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Description of Database
Creation of the Database
Participating Organisations - database creators

Description of Database


Subject coverage: engineering, technology, sciences and the environment

Contents of database: bibliographic details and abstracts from over 300 titles from:
  • selected scientific and popular periodicals,
  • scholarly journals edited by 22 co-operating institutions,
  • conference proceedings from the above sources.
Chronological coverage: 1998 - present

Types of records:
  • article description (bibliographic records): authors names, article title in Polish and/or in English, source, year of publication, document type, language, author affiliation and e-mail (if appears in a journal), authors keywords in Polish and/or in English (if appears in a journal), usually abstract in Polish and/or English. Some fields such as author names, source and e-mail to the author appear as links to another publication
  • journal description: journal name, publisher, address, ISSN, URL and e-mail, frequency, indexed years as links to bibliographic references of articles from given year, links to "Selected full texts" on the Web, and links to subscribers e.i. 21 co-operating libraries (full-text of articles indexed in BazTech can be ordered from this libraries)
Search options: Results:
  • after searching by specific terms using search form - a brief list of citations (author name and article title) that match a search; all titles are links to the full bibliographic records
  • after browsing the indexes - appropriate alphabetical list of journal titles or keywords which allow direct links to journal description with table of contents from given year or list of article titles with selected keyword.
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Creation of the Database

BazTech has been designed and developed by the Consortium of 22 Academic and Special Libraries since 1998. The Project is financed with fund awarded by the State Committee for Scientific Research and Ministry of National Education. The Main Library of the University of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz coordinates the Project. The database is hosted on the server at the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling of the Warsaw University (ICM UW) within the framework of the project "Virtual Scientific Library"

The first step in the process of designing the database was the selection of periodicals to be indexed and developing of instructions. A common list of journals subscribed by the cooperating libraries and also the rules for indexing have been prepared. Initially creating the records on base original journal in print has been decided. However, for some time now we receive a lot of information in electronic format from publishers.

There are following phases in the process of the database creation:
- indexing (creation of records) locally in 22 libraries by means of specially tailored program"Editor",
- transmission of records with FTP protocol for the technical coordinator in Bydgoszcz,
- integration and verification of records using specially adapted computer "Coordinator",
- online transmission of data for the ICM.

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Participating Organisations - database creators

The "Polish Technical Journal Contents" BazTech is created by 22 academic and special libraries of the following organizations:
  1. AGH University of Science and Technology
  2. Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology in Cracow
  3. Building Research Institute in Warsaw
  4. Bialystok Technical University
  5. Gdansk University of Technology
  6. Cracow University of Technology (Coordinator)
  7. Lublin University of Technology
  8. Technical University of Lodz
  9. Technical University of Opole
  10. Poznan University of Technology
  11. West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
  12. Silesian University of Technology
  13. Kielce University of Technology
  14. Warsaw University of Technology
  15. Wroclaw University of Technology
  16. Jagiellonian University - Institute of Computer Science
  17. Szczecin University
  18. University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz
  19. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
  20. University of Zielona Góra
  21. Military University of Technology in Warsaw
  22. Maritime University of Szczecin
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Database hosted by ICM UW. Web creators
Created: 28.01.1999. Last update: 27.03.2009