The purpose of this directory is to continue providing useful tools and support tools for the functioning of the Spanish Science and Technology System. The directory is a compilation of various public entities that actively participate in the development of R&D&I in Spain. It is structured based on the sectors which form the backbone of scientific and innovative activity, namely: the ministries of the Public Administration, autonomous bodies under the Administration, Public Research Organisations, public research centres and entities, parliamentary committees, science and technology parks, associations, foundations, universities, etc. At the Autonomous Community level the directory took into account those departments, hospitals and centres that are responsible for the science and technology fields in their Autonomous Communities.

This manual consists of nine articles prepared by directors, publishers or heads of Spanish journals of quality and renowned prestige in their different areas of knowledge. They all propose a series of examples of good practices that have been implemented in the publishing of scientific journals and have their experiences at the head of their respective publications, the difficulties that they have had to face throughout the years that they have been directing the journals and the evolution of the scientific journal publishing sector in our country and around the world.

This Executive Summary includes a brief analysis of the publication “Guidelines for the Management of the Mobility of the Foreign Researcher in Spain 2014”.

This publication includes the main aspects that are of interest to researchers who come, for the first time, to our country due to scientific missions, work or scholarships, and that facilitate their entry and integration. The guide provides information about the conditions of entry and residency in Spain, one of the aspects that most concerns research staff, and it details the processes and procedures that allow a researcher to enter our country, amongst them the type of visas.

This report includes, on one hand, evolution in the bibliometric field for the period from 2002 to 2006 and, on the other, the comparative analysis of the data from 2005 and 2006. The sources of information for this study are two tools of renowned international prestige: WoS (Web of Science), which brings together all of the databases of citations published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and, as a new feature in this edition, the database of Scopus, which includes the largest collection worldwide of abstracts, references and indexes of the scientific, technical and medical literature.