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 ScienceMoscow, 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.siCOBISS – http://www.cobiss.si

IZUM – Institute of Information Science – http://www.izum.siARRS – Slovenian Research Agency – http://www.arrs.gov.si

Thank you for your attention!