SEARCH IN OUR CATALOG
PARTNERSHIP_
PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION
The Library is a member of several associations at regional, national, and international levels. We work closely with our strategic partners to share knowledge and continue growing.
Our Library is a member of the American Library Association, the world’s oldest and largest library association, founded in 1876 to advance library services and the profession of librarianship. With a mission to promote learning and equitable access to information for all, ALA provides leadership in developing and improving library and information services. As part of this membership, our Library also participates in several ALA divisions, including LITA, LLAMA, and ACRL, which focus on technology, leadership, management, and academic research libraries.
The Business Librarians Association provides a forum for sharing ideas, fostering collaboration, and building professional networks among its members. Each year, it organizes a friendly conference hosted by a member institution, featuring keynote speakers, presentations, and social activities. With a different theme explored annually, the event encourages knowledge exchange and cooperation.
CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences unites ten leading European higher education institutions in the social sciences, humanities, business management and public policy. The CIVICA alliance aims to serve European societies and educate the next generations of Europeans. Building upon decades of successful partnerships and developing an innovative, resilient, and future-oriented European University that actively contributes to the transformation of European higher education and research.
COAR is an international organization that works to enhance the visibility and application of open access repositories. It promotes collaboration, develops global standards, and advocates for open access to scholarly outputs, supporting a sustainable and interoperable network of repositories worldwide. COAR aims to improve access to knowledge and encourage the sharing of research through open access practices.
The Library is a member of the European Business School Librarian’s Group. The purpose of EBSLG is to provide a pan-European forum for the directors of the libraries of the leading European business schools. Members meet twice per year to discuss issues of mutual interest, share information, and participate actively in working groups.
Our Library is a partner of EconBiz, a search portal for economics and business studies that offers literature searches across important German and international databases and full text on the internet.
Its mission is to enable top research in economics and business studies with easy access to quality subject information in combination with state-of-the-art search features.
Documentation Centre of Fundación MAPFRE, is an information resource centre, focused on Insurance, Risk Management and Social Security, Economics, Silver Economy and Law. Its mission is to ensure free and open access to information and documentation for supporting professional, teaching, and research activities, fostering knowledge generation and exchange.
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is a global organization representing libraries and information services. It works to promote high standards in library and information services, encourages international cooperation, and advocates for libraries worldwide. IFLA provides a platform for professionals to share knowledge and develop best practices.
The Library is a member of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries), the main network for research libraries in Europe. LIBER comprises more than 400 national, university and other libraries from more than 40 countries. LIBER’s network is not restricted to the area of the European Union and the participation of European research libraries outside the European Union is widely encouraged.
The Library has partnered with OCLC, the world’s largest provider of research and library services, to implement the cloud-based WorldCat Library Management System (WMS), becoming the first library in Spain, one of the first in Europe, and the first Business School library in Europe to adopt this advanced technology. OCLC is a nonprofit membership organization that supports over 72,000 libraries in 170 countries by offering services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, and manage materials, while also fostering innovation in access to global information and reducing library costs.
Our Library is a member of The Academic Libraries Network REBIUN. The primary objective is to provide a REBIUN stable body representing all Spanish university libraries. Among the highlights REBIUN provides: raising the level of services and library infrastructure through cooperation, conducting cooperative actions that benefit users of Spanish university libraries, maintaining contacts with various agencies, and encouraging exchange and staff training.
The Library collaborates with The Spanish Association for Documentation and Information (SEDIC), which is committed to furthering exchanges of experiences and training librarians, documentarians, and other professionals in the information sector. The Association is also actively involved as a representative of our professional group’s interests at Spanish government institutions, the European Union, and different international agencies.
UNIRIS is a cooperative purchasing group formed by several Spanish universities, both public and private, along with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. The group is led by university libraries and focuses on acquiring scientific information resources, such as journals, books, and databases, as well as software for information management. The goal is to secure the best possible conditions for acquiring these resources by pooling efforts.
As members of the CIVICA, IEU researchers have access to trainings/webinars organized by the group.
Visit the My.CIVICA webiste and check out the IEU Library Training Calendar for CIVICA events.
