Rodríguez, Ramón B.

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Materiales de Construcción (E-Journal)

Materiales de ConstruCCión
Vol. 65, Issue 320, October–December 2015, ed006
ISSN-L: 0465-2746
Editorial
Editorial CSIC celebrates 75 years of scholarly publishing
Founded in 1940 as the Spanish National Research 
Council’s (CSIC) ‘Publications Office’, just months 
after the creation of  the Council itself, Editorial 
CSIC is now celebrating its 75th anniversary.
We have come a very long way as a scholarly pub-
lisher of scientific books, monographs and journals, 
attested to by a 13 000-title strong historic catalogue 
and over 2 300 books and 37 scientific journals in 
our live catalogue. From the outset, our publishing 
activity has covered a host of disciplines in science 
and technology, social science, the arts and humani-
ties. Our aim has been and continues to be to serve 
the scientific community and society at large, in the 
broadest possible definition of both, by reporting on 
outstanding research, technological developments, 
innovation and culture, in professionally edited, tech-
nically solvent publications.
Editorial CSIC has been and continues to be a 
benchmark and a vehicle for scientific communica-
tion in Spain. It is fully open to authors from other 
institutions and adheres to the most demanding cri-
teria of scientific and publishing quality. Our notion 
of scholarly quality is based on content, its strict 
academic accreditation via peer review and editorial 
processes controlled and certified by outside agen-
cies. Editorial CSIC also attaches particular impor-
tance to high quality scientific dissemination, which 
is instrumental to knowledge transfer to society as 
a whole. Looking toward the future, we intend not 
only to conserve this quality-oriented, open atti-
tude, but to broaden it through innovation and the 
application of new publishing technologies.
Our pursuit of quality and academic accredita-
tion has been endorsed by the listing of our books 
and scientific journals on the most highly reputed 
international indexing services, such as Thomson 
Reuters’s Book Citation Index and Web of Science 
and Elsevier’s Scopus, as well as on many other 
domestic and international specialised databases.
Further to the institutional commitment stem-
ming from CSIC’s 2006 adherence to The Berlin 
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the 
Sciences and Humanities, Editorial CSIC allows 
open access to its scientific journals and many of 
its other on-line products. It has pioneered the use 
of professional tools for the on-line publication of 
scientific journals in Spain, without neglecting its 
indispensable presence in social networks.
I take this opportunity to highlight the significant 
contribution made by the Eduardo Torroja Insti-
tute for Construction Science (IETcc) to our pub-
lications in the fields of its specialisation, materials 
science and construction and building  technology. 
That contribution adopts the form of two scientific 
journals, Materiales de Construcción and Informes 
de la Construcción, and a monographic series, Mon-
ografías del Instituto Eduardo Torroja, for which 
the scientific editing is conducted primarily by 
IETcc researchers. All three are benchmarks in their 
respective specialities.
We are commemorating an anniversary that 
should inspire us to train our sights on the realities 
and future of increasingly professional, competitive, 
innovative and integrated scientific publishing. The 
ultimate and ambitious aim sought is to establish a 
standard-setting institutional publishing house that 
pursues the enhancement of knowledge and scien-
tific propagation while rising to the challenges posed 
in the twenty-first century.
Ramón B. Rodríguez
Director, Editorial CSIC
http://editorial.csic.es
http://edicionelectronica.csic.es
© 2015 CSIC. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the 
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (by-nc) Spain 3.0 License.


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