Selection Criteria

The general criteria for the selection of bibliographic material, and support of any kind, are descended from the  policy  documentary  guidelines  of  cultural,   scientific,  administrative / managerial   and   logistic type provided by the Institution. In applying these criteria to the current procedures of acquisition,  preservation and waste, we take into account the characteristics of the documents,  the increased demand  or  increased use of different types of documents.
All the elements, and general application, are dynamic, that is adherent to the institutional situation  of  the library in evolution over time. They are therefore subject to regular audits or reviews  by  both  the  general bodies of the Institution that by the body managing the Library, in order to maintain the appearance of  the bibliographic   heritage  always   consistent   with  the  documentary  requirements  of   the   institution   the academic world and research.

During these periodic checks of the heritage, the works are identified which, not being more responsive to the needs of the library, are to be allocated to the waste, mainly by taking into account:

• the state of physical preservation of the editorial product;
• the cost of its future preservation in case the product should be subject to maintenance, restoration, backup or conservative migration, etc .;
• the state of scientific or cultural obsolescence of repertoires. In addition, it also takes into account: the degree of completeness of the collection or work, in the case of specimens that are part of serial publications; its effective and documented use over time; coherence with the collections of the library or the target audience needs.

In addition, it also takes into account:

• the level of completeness of the collection or work, in the case of specimens that are part of serial publications;
• its actual and documented use over time;
• coherence with the collections of the library or the target audience needs.

Application criteria for acquisition or preservation (for works published or disseminated on any kind of support: physical, static and online)

Among the criteria that control the acquisition and preservation procedure or any discard of the works, the significant ones are listed below:

• recognition of the scientific publishing product, whose guarantee of scientific validity is achieved through procedures aimed at determine the suitability of publication, and, simultaneously, coherence disciplinary work with cultural content of the library;
• identification of the foreseeable permanence in time of the validity and usefulness of the work, and, simultaneously, coherence disciplinary of the work with the cultural contents of the library and the availability of physical space for its preservation;
• subsistence of the financial coverage for the acquisition of serial works or periodicals in the years    and simultaneously confirmation of the disciplinary coherence of the  works with the cultural contents of the library and the availability of physical space for their conservation;
• public recognition of the cultural authority of the author or publisher, etc., to guarantee the utility or the importance of their work, even in absence of the scientific requirements of scientific seen above (eg. in the case of works written with aim of disseminating information from academics  scientists);
• identification of documents which, while not strictly relevant to the cultural profile of the library, turn out to be not easy to find in other libraries or documentation centres in the reference area  and which are notable for their significant content  or public utility;
• identification of works, not even closely related to the cultural profile of the library, of which are still tested the public utility and the frequent use by institutional users and not;
• in the Grey Literature and CNR-SOLAR Repository   there are under scientific publications also the bibliographic/editorials typologies, such as working papers, preprints, data sets, databases, technical reports, research reports  doctoral dissertation, which though not always published through traditional or consolidated publishing channels, they always have the scientific requirements  seen above.

Do not normally preserved in the library:

• the works not coherent with the documentary heritage of the Library;
• the works that do not have any of the requirements seen in the previous paragraph;
• with some exceptions, the extracts of articles shown in publications and years of isolated journals;
• with some exceptions, the literary texts, prose and poetry; religious texts, of devotional nature and personal reflection;
• the school supplies;
• the tests useful for public examinations;
• the tour guides;
• with some exceptions, the academic thesis.

These criteria can be applied to all the publishing products , received but not required by the library itself, in accordance with the procedure indicated in Art. 6 of Law 106/2004, including the products received as a gift / tribute and products posted by the publisher, or other person with an indication of "legal deposit" or "printing right" not on demand.