Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, or CSIC) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service to strengthen the Council's support for Spain's scientific research endeavours. Alma will be integrated with CSIC's implementation of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution.
CSIC was the first Ex Libris Aleph® customer outside of Israel and has been working with the Ex Libris SFX OpenURL link resolver since 2005 and the Primo solution since 2015. As CSIC addresses the changes in demand on its Network of Libraries and Archives (60 facilities that support the 3,000 researchers at CSIC) and the shifting nature of the Network's collections, the Council looks forward to the opportunity to position itself at the forefront of library services technology.
With the move to the cloud-based Alma platform and its SaaS model, CSIC staff will no longer have to implement software updates or manage hardware and network infrastructure upgrades, maintenance, and replacement. In addition, the unified management of resources via streamlined Alma workflows will help the CSIC meet the increasing demand for e-resources. The resulting reduction of the librarians' workload will give them more time to provide enhanced services to end users.
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