Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
The CSIC is a multi-sector, multi-disciplinary public research entity attached to the Spanish ministry of Science and Technology and it is established throughout Spain
It is a scientific institution which collaborates with the state, autonomous and loca authorities, with other research institutions and with social and economic organisations both national and foreign, to which it brings its research capacity and its human resources and materials either in the development of research programmes or as scientific and technical advice and support
These, in turn are organized into the CSIC Library Network made up of 100 specialized libraries distributed between 21 cities of 10 autonomous Communities, 17 of these belong to mixed centres with different universities
Summary
The CSIC is a multi-sector, multi-disciplinary public research entity attached to the Spanish ministry of Science and Technology and it is established throughout Spain It is a scientific institution which collaborates with the state, autonomous and loca authorities , with other research institutions (universities, public and private research entities) and with social and economic organisations both national and foreign, to which it brings its research capacity and its human resources and materials either in the development of research programmes or as scientific and technical advice and support. As well as the exponential growth of the costs of the journals there was the extremely high level of duplications as a result of the physical dispersion of the centres With this decentralized model the CSIC did not participate in a strategy of scale economy to be able to face the monopolistic situation of the majority of scientific publishers. In spite of the urgency of the problem this call still did not arouse sufficient interest in the institution, it was not considered to be an institutional priority at the time and the problem only got worse
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