The article gives an overview of the conference Research information systems in the EU - Standardization and Compatibility held in Bratislava at the end of April 2009. Topics of conference covered European format CERIF, Czech system of research and development and its evaluation, structure and functions of Hungarian system HunCRIS, detailed structure of Czech system ISVaV and its microdata and finally system of organization of system of research and development in Slovac Republic and its future.

The article is a short overview of news and development of the tools and databases produced by Thomson Reuters. It introduces a new analytical tool for journals JADE and informs about enhancements in the Web of Science in Journal Citation Reports as an establishing of five-year Impact Factor or a new metric Eigenfactor. The article summarizes the analytical tools and its reports for the research assessment and mentions two new portals ResearchersID and InCites.

This article provides a short overview of the MESUR project and its major objective to enriching the toolkit used for the assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data.

This article gives an overview of the Dr. Vladimír Albrecht’s (Technology Centre AS CR) lecture on the topic of European research assessment in the course Introduction to Scientometrics organized by the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship of Charles University in Prague. The participants were informed about the activities of the Technology Centre AS CR, broad issue of the Framework Programmes and possibilities of its assessment.

This article gives an overview of dr. Hana Skálová's (First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University) lecture on the topic of the registration of the publication research outputs in the course Introduction to Scientometrics organized by the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship of Charles University in Prague. The lecture was focused on the process of the data collection and control, data format and structure and on the system of national and institutional repositories as well as its assessment on both levels. The second part of the lecture covered the practice on the First Faculty of Medicine and their informational support of the process.