organisation - the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

LIBRARY
Margarida Meira Head
Head of facility since 2000
The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência library is an open access, specialised library in
biomedicine. Its bibliographic collection covers Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Pharmacology,
Microbiology, Physiology, Immunology, Virology, Cell Biology, Neuroscience
and Developmental Biology. The library is intended for researchers, faculty and visiting
scientists, students and staff of the IGC, but is also open to external users, either
from the national scientific community or from higher education institutions. It aims
to provide access to useful, diversified and up to date information, to improve services
provided, to acquire, register, maintain and distribute scientific information of
interest to or produced by researchers and students who work at the IGC.
The IGC library has a collection of printed journals in the field of health sciences,
that spans almost 30 years. Currently it subscribes approximately 325 international
scientific journals in electronic version. In addition, since 2004, the library belongs
to the national consortium Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online (b-on), which provides
online access to the contents of about 22,000 international scientific journals
and 18,000 e-books from 19 publishers, as well as to an important scientific
bibliographic database - the Web of Knowledge, which provides access to titles,
abstracts and citation and impact factor reposts of approximately 8,500 journals,
with records since 1945.
EQUIPMENT
AND MAINTENANCE
Nuno Moreno Head
PhD in Biophysics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2010
Head of Service since 2008
Equipment and Maintenance is a technical platform responsible for ensuring
effective equipment acquisition, distribution and usage. This year, it was fused
with the building maintenance and therefore accumulating related responsibilities.
We work closely with scientific facilities in order to provide cutting edge
service and a smooth workflow, ensuring high equipment up-time.
Our services include: equipment repair and maintenance, building of small
hardware apparatus, several in house, open source systems, namely, an online
resource scheduler, a small scientific database management system, a remote
resource monitoring system. We run a seminar series "Tech Minutiae" with the
aim of raising awareness, amongst scientists, of the most cutting edge techniques.
FACILITY STAFF
Ana Homem (Research Technician)
João Lagarto (Engineer)
Tiago Vale (Engineer)
Revez da Silva (Technician - ARSPLUS)
Pedro Lourenço (Technician - GDFSUEZ)
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE
Talks for school students, Alverca (April)
Guided tour of Miguel Palma's exhibition at CAM, Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon (April)
We also work with the Direction of the institute in helping new labs set up in
terms of equipment and space management.
IGC ANNUAL REPORT ‘11
FACILITIES AND SERVICES
102