Scientific research was the main topic of the 5th annual seminar on grey literature, which took place on October 23rd 2012 at the National Technical library in Prague. This year, 136 participants attended and the on-line stream was provided.

The ETD Working Group (within the framework of The Association of Libraries of Czech Universities) has finished an annual analysis of how ETDs are made available at Czech Universities (ETDs = electronic bachelor and diploma theses and dissertations). This analysis focused on the availability of ETDs in full text (and also ETDs not based on textual information) via university intranet and via the Internet ; it also focused on the use of software etc. Selected conclusions from December 2007 are included. Many Czech universities have prepared correlated internal rules of procedure. Libraries of Czech universities play an important role in these processes. More than 60 % of them uses proposed national metadata standard EVSKP-MS in local databases which was prepared by ETD Working Group. The licence agreements will be contracted in 2008 by more schools than last year. The submission of e-texts is usually mandatory, especially in cases of bachelor and diploma works. In about 50 % of Czech universities make ETDs available on the intranet. It seems that open source software DSpace is the most perspective ETD software in the Czech Republic.

Druhý ročník semináře Systémy pro zpřístupňování vysokoškolských kvalifikačních prací 2007, který uspořádala Odborná komise pro otázky elektronického zpřístupňování vysokoškolských kvalifikačních prací, se konal se pod záštitou Asociace knihoven vysokých škol ČR dne 16. 10. 2007. Organizace se ujala Ústřední knihovna VUT. Program semináře byl rozdělen do čtyř bloků: projekty, zkušenosti provozovatelů systémů, technologie a řešení dílčích technických úkolů. Nejprve byly představeny dva velké projekty: společný projekt sedmnácti vysokých škol „Národní registr VŠKP a systém na odhalování plagiátů́“ a projekt Státní technické knihovny „Národní úložiště šedé literatury“. Dále prezentovaly krátké vstupy o konkrétních zkušenostech zástupci Univerzity v Pardubicích, Univerzity Karlovy a Akademie múzických umění v Praze. Odpoledne byly představeny produkty na odhalování plagiátů firmy SEFIRA s.r.o a Mendelovy lesnické a zemědělské univerzity v Brně. Poté zazněly referáty a diskuze na téma převody dat do formátu PDF, technická metadata a identifikátory. Prezentace jsou vystavené na adrese http://www.evskp.cz/ v rubrice Dokumenty / Prezentace.

The article summarizes information concerning new project in the grey literature domain called „OpenSIGLE (database)“. The project is lead by the French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information experts in cooperation with other experts from former EAGLE member institutions. Both information, from published materials and online and free accessible database OpenSIGLE (still prototype but soon real full database version) are used in this article. Individual parts are devoted to reasons of former SIGLE system and the EAGLE association liquidation, to former MetaGrey Europe project, and mainly to OpenSIGLE database (software selection, metadata conversion and searching capabilities). Evaluative notes to current version of database prototype are added too.

The article sumarizes the results of the exploration on the Czech internet. During this exploration there were found Czech websites, which provide access to electronic technical and research reports. The author tried to find out the amount of these websites, the form of the electronic reports and the way of the access to these reports. The introduction contains basic information about technical and research reports, their form and the way of their registration. There is also described the method of the exploration on the internet, creation bibliography of Czech websites and the method of analysis of the report collections. The main part of the article presents the results of analysis of report collections on these choice websites: website of CESNET - Czech Education and Scientific NETwork, website of Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography (VUGTK), website of Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, and website of Radioctive Waste Repository Authority (SURAO). The special part of the article pays attention to the report collection of research in librarianship.
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