Agnès Ponsati

Agnès Ponsati holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Diploma in Librarianship and Documentation from the University of Barcelona. Agnès is a specialist in automated library systems in distributed networks and in management and coordination of library services and collections at research hybrid-digital libraries. She brings more than 30 years of experience to her role. Her first role was in the Technical Department of Barcelona’s University Library (1987-1990) and she then worked as Automation Manager at the Catalonian CSIC libraries branch (1990-1993), which manages the most important scientific library network in Spain.  Since 1994 Agnès has worked at the Spanish National Library, serving as Director of the Division of Processes and Digital Services (2017-18) and is currently Head of the CSIC Unit of Information Resources for Research.

Agnès is responsible for the CSIC Virtual Library and the management of the library’s digital collections and all technological supporting tools. She’s been involved in promoting Open Access among the CSIC scientific community through CSIC Institutional Repository Digital. She has published papers on the technical management of library systems and collections in distributed environments and management of library services in the context of scientific and research libraries (see https://digital.csic.es/cris/rp/rp00821). As part of her advocacy work, Agnès has taken part in several national and European projects on the automation of document collections, catalogue conversion systems, bibliographic protocols, meta-search engines, and the reuse of heritage collections by applying new technologies. She also has extensive experience overseeing publishing negotiations and licensing digital contents and has been a member of several publishers’ library advisory boards (ELSEVIER, SPRINGER, WILEY, IOP, BRILL, Taylor and Francis).

Lately she has been involved in the achievement of several transformative agreements carried out by the CSIC under the Open Access Program for CSIC authors. She is a member of the Open Science Technical Commission created by the Ministry of Science and Research (2019-) to elaborate the document defining the National Strategy for Open Science and in the CRUE-CSIC commission for the negotiation of the Publishing and Reading agreements (Elsevier, Springer, ACS Wiley). Agnès is also member of the SCOAP3 Global Council representing the Spanish library consortia. She has been member of the LIBER Executive Board (2017-2021), the SPARC Europe Executive Board (2018-2021), the Science Europe Open Access Working Group (2011-2021), and the Science Europe Open Science Working Group (2022). Since 2022, she has worked as part of the commission in charge of defining the new strategic plan 2024-2028 of REBIUN (Network of University and Scientific Libraries).