Antonio Martín talks with Pura Fernández, its director, about the various challenges facing academic publishing.

We are in the office of Pura Fernández, the director of the publications’ service of the Publishing House of the Higher Council for Scientific Research in the center of Madrid. A fresh, clean morning ... We are celebrating because they have turned 80 years old.

Pura Fernández: The publishing house begins with the founding of the CSIC, which is an extension of the board for the expansion of studies, in the year 1939 the Higher Council for Scientific Research was founded as such and in that same year the idea of ??creating what we then called a publication service as an appendix or structure that could derive all the investigations related to the CSIC, was officially founded in 1940, as a CSIC publication service and began to take shape with an editorial practice that throughout these 80 years have certainly been enormous, multiform and highly diversified.

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The Spanish National Research Council. Public agency CSIC.es

The Spanish National Research Council is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Wikipedia

Founder: José Ibáñez Martín

Founded: November 24, 1939

Headquarters: Serrano 117. 28006 Madrid

Preceding agency: Junta de Ampliación de Estudios (JAE)

Agency executive: Rosa María Menéndez López, President

Subsidiaries: Biological Research Center,

Parent organization: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities