CRIS and the Online Bibliographic System: SICRIS and COBISS

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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
• RD 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, AH, 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!