Wissenschaftliche Informationen aus einer Hand - Erfahrungen aus Kroatien / One-stop shop for scientific information - experiences from Croatia

Abstract

Since 1994 Croatian university and special libraries are working together in a project called Croatian Scientific Information System. Its intention is to develop various information services and to provide access to electronic resources for their patrons. Recently two internet portals have been developed. ZIND is a portal for electronic resources and EJOL serves as a portal for e-journals. Both feature subject oriented web interfaces with numerous search and browse options. ZIND uses LibData from the University of Minnesota to create a database with Dublin Core metadata. LibData integrates easy-to-use web authoring tools with a large database of information resources and produces dynamically generated library web pages. Designed as single access gateway ZIND provides easy access to a multidisciplinary mixture of scientific information products and services. Thirty-four libraries participate in EJOL. It uses an in-house made database (6830 journals) in which every journal title is described according to UNIMARC cataloguing rules. Besides managing access to commercial e-journals EJOL serves as a gateway to open access e-journals (433 titles) and Croatian journals (70 titles). Librarians administrate the level of accessibility for their local institute.

Keywords

• Electronic resources
• E-journals
• Subject portals