The University of Bologna, since 2009, provides DigiTocs, a service dedicated to online consultation of indexes, summaries and additional pages of documents catalogued by the OPAC of the Bologna Library System Catalogue of the National Library Service.

DigiTocs is based on a management model distributed among the University libraries that adhere to the service: the web platform is integrated with the OPAC and is centralised for the processing of digitised materials.

The service, which enriches the information of catalogued documents, is aimed at Catalogue users and allows them to:

  • view the digitised version of indexes and summaries, where present, directly from the OPAC files;
  • perform a textual search within the digitised pages, through a special field on the OPAC home page;
  • retrieve information from the digitised pages through the advanced search mask of the new SebinaYOU OPAC.

The University libraries participating in the service take care of the digitisation and uploading of OCR-derived pages and text files (complete with metadata) onto the Digitocs platform.


AlmaDL offers support, in particular, to:

  • provide access to the platform to library operators contributing to the production and uploading of digitised indexes and summaries;
  • provide technical support for troubleshooting problems in uploading materials or operating the platform;
  • deliver training sessions to DigiTocs operators;
  • make corrections and changes to published material.