CRIS and the Online Bibliographic System: SICRIS and COBISS

SICRIS (Slovenian Current Research Information System)

COBISS (Cooperative Online Bibliographic Information System and Services)

Darinka Šeško, IZUM – Institute of Information Science

Moscow, 8 – 11 October 2008

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Ministries and Slovenian Research Agency

• Law on Research Activity

• National Research and Development Programme

• Secondary legislation (acts, rules, etc.)

• Financing (public calls for tenders)

• Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, and other ministries

• Slovenian Research Agency (since 2003)

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SICRIS Entities, Structure, etc.

• As per 29 September 2008:

- Research organisations (746)

- Research groups (1,217)

- Researchers (12,7256)

- Research projects (4,729)

- Research programmes (600)

• Compliant to CERIF

• Link between SICRIS and COBISS

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Other Data Included in SICRIS

• Research organizations and researchers not conforming to the very strict rules of the Ministry

• Freelancers, experts, etc.

• Researchers of Slovenian origin

The whole research potential of Slovenia

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Users of SICRIS

• Researchers

• R&D organisations

• State administration

• Economy & industry

• International research area

• General public

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COBISS

• COBISS, an organisational model of joining libraries into a uniform Library Information System (LIS) with

− shared cataloguing

− COBIB shared bibliographic database (union catalogue)

− local bibliographic databases of participating libraries

− a number of other functions

• COBISS software applications

− Cataloguing (monographs, serials, articles, other)

− COBISS/OPAC

− Local applications (Loan, Acquisitions, Reports, etc.)

− Other applications (Researchers’ Bibliographies, etc.)

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Researchers’ Bibliographies

• Source: COBISS.SI and its shared bibliographic database COBIB.SI

• For researchers and other groups: not only a bibliography, but also a tool for quantitative and qualitative measurement

− Classification by typology

− Algorithms permitting various categorisations (taken into account IF, SCIE, SSCI, A&H, JCR, WoS, etc.)

− Results expressed in “points”

− Ministries and universities may decide on how to interpret and use the application for their own purposes (performance evaluation, habilitation process, etc.)

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Researchers’ Bibliographies (example)

• Types: representative, complete, evaluated, etc.

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Researchers’ Bibliographies (example)

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SICRIS – http://sicris.izum.si

COBISS – http://www.cobiss.si

IZUM – Institute of Information Science – http://www.izum.si

ARRS – Slovenian Research Agency – http://www.arrs.gov.si

Thank you for your attention!