Library



INPE has a central library in São José dos Campos and two others in Cachoeira Paulista that make up the Institute’s Information and Documentation System (SID). Students and researchers have libraries among the best and most up to date in Latin America in these areas of knowledge.

Created in 1965, with the specific mission of promoting specialized information for the institute’s technical-scientific community, the INPE Physical Library collection currently has over 82,600 volumes including books, theses, reports and maps, and more than 158,000 issues. periodicals. About 95% of the collection consists of publications from INPE’s areas of expertise, namely Space and Atmosphere Science, Space Applications, Meteorology, Earth System Science and Space Engineering and Technology. The collection also has a Map Library composed of approximately 4,800 maps, including topographic charts, radar and satellite images, nautical charts, political, hydrographic, geological maps, the RADAM Project, and other publications such as Atlas, Encyclopedias, Groundwater Study. and Soil Agricultural Aptitude.

INPE’s Scientific Memory Digital Library (BDMCI) contains over 45,300 metadata records, of which more than 30,200 of these contain the full text in digital format. As of 2001, all submissions have gone online making it easier for new contributions to be submitted in digital format. The collection has been growing at a rapid pace and currently offers access to over 6,000 electronic documents such as e-prints, online books, theses and dissertations. Since 2003, the Digital Library has become a data provider, complying with the International Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) standard, making works stored in the collection accessible from OAI service providers. scattered around the world. Thus, INPE’s works are included, for example, in the University of Michigan – OAIster database (with more than 9 million references) and in the IBICT’s Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) database.

All INPE students and faculty have access to several scientific publications (full version) available on the CAPES Periodicals Portal, as well as publications by publishers such as Elsevier, Academic Press, among many others. For locating and obtaining copies of documents in Brazil and abroad, INPE’s Information and Documentation Service maintains the following agreements: COMUT – Bibliographic Switching Program, ISTEC – “Ibero American Science and Technology Education Consortium”, REBAE – Engineering Libraries, BL – “British Library Document Supply” and the interlibrary loan. The system thus allows access to the content of numerous libraries around the world and access to electronic versions of the most important publications in INPE’s areas of expertise. The agreement between INPE and NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI) is underway for NASA to make available and disseminate all INPE’s intellectual production. This will give greater visibility to INPE as well as its Graduate Courses.