Lecture: ORCID – a Unique Researchersć Identifier

Lecturer: Zorica Janković, librarian orcid.org/0000-0003-2643-4483

Time: Thursday 27th Aril 2017, 10.00

Venue: IBISS Library

Duration: 60 minutes

Lectures and workshops for researchers

The Librarians' Section of the Serbian Association of Institutes organizes a series of lectures and workshops for researchers. In selecting the subjects for this programme we are guided by our personal experience in working with researchers at the Institutes in which we work. Depending on researchers' interest, we plan to include new subjects. We encourage researchers to send us their suggestions at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Lecturers are librarians, regular and associated members of the Librarians' Section of the Serbian Association of Institutes. Lectures and workshops are organized in the premises of the host institute. The lecture/workshop can be scheduled by contacting the lecturer directly or by contacting the librarian of the host institute.

All the lectures/workshops are free of charge and can be organized in the same institute more than once, if necessary. The organizer needs to provide space, a computer with internet connection and a projector. Also, the organizer needs to send an official invitation letter addressed to the lecturer. The material from the lectures is in open access in the section Education at the web-site of the Librarians' Section of the Serbian Association of Institutes.

Lectures Programme (in Serbian).

Digital Repositories for Doctoral Dissertations

Lecturer: Dragana Stolić, Information Specialist at the Department for Scientific Information and Education, University Library "Svetozar Marković"

Time: Wednesday, March 18^th, 2015, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Duration: 45 minutes

About the lecture: In this presentation on digital doctoral dissertations, the lecturer will give an overview of national and international e-thesis portals. The lecturer will pay special attention to Open Access and copyrights protection. Finally, the lecturer will present current projects, i.e. active services of the University Library "Svetozar Marković" established on retrospective digitalization of doctoral dissertation.

• Digital repository of universities in Belgrade, Niš and Kragujevac and its subsystem "E-theses"

• Dissertations at the University of Novi Sad

• National portal for doctoral dissertations (DOI)

• Portal UviDok

• European and world portals: DART, NDLTD, OATD

• Open access to doctoral dissertations, copyrights protection, legal regulations

• Retrospective digitalisation of dissertations: digitalisation upon request, digitalisation of dissertations until 1941

• Predatory publishers

Reference Manager Systems

EndNote – citation manager: a simple way to bibliography

Lecturer: Aleksandra Popović, Head of the Department for Scientific Information and Education, University Library "Svetozar Marković"

Time: Wednesday, December 10^th, 2014, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Link to the presentation (in Serbian).

Reference Manager Systems

Mendeley – an application for reference organisation, the library of a researcher and academic social network

Lecturer: Zorica Janković, Librarian at the Institute for Biological research "Siniša Stanković"

Time: Wednesday, November 26^th, 2014, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Link to the presentation (in Serbian).

Reference Manager Systems

Zotero – non-commercial software for the organisation of bibliographic data bases and automatic formatting of references

Lecturer: Milica Ševkušić, Librarian at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Time: Tuesday, October 21^st, 2014, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Link to the presentation (in Serbian).

Reference Manager Systems – survey - results

With aim to improve the services of the IBISS Library, a survey was carried out with the title Reference Manager Systems. The purpose of this survey was to find out how researchers organize bibliographic references as part of their scientific work; whether they use any application for this and whether they need or want to learn about new applications and their performances. The response to the survey was significant, 20% of researchers at the Institute completed the questionnaire.

Link to the survey's results (in Serbian).