CID-CSIC Library

Research and Development Center Pascual Vila

During the period of confinement the CID Library will provide the following services remotely (non-face-to-face):

• Interlibrary loan and access to the external document

• Information and bibliographic inquiries

• Personal loan (check conditions)

• Complete Digital.CSIC service (including delegated archiving service)

• Management of user cards, PAPI, resolution of incidents related to access to databases, electronic journals, etc.

• Web attention

• User training

The Network of CSIC Libraries and Archives is launching the new Lean Library service, a browser extension that integrates access to electronic resources contracted by the CSIC into the workflow of researchers by providing them with access to the information they need when working outside the CSIC network.

Even if the researcher is browsing or searching outside the Library Network channels, Lean Library provides access to full texts.

The Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI), representing the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)), has signed in November 2019 a new contract with Cambridge University Press, called "Read & Publish", which gives access to the reading of all CUP journals and, in addition, allows authors to publish in OA in ALL the jour

Since November, the mobile version of the CSIC Virtual Library incorporates a new functionality for voice searches. To do so, click on the microphone icon that appears on the search form and clearly say the keywords by which you want to search. The Virtual Library will perform the search and present the results. Voice recognition is ready to work in Spanish and English.