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José Ramón Pérez Álvarez-Ossorio (1932-) is an Spanish information scientist.

'''Life'''

José Ramón Pérez Álvarez-Ossorio was born in 1932 in Seville, Spain.

He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Seville and received his doctorate in Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 1956, he joined the Information and Documentation Center (CID) of the Juan de la Cierva Foundation for Scientific and Technical Research, part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in Madrid.

In 1962, he became Deputy Director of the CID. From 1963 to 1969, he served as Commissioner for International Scientific Cooperation and Director General for Scientific Promotion and Cooperation at the Ministry of Education and Science; and as Secretary General of the Advisory Commission on Scientific Research, attached to the Office of the Prime Minister of Spain.

He was Spain's delegate to the OECD's Committees on Research and Science Policy, and president of the Spanish Commission for UNISIST (UNESCO). From 1968 to 1983, he was director of the CID, a center that in 1975 became the Institute of Information and Documentation in Science and Technology (ICYT) and later the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC).

Other positions held:

President of the Spanish Commission to the Federation of Information and Documentation (FID) (of which he was named Honorary Fellow)

Member of the Working Groups of the Ministry of Education and Science for the establishment of Guidelines for a National Plan for the Development of Scientific Documentation in Spain (PLANIDOC).

President of Commission 50 "Documentation" of the Spanish Association for Standardization (AENOR).

On May 10, 1957, he married María Jurado Fernández in Seville, Spain.

He retired in 2002.

'''Contributions'''

He directed the Information and Documentation Center (CID/ICYT), Spain's leading center for information science, which participated in international research projects, developed thesauri and databases, and was a major document delivery center.

He was a frequent speaker at conferences and congresses.

He represented Spain in the Federation of Information and Documentation (FID) and other organizations.

He was the editor of the "Revista Española de Documentación Científica" (Spanish Journal of Scientific Documentation), Spain's leading information science journal.

'''Publications'''

"Difusión del conocimiento científico en la industria" (1958). ''Actas del Coloquio sobre Educación Científica y Difusión de la Ciencia. XXIV Congreso luso-español para el Progreso de las Ciencias''. Madrid (1958), pp. 79-100.

"Actividades de la Organización Europea de Cooperación Económica en el campo de la investigación aplicada" (1960). ''Revista de ciencia aplicada'' (1960), XIV, n. 72, pp. 34-39.

"Experiences obtained with the Filmorex equipment in an industrial information service". ''Atti del Congresso Internazionale sulla Documentazione e l'Informazione scientifico-tecnica'' (1964) Roma, n. 42, 9 pp.

"Interlinking information services for industry with scientific and technical information and documentation services". ''Education and training. Theory and provision'', ''FID Publication'' n. 576, The Hague (1979), pp. 79-81.

"External information provisión for small and médium-size industry (A review of a NOBIN Report)". ''International forum to information and documentation'' (1984), vol. 9, n. 1, pp. 19-20.

"Education and training in the context of a national scientific information policy". In Dosa M. & Froehlich J. (Eds.). ''Curriculum development in a changing world''. FID, (1985), 8 pp.

"External information provision for small and medium-sized industry". ''International forum to information and documentation'' (1986), vol. 11, n. 4, pp. 19-20.

''Introducción a la Información y Documentación Científica'', 1988. Madrid: Alhambra.

"Essential problems in terminology for informatics and documentation: Terminological dictionary of Information Sciences". ''FID Publication'' n. 671, (1988), VINITI, Moscow.

''Interregional Euro-Arab technical meeting on information systems and networks''. (1991), Final Report. Madrid: ICYT.

"Document supply in Spain in the field of science and technology: An analysis of demand". ''Interlending and document supply'' (1992), vol. 20, n. 3, pp. 96-101.

"La FID ante su centenario", ''Information World en Español'', n. 29, Nov. 1994, pp. 24-25. <nowiki>https://www.scimagoepi.com/la-fid-ante-su-centenario</nowiki>

"International visibility of domestic scientific literature". ''Journal of Information Science'' (1997), vol. 23, n. 1, pp. 98-101.

'''Further reading'''

See a complete list of works in this tribute book published on the occasion of his retirement in 2002:

''José Ramón Pérez Álvarez-Ossorio: Reflexiones y artículos de Documentación.'' Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (CINDOC-CSIC), 2003, 736 pp. <nowiki>http://hdl.handle.net/10261/37019</nowiki>