Spanish Council for Scientific Research Marine Sciences Library (Cádiz, Spain)

• Main Author: Wulff , Enrique
• Other Authors: Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-MAP)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2008
• Subjects: Marine libraries; Mediterranean sea; Professionnal networks; Mediterráneo; Redes profesionales; Bibliotecas marinas; Méditerrannée; Réseaux professionnels; Bibliothèques marines; info; scipo; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02567821

International audience The CSIC library at the Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía has technological resources and research support. The Library was created in 1957. The first books incorporated to the holdings were basically French. They are in connection with the Institute’s expeditions along the African littoral in the late fifties. The collection is built around the early sixties role of the Institute as the Spanish representative at World Scientific Meeting on the Biology of Tunas, and Related Species (FAO, ICES), the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) , and the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF).There are some 250 holders of the card of the library • To satisfy their information needs a thesaurus has been compiled: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/DCIN/article/view/DCIN0404110289A/19313 • An article on the library was published by the British journal ‘Managing information’ in 2002 March https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01242701 • The Library has been involved in the 2008 Louvain-la-Neuve Conference on the Public Domain Information Policies, COMMUNIA, https://communia-project.eu/node/142.html • After an online course provided by the Library to America, Spain and Germany (2008, 1st semester) an article has appeared on ‘open access in marine science’ in a Brazilian journal. http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/3158 Services offered by the library • Some 450 registered Users • Reading Room service with free access to the holdings for CSIC staff • A reference service and bibliographic information. Oriented towards the use of the CSIC virtual library • Personal loan service • Interlibrary lending and document access service • Remote access to electronic information resources service • Institutional repository (Digital.CSIC.es) Selective advantages • Surveying of the professional literature. • Convergence with international, professional organisations. • Direct involvement in the data world. Strategy • General goal : To ...