At the Environmental Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CMIMA) we celebrate today that our Centre, formed by the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) and the Marine Technology Unit (UTM) has reached 4000 entries in Digital.CSIC, the institutional repository of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, which objective is to organize, archive, preserve and communicate in open access the intelectual production resulting from the CSIC research activity.
At the Environmental Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CMIMA) we celebrate today that our Centre, formed by the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) and the Marine Technology Unit (UTM) has reached 4000 entries in Digital.CSIC, the institutional repository of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, which objective is to organize, archive, preserve and communicate in open access the intelectual production resulting from the CSIC research activity.
The CMIMA library, open to the public, belongs to the CSIC libraries network. It holds one of the most important collections of the Spanish State concerning scientific literature on oceanography and marine sciences, with a deposit of around 9000 books, and 1800 journals, 500 of which are periodically received. A total of around 9000 electronic journals can also be accessed from this library.
The CMIMA Library staff has been in charge of introducing the necessary data to generate the actual contents of this deposit of digital and digitalized documents which contains the articles, books, conference communications, reports, theses,... of the research and technical personnel of both the ICM and UTM.
Concerning the number of entries, we are the first centre of the CSIC Natural Resources Area, and the third at the overall CSIC level, only surpassed by the CCHS-IH (9574 entries of the History Institute, and the IRNAS (4333 entries of the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology).