University of Economics - Prague New Auditorium

1. The future is like a strategic game. Success belongs not to the biggest, but to the smartest ... those who foresee what their competitors can't, those who bet on a strategy rather than pure power. Information strategies, information resources ... that's what it is all about.

2. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 University of Economics - Prague New Auditorium Toshka Borisova

3. IX Annual Conference on ProfessionalInformation Resources, Prague, 2003 • University of Economics http://www.vse.cz/ • Library http://ciks.vse.cz/CIKS/English/default.asp Toshka Borisova

4. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Jaroslava Durčáková, Rector of the University of Economics in Prague; Czech Republic • Welcome Address by the Czech Minister of Informatics • Vladimír Mlynář, Minister of Informatics of the Czech Republic; Czech Republic • Why Conduct User Studies? The Role of Empirical Evidence in Improving the Practice of Librarianship Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; USA Empirical evidence that can be directly applied to the improvement of library practices such as the definition and development of reference services, the ways in which library users can be introduced to new electronic materials, and the design of training programs for library and database users Toshka Borisova

5. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Learning Organization, Networked Sharing of Knowledge, and Changes of User Behaviour Richard Papík, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University Prague; Czech Republic Phenomenons of learning organization and society based on knowledge, when an user needs fast and relevant information and knowledge. Networked communication (incl. roles Internet) and networked sharing of sources have changed information behaviour. • Searching and Creating Value for Users of Online Information Services Radovan Kačín, University of Economics, Prague; Czech Republic “Training of end-users requires co-operation of librarians and specialists in respective fields, or better, training of such specialists, who can include online sources in their teaching and work. Such specialists are in a better position to identify useful functions and sources for their field”. • Invitation to the EUSIDIC Annual Conference 2003 in Prague Johan van Halm, EUSIDIC; The Netherlands A brief invitation to the EUSIDIC (The European Association of Information Services) Annual Conference 2003 to be held in Prague on 19th - 22nd October 2003. Toshka Borisova

6. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Advanced Search Techniques: How the Super Searchers Mine For Gold on the Web Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services Inc.; USA The tools you need to search efficiently and effectively, insight into how search engines are constructed and what their strengths and limitations are, and practical tips and techniques for using the web as a research tool.What information is hidden in the “Invisible Web” and how to find information that is not included in search engines. • The World According to Google • Ondřej Pečený, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University Prague; Czech Republic Google offers new tools and services such as Froogle, pages focused on searching in Internet shops, Google News with more than 4000 continuously updated news sources or the possibility to translate text or entire web pages. You can pay a fee for an answer to your question when using beta version of Google Answers. It should be answered within 24 hours. Toshka Borisova

7. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Separating a Wheat from the Chaff: Evaluating Sources on the internet Petr Boldiš, Institute of Librarianship and Information Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague; Czech Republic Problems: • Information is inaccurate or unreliable. • Information is out-of-date. • Information is plagiarized. • Electronic Documents in Libraries : OPACs vs. Gateways Klára Koltay, Debrecen University Library; Hungary The method described here aims at a complex approach of registering, organizing and providing access to electronic documents in a library environment. www.lib.unideb.hu - both for the catalogue with electronic documents and the web lists) Toshka Borisova

8. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • The Problems of the Present Internet and Some Proposed Solutions Soňa Makulová, Comenius University, Faculty of Arts; Slovakia Questions: - what are people trying to find on the Internet and what services are offered by the individual search tools, - what do users expect from the search tools and what is their search behaviors, - what are the necessary improvements for more effective searching in internet, - how do the latest research and trends provide answers to these problems. Toshka Borisova

9. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Semantic web Vilém Sklenák, Prague University of Economics; Czech Republic What is semantic web. Data modeling - Schemes. Ontology, Inference, Topic Maps. Languages of Semantic Web - XML, RDF, DAML+OIL, ... Today's Semantic web • What You Didn't See Is What You Get: Dynamic Classification Pavel Kocourek, INCAD; Czech Republic Dynamic classification is a new revolutionary technology that specifically empowers the creative, intuitive thought processes. Convert technology helps individuals determine exactly what they are looking for, as they need it, even when they don't know exactly what they need. Toshka Borisova

10. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 Oxford Online: Tradition, Excellence, Innovation Anne Kail, Oxford University Press; United Kingdom • American National Biography Online www.anb.org - the premier biographical work on people from all walks of life who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. • Award-winning Oxford Reference Online www.oxfordreference.com to search simultaneously across more than 100 dictionaries and reference books and exploit this expanding treasure chest of facts. • The unique Grove Dictionaries of Music and Art (www.grovemusic.com and www.groveart.com Aspects of Accessibility and Usage of Electronic Research Information in Estonia and Other Transition Countries. Toomas Liivamägi, Tartu University Library; EstoniaCo-authors: Aira Lepik, PhD, Department of Information Studies and Doctoral School of Social Sciences at Tallinn Pedagogical University; Estonia. The author applied the user statistics of EBSCO database, purchased to a number of transition countries via the eIFL project with the support of OSI in recent years. Toshka Borisova

11. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • New Linking Solutions from Ovid Technologies Erik-Jan van Kleef, Ovid Technologies; Germany Ovid announced Ovid LinkSolver™, its powerful new universal link resolver that provides end-users with significantly advanced linking capabilities with which to access their library’s entire collection of web-based content, as well as a wealth of Internet resources, regardless of where they reside. • New Services by Albertina icome Praha Aimed at Users of Electronic Information Resources Vladimír Karen, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o.; Czech Republic Albertina icome Praha, the leading distributor of electronic information resources in the Czech Republic Toshka Borisova

12. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • CSA Introduces:RefWorks - the Web-based Bibliographic Management ToolFulltext Searchable on the IDS - the SAGE Collections Gabriele Bertioli, CSA; United Kingdom RefWorks allows every user to creates a personal database to organize, access and disseminate information. You can use your references to write papers and automatically format your work and create bibliography in seconds in a variety of output styles. The SAGE Collections offer full-text access to the most popular journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Politics and International Relations and Sociology published by SAGE. Users can subscribe to one or more of the collections. Each is designed as a comprehensive, discipline-specific package with full-text retrieval of articles, basic and advanced search options with up to 20 years of back issues Toshka Borisova

13. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Workflow Integrated Solutions for Libraries: Management of Serials and Monographs Kai-Henning Gerlach, R.R. Bowker; GermanyCo-authors: Yne Hogetoorn, R.R. Bowker R.R. Bowker will demonstrate a selection of the key features that have recently been added to Bowker’s online bibliographic & serials databases - Global Books in Print and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. These newly developed tools help all users to manage, locate, and directly access their electronic and print holdings. Toshka Borisova

14. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • SpringerLink - E-content beyond Journals Ulrike Lengwenat, Springer-Verlag; Germany SpringerLink, Springer-Verlag’s online information service for scientific, technical, and medical information provides electronic access to over 430 journals and 1600 books. Lecture Notes in Computer Science with over 1000 volumes online is the platform for one of the world’s most authoritative computer science research funds. It reports the latest results in computing, information technology research, development and education. The complete content – 135 000 pages – is fully indexed and searchable. The SpringerLink Online First service enables users to access peer reviewed articles well before print publication. This gives researchers a competitive edge within the industry. NB! Non-subscribers enjoy free access to the tables of contents and abstracts Toshka Borisova

15. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • New Electronic Products and Developments from K.G. Saur / Gale Ulrike Engel, K.G. Saur Verlag / A Gale Group - Thomson Learning Company; Germany “The English Language Bibliography 1945 to the Present” is the largest bibliographical database of its kind as it lists over 12 million books and serials in the English language incl. CIP records “The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985”, the full digitization of The Times newspaper, is an outstanding social history research tool The new “Business & Company Resource Center” offers excellent search possibilities for all kinds of business related questions The “International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association (MLA)” is now available in the well-known InfoTrac Web search interface New developments include: Partnership between Gale and ingenta to seamlessly access up to 10.000 full text electronic journals in the InfoTrac Web interface OpenURL and SFX linking Cross-product searching Toshka Borisova

16. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Digital Delivery of Teaching Materials • Robert Ingram-Smith ProQuest Information and Learning; United Kingdom • How XanEdu, as one of the worlds leading commercial providers of digital teaching materials, is used both in its domestic US base and internationally by some of the world's leading business schools an university faculties.. • Kluwer Online - Accelerating the World of ResearchAlan Harris, Kluwer Academic Publishers; Netherlands • Kluwer e-journals • Kluwer e-books • Kluwer e-reference works • Kluwer Custom Books Toshka Borisova

17. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • PEC = Portal of Electronic PeriodicalsMarie Paráková, Central Library, Charles University in Prague; Czech RepublicCo-authors: Petr Boldiš, postgraduate student of Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University • browsing of journals and basic classification • searching according journal title, publisher, ISSN • browsing and searching keywords of journals • indexes of publishers, journal titles and keywords • browsing the collections of each faculties of Charles University • One Step Ahead with ScienceDirectAnnemarie Koot, Elsevier Science ; Netherlands • ScienceDirect is a division of Elsevier Science (www.elsevier.com) • ScienceDirect, the world's largest provider of scientific, technical and medical information, is an open platform offering its subscribers desktop access to more than 2 million full-text articles. Coverage includes over 1,500 journals published by Elsevier Science and dynamic linking to journals from around 120 leading STM publishers through CrossRef. Toshka Borisova

18. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Principles, Actors, Models, Workflows and Technologies in Electronic Dissertations Systems • Eva Bratková, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University Prague; Czech RepublicThe workflows of creation, submission or deposit and defense of electronic dissertations, including processes of authors preparation and support, solution of author and other rights and legislative frameworks of these systems are discussed in details • The Electronic Database of Academic Theses at FEA MU • Jiří Poláček, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University Iin Brno; Czech Republic Some of the disadvantages (lack of interest of international publishers and database producers, lower citedness, lack of peer-review process, difficulties, when e-preprints are submitted to printed journal editorial boards) are now successfully solved. It is possible that the Global Health Network (global health information server - GHIS) represents Toshka Borisova

19. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Accessibility of Czech theses: starting points for future solutions Martin Svoboda, State Technical Library; Czech RepublicCo-authors: Jan Bayer, State Technical Library Theses (bachelor, diploma, doctoral, dissertation and habilitation works) represent an important component of image and of evaluation of a university. • E-papers: Blind Alley of the Publication Development? Who is Hampered? Who Profits? Milan Špála, Charles University in Prague, First Medical Faculty; Czech Republic Toshka Borisova

20. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Academic Information Portals Kerstin Zimmermann, ftw. (Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna); Austria PhysNet (http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/PhysNet/) and Math-Net (http://www.math-net.de/) serve this need in natural science for years. At the moment interdisciplinary portals like MareNet (a href="http://www.marenet.de/MareNet/">http://www.marenet.de/MareNet/) and the Telecom Portal (http://userver.ftw.at/~kerstin/telecomportal/) are being established and trying to solve special problems link common keyword, different classification schemes. • CABI Publishing : serving global applied life science research Chris Ison, CABI Publishing; United Kingdoms For 90 years CABI Publishing has delivered information services to the global scientific community. In 2003, CABI serves a widening community across the applied life science and agricultural markets with a unique set of database, primary journal, book and compendium services. . New services such as www.forestscience.info, www.leisuretourism.com build on the foundations of the core CAB ABSTRACTS and CAB HEALTH databases Toshka Borisova

21. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Electronic EU Information Service Provided by the European Documentation Centre at Tartu University Library Ruth Tammeorg, Tartu University Library; Estonia Since 1998, the European Documentation Center (EDC) acts as the supporting center for informing the public of South Estonia of the issues of the European Union. www.euroinfo.ee/discus. • Country and Business Analysis and Forecasting from the Economist Intelligence Unit Raul Garcia Rodriguez, Economist Intelligence Unit; United Kingdom The Economist Intelligence Unit is a comprehensive and independent source of global data and analysis on world markets. We continuously assess and forecast the political, economic and business conditions in 195 countries. As part of The Economist Group, publisher of the weekly The Economist newspaper, we have an unparalleled reputation for delivering reliable business intelligence to our clients throughout the world. Toshka Borisova

22. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Comprehensive Agency Information on the EU Přemysl Cenkl, Czech News Agency; Czech Republic The Czech News Agency has produced a database on the European Union since the year 2000. The database contains all important information sources on the EU • Public Access to European Documents Michael Duero, European Court of Auditors; Luxembourg The speech gives a short overview over the tools and instruments facilitating access to information concerning the Institutions and offers a closer look at the legal basis for access to documents. In this context Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001* is considered a document of central importance and will be presented in detail. Toshka Borisova

23. IX Annual Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, 2003 • Simplified EU legislation and its presentation on the internet Jitka Hradilová, Institute of Librarianship and Information Studies, Charles University in Prague; Czech Republic Internet presentation of the simplified legislation forms a part of EUR-Lex on www.europa.eu.int • EU programmes IST and eContent Romana Křížová, Cross Czech; Czech Republic Program IST is focused on research and innovations in the field of information technologies, program e-Content is focused on information market development and building Toshka Borisova

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