Facilities
Bibliographic resources
Good
bibliographical resources are necessary in any field of research, but in
Palaeontology these resources must cover not only the last few years, as
in many other sciences, but also the deep past, as the first description of
many species goes back to the 19th and even to the 18th
century.
In
our laboratory the current literature is covered by the most important
international reviews of Palaeontology and Mammalogy (about 50) available
in paper and/or on line.
The
books and special volumes on General and Vertebrate Palaeontology are
about 400, most of them printed in the last twenty years.
The reprints cover both old and current literature and amount to about 25.800 (about half of them dealing with micromammals) with an increase of more than a thousand units per year. This is one of the biggest collections of this kind.
