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The direction and management of the CSIC's Library and Archive Network is the responsibility of the Unit of Scientific Information Resources for Research, which reports to the Vice-presidency of Organization and Institutional Relations, with offices in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.
The main functions of this Unit are:
- Collaborate with CSIC authorities in everything related to the Institution's scientific information policies
- Provide access to scientific information resources through the Virtual Library
- Define and promote Open Access policies and Open Science promotion services
- Preserve and give access to the scientific production of CSIC through the institutional repository DIGITAL.CSIC
- Monitor compliance with the CSIC Open Access Mandate
- The management of the Open Access Support Program for CSIC Authors
- Management of support for Open Science infrastructures and services
- The automation of access to CSIC's historical archives
- The digitization of documentary heritage and the management of the SIMURG digitized collections portal
- The provision of services for the analysis of CSIC's scientific publication
- Manage the Library Services Platform and the union catalogs of bibliographic and archival collections of the CSIC
- Regulate the provision of library services
- The management of quality policies in scientific information services
- The management of the 100% Digital Plan for CSIC centers without a face-to-face library
- Coordinate the development of bibliographic collections, the negotiation, contracting and acquisition processes
- The management of the applications and management systems of CSIC's Library and Archives Network
- The preparation of reports, statistics, analysis and reports on its activity and/or of the libraries and archives
- Professional training of library staff
- Maintain the external and internal communication channels of the Network
- The management of SURAD, the centralized document delivery service
- The management of CSIC's cooperative conservation deposit of bibliographic and hemerographic collections: GRANADO
- Represent CSIC in national and international library cooperation forums