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The Institute of Information Sciences (IZUM) is a public, non-profit organisation founded by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in 2002 as a continuation of the former University Institute of Information Sciences (1992). The institute provides information services for research, education, and culture and, in particular, library information services in the national bibliographic system. IZUM cooperates with similar organisations the world over, expanding its activities abroad in accordance with the guidelines of its founder.

The Government of Slovenia brought forward the proposal for the transformation of the Institute of Information Sciences into the Regional Centre for Library Information Systems and Current Research Information Systems (IZUM) as a UNESCO Category 2 centre with a view to facilitating and consolidating multicultural collaboration and the exchange of information. The status was approved by UNESCO in November 2011 and the agreement was signed by both parties in September 2012.

COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library and the COBISS.Net

IZUM is engaged primarily with the development, maintenance, and operation of the COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library system and services, which constitute the root of the library information system in Slovenia. COBISS was developed by the institute in 1991 and today provides access to data contributed by over 400 Slovenian libraries.

In 2003, an agreement was signed on the establishment of the COBISS.Net network and the free exchange of bibliographic records created within autonomous library information systems of several countries. To date, over 600 libraries from Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia have become part of the network, while Bulgaria, Albania, and Kosovo are preparing for the implementation of the COBISS system.

SICRIS

IZUM and the Slovene Research Agency (ARRS) develop and maintain the SICRIS information system on research in Slovenia, which lists research projects currently underway, as well as research organisations, programmes, teams and individual researchers. SICRIS is integrated with the COBBIS system and its union bibliographic catalogue/database COBIB.SI, affording users access to the bibliographies of researchers. SICRIS is part of the ERGO (European Research Gateways Online) project, which provides information on R&D information in Europe. The institute also supports the development of similar information systems (E-CRIS) abroad.

Services and databases

On the basis of consortium agreements with foreign information services, IZUM provides its Slovene users free access to services and databases, such as Web of Science, ProQuest, and EIFL Direct – EBSCOhost. In collaboration with the University of Maribor, University of Nova Gorica, University of Primorska, Jožef Štefan Institute (IJS), University Medical Centre Maribor, and Educational Research Institute (ERI), IZUM develops and maintains a search platform which compiles the content of a number of online databases, enabling fast access to articles, library catalogues, electronic newspaper databases, electronic book services, etc.

External links

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-| status       = ROBOT INFOBOX TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK!
+| status       = NIFERTIK!
-| maintainer   =
+| maintainer   = Anja Mrak
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 | street              = Prešernova 17
 | town                = SI-2000 Maribor
+| map                = http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lon=15.65129&lat=46.56362&zoom=17&layer=mapnik
 | telephone           = 386 (0) 2 252 0331
 | fax                 = 386 (0) 2 252 4334
-| email               = cobissizum@izum.si
+| email               = izum@izum.si
 | website             = http://www.izum.si/
+| founded by = Government of the Republic of Slovenia
 | contacts = {{Contact
-| name                = Tomaž Seljak
+| name                = Aleš Bošnjak
 | role                = Director
-| telephone           = 386 (0) 2 252 0400
+| email               =
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-{{Abstract|
+{{Teaser|
-The Institute of Information Sciences (IZUM) is a public, non-profit organisation. Although it was founded by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, it is not part of the administration. Besides being defined as a public infrastructural institution, IZUM is also registered as a research organisation. IZUM operates in three organisational units – management, research and development of applications and services; computer engineering and services; and infrastructural R&D groups and services. IZUM is an information infrastructural service for Slovene science, culture and education which, along with other agents of information activities in the country, ensures Slovenia an entrance to the streams of the modern world's information society. This defines its mission; its functions are specified in the Foundation Act, passed by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. IZUM is an information service for research, education and culture and, in particular, a library information service in the national bibliographic system. At a scientific and professional level, IZUM co-operates with similar organisations worldwide, expanding its activities abroad in accordance with the guidelines of its founder. IZUM is engaged mainly in the development and operation of the [[COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library]] (co-operative online bibliographic system and services) system and services, which represent the root of the library information system in Slovenia. IZUM also develops the SICRIS (Slovene Current Research Information System) information system on research in Slovenia, which includes information about the identification and content of research projects, research institutions, teams and researchers. SICRIS is integrated into the information system of research projects in the European Union, named ERGO (European Research Gateways Online). IZUM also provides conditions for the development and operation of INFORS (INFOrmation Resources in Slovenia), which offers information on publicly accessible databases and information systems and their providers (local and foreign) in Slovenia. The INFORS system has been developed and maintained by Justinfo Ltd. On the basis of consortium agreements signed with foreign information services, IZUM provides users in Slovenia free access to some services and databases with full-text articles and summaries of disserations, eg Web of Science (citation indexes), OCLC FirstSearch - WorldCat (OCLC online world catalogue) and Electronic Collections Online (full-text articles), SwetScan (tables of contents of foreign scholarly journals), and Bell & Howell (UMI). Extensive educational activity and well-developed relations with the users of its products and services are a component of its understanding of the emergence of the information society, which is vital to the development of Slovenia.
+The [[Institute of Information Sciences (IZUM)]] is a public, non-profit organisation founded by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in [[established::2002]] as a continuation of the former University Institute of Information Sciences (1992). The institute provides information services for research, education, and culture and, in particular, library information services in the national bibliographic system. IZUM cooperates with similar organisations the world over, expanding its activities abroad in accordance with the guidelines of its founder.
+The Government of Slovenia brought forward the proposal for the transformation of the Institute of Information Sciences into the Regional Centre for Library Information Systems and Current Research Information Systems (IZUM) as a UNESCO Category 2 centre with a view to facilitating and consolidating multicultural collaboration and the exchange of information. The status was approved by UNESCO in November 2011 and the agreement was signed by both parties in September 2012.
 }}
+== COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library and the COBISS.Net==
+IZUM is engaged primarily with the development, maintenance, and operation of the [[COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library]] system and services, which constitute the root of the library information system in Slovenia. COBISS was developed by the institute in 1991 and today provides access to data contributed by over 400 Slovenian libraries.
+In 2003, an agreement was signed on the establishment of the COBISS.Net network and the free exchange of bibliographic records created within autonomous library information systems of several countries. To date, over 600 libraries from Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia have become part of the network, while Bulgaria, Albania, and Kosovo are preparing for the implementation of the COBISS system.
+== SICRIS ==
+IZUM and the [[Slovene Research Agency (ARRS)]] develop and maintain the SICRIS information system on research in Slovenia, which lists research projects currently underway, as well as research organisations, programmes, teams and individual researchers. SICRIS is integrated with the COBBIS system and its union bibliographic catalogue/database COBIB.SI, affording users access to the bibliographies of researchers. SICRIS is part of the ERGO (European Research Gateways Online) project, which provides information on R&D information in Europe. The institute also supports the development of similar information systems (E-CRIS) abroad.
+== Services and databases ==
+On the basis of consortium agreements with foreign information services, IZUM provides its Slovene users free access to services and databases, such as Web of Science, ProQuest, and EIFL Direct – EBSCOhost. In collaboration with the [[University of Maribor]], [[University of Nova Gorica]], [[University of Primorska]], [[Jožef Štefan Institute (IJS)]], University Medical Centre Maribor, and [[Educational Research Institute (ERI)]], IZUM develops and maintains a search platform which compiles the content of a number of online databases, enabling fast access to articles, library catalogues, electronic newspaper databases, electronic book services, etc.
 == See also ==
 * [[Institute of Information Sciences (IZUM) Library]]
+* [[COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library]]
+* [[COLIB - Slovene libraries database]]
+== External links ==
+* [http://www.izum.si/default-EN.htm IZUM website]
+* [http://sicris.izum.si/about/cris.aspx?lang=eng#kratka SICRIS database]
 [[Category:Research]]
 [[Category:Library research]]
+[[Category:Archival_&_librarian_education_and_research]]
+[[Category:Education_and_Research]]

Difference between revisions of "Institute of Information Sciences (IZUM)"

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COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library and the COBISS.Net

SICRIS

Services and databases

See also

External links

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