over 60.000 volumes.
The organizational and functioning system of the library was based from the very beginning on the international standards of library economy and information science, permanently complying with the profound and frequent changes in the Romanian society.
The library collects, organizes and capitalizes book funds, serial publications and other specialized documents, cooperates with central university libraries and with those of high education institutions to insure maximum efficiency to the completion, organization and use of the publications collections, as well as to the bibliographic activity and documentary information.
The completion of the library collections is done through periodical book acquisition according to the bibliographic recommendations in the study plans, to the specific subjects of study and the type of faculty. Furthermore reference materials are acquired to support the studying and research activities (dictionaries, encyclopedia, law codes, atlases, guides, etc.).
The library has developed a program concerning the inter-university exchange of publications and attracting donations of Romanian and foreign book, as well as cooperation with organizations, institutions, libraries, documentary information unities within our country and abroad.
The library has enriched its publications fund with extremely valuable foreign writings received as donations from James Madison University, American University, the academician Constantin Corduneanu, the American-Romanian Academy, DeSales University, UN Library, etc.
These writings, together with those received from the International Management Foundation, as well as the Harvard Business Review, and The Economist magazines, represent an informational and documenting basis of actuality in the economic field.
The E-Library (virtual library) – which comprises a new and well equipped IT lab providing access to the most important international scientific data bases – is part of the Library of the Romanian-American University, being an ambitious and complex project that aims to create a new type of knowledge collections in a variety of electronic formats. The E-Library is also a necessity imposed by the new trends and requirements of the modern society relying on information and knowledge.
The specialized personnel ensure:
- the necessary conditions to allow all the categories of specific users to consult the documents in the reading rooms and at home;
- information of the users by organizing data bases, elaborating and printing the information instruments (bibliographies for each field and subject of study, lists of publications), according to the requests of the training-educational and research process in the University;
- local, national or international printed bibliographic and documentary information papers;
- computerization of our own activities in order to create the informational base of the learning process.
The Romanian-American University promotes Open Access to research, knowledge and information, encouraging its researchers, academic staff and students to embrace a scientific culture towards more openness and to publish in the university’s repository, in order to increase visibility and usage of the research findings.
Public access schedule for the structures of RAU Library:
Monday – Friday » 8:00 – 16:00; 17:00 – 19:30.
The Library of the Romanian-American University provides access to electronic resources in the fields you are interested in!
RAU Library offers you free access to online resources in your field!
DATABASE ACCESS – electronic resources accessible based on paid subscription by RAU
The university offers its students and faculty the opportunity to access a large range of very valuable study materials, by means of accessing several prestigious international databases. These resources are FREELY available for you, being paid on subscription bases by the RAU.
For access from inside the RAU campus (by internet connection through RAU infrastructure) you can go directly the the database website, for mobile access from outside the RAU campus please read the guide below.
All the online resources are available by means of username and password, regardless of your location, internet access being the only prerequisite. For creation and validation of your account it is mandatory to use you institutional email address, @student.rau.ro or @profesor.rau.ro.
In order to connect please follow the steps below:
- Internet access through RAU infrastructure – access the databases website Cambridge Journals (HSS collection)
- Mobile access – check Cambridge Journals (HSS collection mobile access guide [RO]
DATABASE ACCESS – electronic resources accessible based on paid subscription by RAU
The university offers its students and faculty the opportunity to access a large range of very valuable study materials, by means of accessing several prestigious international databases. These resources are FREELY available for you, being paid on subscription bases by the RAU.
For access from inside the RAU campus (by internet connection through RAU infrastructure) you can go directly the the database website, for mobile access from outside the RAU campus please read the guide below.
All the online resources are available by means of username and password, regardless of your location, internet access being the only prerequisite. For creation and validation of your account it is mandatory to use you institutional email address, @student.rau.ro or @profesor.rau.ro.
In order to connect please follow the steps below:
- Internet access through RAU infrastructure – access the databases websites ProQuest or ScienceDirect
- ANELIS PLUS Mobile Access Guide
ACCESS FROM RAU CAMPUS (E-Library or other dedicated spaces) – electronic resources accessible based on paid subscription by RAU
The SINTACT platform offers:
– Act Sintetic – the sole technology capable of always presenting up to date information regarding current legislation
– Transversal Search – offers simultaneously, based on a single search, results from all sections
– Saving search criteria
– Permanent updates of legislation database
– Marking and following legislation
– A very complex database: Romania and EU legislation, Romanian and EU jurisprudence, Public Acquisitions, Journals, Classifications, Document models etc.
– A complete and unified electronic space for legislation and jurisprudence
– A simple, easy to navigate structure
– View of diverse legislation interaction
– Modern legislation calendar, Announcements Wizard, E-mail button
– Document map, down to paragraph level
– Creating, importing and exporting of personal document lists
– Advanced viewing templates
– Advanced document editor
– Possibility of creating and saving personal documents
– User Guide modules
In order to connect please follow the steps below:
Databases with reports, descriptions, situations, last minute information presented by the UN. The content is available in a wide array of languages.
World Digital Library (WDL) presents research materials in a multitude of languages, covering a vast geographical and cultural range.
The main golad of WDL are: promoting international and inter-cultural exchanges, increasing the volume and diversity of world wide available electronic content, making resources available to educators, researchers and home users, building a partnership in order to diminish the disparities of availability for electronic cultural content at both local and international level.
Website covering general information, reports, statistics, indicators and profiles for each country, articles, official public documents, last hour news, links to other specific resources.
www.worldbank.org
Website covering general information, reports, statistics, case studies, indicators and papers regarding the economics situation of each of the organization’s member countries, articles, news.
www.oecd.org
Represent an open access database that permits search inside over 1700 institutional repositories all over the world, build by universities and prestigious research institutes, which published their scientific results in order to increase their visibility and optimize the effort of searching and finding full text resources.
http://roar.eprints.org
The database covers full text articles with free access, from recognized academic journals, peer-reviewed. The available titles cover all academic fields of expertise. Search can be conducted based on journal title or many other different search items inside the articles.
www.doaj.org
The database was built through the effort of hundreds of volunteers from 73 countries in order to better the process of disseminating the information within economics research area. The database covers over 1 million scientific articles, book chapters or full text scientific research papers, uploaded by the aithors themselves.
www.repec.org