Current bibliography research information systems in Poland

Abstract

In this article we give a general overview of the current state of the systems for managing current research information in Poland. We focus on information on bibliographic data, which has a special situation in the current science landscape of Poland. Management of the publication outcome on the university level in Poland is not satisfactory, given that not every university has a proper databases for this purpose. Also usually there is proper procedure ensuring, that publications are properly registered in the system, so systems are incomplete. State level aggregation of the publication information has been done each four years, and only limited amount of information has been collected, so there was no pressure to ensure proper quality of the present systems. Currently situation is changing, as there is a new central system developed to aggregate most of the data belonging to typical CRIS system. Part of this system is a Polish Scholarly Bibliography, which will attempt to provide current and complete information about publication outcome of the Polish academic institutions. As the system POL-on is developed to cover most of the parts of the information about research and higher education it covers two more important modules of this field - POL-index - a citation index for regional journals and a repository of the theses to be used for antiplagiarism purposes.