National Library of Health Sciences (BNCS)

The National Library of Health Sciences (BNCS) provides bibliographic support to all ISCIII activities and documentary services to the SNS. It develops various projects to make the health sciences literature produced in Spain visible through the database IBECS (http://ibecs.isciii.es), the portal SciELO España (http://scielo.isciii.es), the collective catalog of health sciences journals in Spanish libraries CNCS (http://cncs.isciii.es/), and the adaptation of the DeCS thesaurus to the terminology used in Spain. It disseminates the scientific and institutional production of the ISCIII and its foundations (CNIC and CNIO) both nationally and internationally through the institutional repository REPISALUD (https://repisalud.isciii.es/).

HIGHLIGHTED ACTIVITIES

● The BNCS creates the COVID-19 guides (one for professionals and another one for citizens) with web resources from official sources and contrasted quality.

This is an adaptation of the “2019-nCoV Acute Respiratory Disease: Health Information Guide” of the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) of the NLM (National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States). They were first published in February 2020 and are updated daily. They received more than 201,000 visits and 150,000 visitors in 2020, and the home page was the third most consulted page of the ISCIII portal in the first weeks of the pandemic.

https://www.isciii.es/QueHacemos/Servicios/Biblioteca/Paginas/Guia-COVID.aspx

● 3rd Meeting of Representatives of the Ministries of Health of the Autonomous Communities, convened by the ISCIII in December 2020 to discuss issues related to the CNCS (National Catalog of Health Sciences Publications). Minutes: https://cncs.isciii.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/3a-Reunion_Acta-202001201_

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● Action Plan 2020 of the Virtual Health Library (BVS), carried out as members of the network of Virtual Health Libraries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain and coordinated by BIREME (Specialized Center of PAHO-Pan American Health Organization). The main goals of the activities included: management of the BVS network, updating and expansion of bibliographic control, development/updating of the portal, governance and users. The BVS Spain portal has received about 270,000 visits.

● Eighth meeting of the SciELO/IBECS Advisory Committee held on March 9, 2020; the Committee is composed of experts in open access and scientific publishing. Approval of the inclusion of 13 journals into the SciELO collection and 16 into the IBECS database.

Table. Initiatives for the dissemination of Spanish scientific information

Virtual Health Library - Spain (http://bvsalud.isciii.es)

IBECS

Spanish Health Sciences Bibliographic Index

238 journals and 198,771 articles, an increase of more than 13,508 records 68,885 links to full-text articles included in SciELO España and in open-access journals

SciELO España

Collection of Spanish open-access health science journals

66 publications and more than 42,000 full-text articles in html and pdf formats More than 46 and a half million visits (46,772,450), with an average of more than 4 million/month (4,252,041)

More than 48 million pages downloaded (48,191,269) DeCS

Health Sciences Descriptors

436 new/modified descriptor definitions, 291 new/modified descriptors and 4,464 new alternative terms

National Health Sciences Catalog (CNCS)

CNCS

National Health Sciences Catalog

622,542 collections and 29,498 journals were integrated 142,280 records

178,045 queries to the CNCS API

14,160 thematic revisions and 2,154 modifications and new publications 1,482 users and 27,538 records consulted through the library catalog

More than 13,500 visits to pages of the Catalog and 400 visits to the CNCS website and blog

BNCS Social Networks

Twitter profiles @BNCSisciii @scielospain @bvs_spain @REPISALUDisciii Institutional Repository (REPISALUD)

REPISALUD

Scientific and technical production of ISCIII, CNIC and CNIO

Creation of the COVID-19 Reports collection

No. of items: 5,945 (3,438 research and 1,953 institutional)

Table. Library, publishing and exhibition services

Library services

In-library consultation 562 in-person users and 15 new reader sign-ups

Collections

Bibliographic collections: 42,803 publications, of which 38,144 are monographs and 2,673 are journals. An increase of 1.1%

278 active electronic subscriptions More than 55,000 accesses to electronic books and journals

Database queries 209,133 (not including free databases such as PubMed, etc.)

Interlibrary loans and document requests 4,594 requests with an average response time of less than 1 day. 79% of the applicant libraries are from health centers

Editorial program http://publicaciones.isciii.es

11 titles published in electronic format.

2,724 subscribers to alerts

Museum of Public Health and Hygiene Guided group tours 26 guided tours and 345 visitors

Collaborations PAHO/WHO BIREME

Red Scielo.org FECYT

BVS of the Autonomous Communities

Coordination of the BVS and BIREME/BNCS/BSC Coordination of the portal SciELO España INEOS project

Development of the CNCS

BIREME: Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences (PAHO Specialized Center; PAHO: Pan American Health Organization);

INEOS Project: pilot project ‘Infrastructures and Standards for Open Science’; FECYT: Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

Museum of Public Health and Hygiene

This state-owned museum, located within the ISCIII premises, owns a noteworthy collection on public health in Spain, including a bacteriological laboratory from the first third of the 20th century. It also owns a documentary archive from the former Directorate General of Health, a library and the historical archive of clinical records from the former hospitals for infectious diseases. The BNCS coordinates the visits and activities of the Museum of Public Health and Hygiene. The Museum offers a program for guided group tours open to the general public, although due to the pandemic we experienced during 2020, these activities were limited to the first months of 2020. During the year, the visits indicated in the table above on Library Services were organized.

Internationalization

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