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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.

URICI and OCLC have signed an agreement for the integration of the catalogues of Red de Bibliotecas y Archivos del CSIC in Worldcat, the largest collective catalogue in the world, which contains 480 million bibliographic records and 2,800 million holdings of libraries around the world. For now, CSIC will contribute to Worldcat all the printed collections of its catalogues, both bibliographic and archival.