Relating to the connection between information science and bibliography (and librarianship), the elements are given to compare the concepts of Répertoire Bibliographique Universel (RBU) and COBIB within the COBISS system. Different aspects of understanding the development of bibliographies and the author's personal view of the development of bibliographies are presented. According to Paul Otlet's idea, conceived at the end of the 19th century, RBU was to represent the universal bibliography of all books and other publications from all countries, from all times and from all subject areas, organised by subject and author. Catalogues should represent the first stage of RBU. National libraries should be responsible for the catalogue of books, whereas specialised international associations should be responsible for entering data on periodicals in their fields of expertise. The universal bibliography is conceived as a part of the Mundaneum (world centre/library). In this way, human knowledge would be fully processed only once, stored at a single place and protected from wars and revolutions. In 1950, UNESCO recommended the creation of current national bibliographies. A bibliography makes it possible to find a publication and also, it provides access to this publication. The creation of bibliographic databases and classification systems with the purpose of organising information and of making the search for information (information retrieval, IR) possible is one of the key areas and one of the main stages in the development of information science. IR was initially document retrieval (DR). The aim of IR systems should be to provide information on facts (fact retrieval, FR) in relation to a search request. Also today, IR usually means DR and not FR, whereas DR should be more a part of librarianship and archival studies. Information retrieval experts are of the opinion that FR is the most extreme purpose of information science. However, as users, we need also bibliographic information systems. Particularly highlighted is the connection betwen bibliographical science and bibliometrics, as bibliographic databases are also the basis for such analyses. The typology of documents is an issue, intensively dealt with by experts ever since ISI citation indexes were first used to evaluate research results. The theoretical basis for the development of typologies is given, which depends on the answer to the question whether a typology is a categorisation or a classification. The basic concept of universal bibliographic control supposes that any publication in the world should be recorded once only, in the country of its origin. On the basis of the case of the cultural and political aspects of (national) bibliographies in the countries that have emerged after the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia is shown that bibliographic efforts are not a professional issue only but represent also the reflection of national culture.
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.
The paper gives a new insight into the cataloguing practice in the COBISS.SI system, primarily regarding the necessity of bibliographic data for the management of bibliographies for researchers and research organisations. The paper evaluates two areas in the cataloguing practice, both of them optional but recommended.
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.
Eugene Garfield has provided a basis for the development and growth of scientometrics and promotion of sociology of science with his Current Contents and in particular with the Science Citation Index.
The article presents the course of the preparation and experience of Specialised Information Centres (OSIC) with the verification of bibliographic units according to the typology of documents in the COBISS system within the framework of the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).
The novelty of the new web bibliographies version V3.5 is that bibliographic units, for which it has been established that they are covered by the Web of Science (WoS), are linked to the corresponding WoS record; in addition to that citation data is displayed.
Presented is the methodology of managing researchers’ bibliographies within the COBISS.SI system. A research classification scheme is used for unique identification of researchers. It is through this classification scheme that links are made to official records of the Slovenian Research Agency, containing information on researchers and developers, and to the Slovenian Current Research Information System (SICRIS).
The web application developed within the COBISS.SI system and intended for bibliographies of researchers and professionals as well as for articles published in serials is addressed. Possible methods for creating different types of bibliographies and methods for selecting and/or excluding bibliographic items when creating bibliographies of authors/researchers are presented.
