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Virtual Library

Welcome to CIDEC's (European Information and Documentation Center for Public, Social and Cooperative Economics) Virtual Library. Here you will be able to find a great documentary variety about the fields included in the Social and Solidarity Economy mainly in open access.

The Publications search engine allows you to search and filter the resources of the CIDEC Virtual Library using the following options:

  1. By Title (título): to perform a search, enter the search term(s) in the TITLE field.
  2. By Author (autor): enter the surname or full name of the author of interest in the Author field.
  3. By Collections (colecciones): you can choose one or more options.
  4. By publication types (tipos de publicación): articles, conferences, books, reports, theses, dissertations, theses. In the Type of publication you can select one or several typologies.
  5. By category (categoría): associations, Social Economy, cooperatives, etc. You can choose one or more categories.
  6. By Year (año): only one year can be entered for the year of publication.
  7. By ISBN: search by the ISBN of the publication.
  8. By ISSN: search by the ISSN of the publication.
  9. By Full text: search for those available in open access.
  10. Sort by: Date-Author-Types of publication-Date of acquisition
  11. Show in citation format: choose this option to show the results in citation format.

The result of the search is a list distributed by default in chronological order (from the most recent to the oldest). For a more refined search, you can change the sort order.