The basis for the analysis of scientific and similar monographs (academic books) in Slovenia in the period from 2013 to 2023 were bibliographic records in the COBIB.SI database that contain also information on the type of scientific publication (for less than half of the records verified). During this period, an average of 520 to 1245 monographs were published annually (depending on which types of works are counted as academic books and how reissues, such as reprints, new editions and e-books, are treated). The number was declining, especially after 2019; it has fallen by around 6.5% per year. The locations of publications were linked to university centres; almost three quarters of monographs were published in Ljubljana. The total number of Slovenian publishers that publish academic books as defined in the sample amounted to almost 1,500, of which 20 publishers produced more than 50% of all monographs. One out of five academic books was published by the University of Ljubljana. Around 63–70% of academic books were in the social sciences and humanities. A similar proportion of publications were written in Slovenian, which was convincingly the first language of Slovenian academic books (71.5%). Just over 40% of academic books were published electronically, and the vast majority (over 80%) of them are freely accessible.
The article presents upgrades and features of the new SICRIS application version, based on updated trasfer of data from ARRS, migration to open source environment and updated web services. In 2022, the project of migration from the Windows platform (MS SQL, ASP.NET, IIS) to the Linux platform (PostgreSQL, Java EE, Wildfly) was completed.
Based on (1) the lists of Slovenian scientific journals in international databases used to evaluate publications by Slovenian researchers, (2) regular government calls for support of scientific journals, and (3) a more detailed review of the main international bibliographic databases for this system (SNIP, JCR, SJR), we can conclude that 219 Slovenian journals with scientific articles were published in 2021. Every second journal was founded after 1990, and about 60% of them belong to social sciences and humanities. Their publishers are Slovenian institutions and the journals are diamond journals: only 7.7% of journals are affiliated with major global publishers and only 3.7% use APC (Article Processing Charge).
The open access as a new bussiness model in scientific communication can have an impact on citations of scientific publications, which has been researched a lot. This article presents an analysis of the echo time, which indicates the period from publishing an article to the time of its first citation. The analysis of the echo time was made in two phases.
ZUM developed the COBISS/SciMet portal to monitor scientific publications and to evaluate publications published by Slovenian authors. The methodology of collecting, aggregating and processing data on Slovenian authors obtained from different information resources, e.g. WoS, Scopus, COBISS.SI, SICRIS, SNIP and JCR is described. The options of data display within the portal and the functionalities of the portal are presented. A new framework used for developing the COBISS/SciMet web application is presented.
Academic and research libraries/librarians were always important partners to the scientific research community. As a result of developments in scholarly communication, information resources availability in electronic form, networks and national research policies librarians are challenged to find new ways to engage with research communities.
Through the development of information and communication technologies, articles in electronic form have emerged. The journal Slovenian Nursing Review (Obzornik zdravstvene nege) also gained another media for transferring information, and this article presents the results of a study, in which users’ online behaviour was observed and the journal’s website traffic was measured.
