DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEM ON SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF MOLDOVA

Sibirsky V.1,Secrieru G.1, Bogatencov P.2, Kozlenco L.2, Altuhov A.2, Youngen G.3

1. Department of Informatics and Techniques for calculations, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Academiei str., 5, Chisinau, MD-2028, Moldova. Tel: (+3732) 739966, Fax: (+3732) 738646, E-mail: sibirskyv@hotmail.com 
2. Centre of Informatics Technologies, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Academiei str., 5, Chisinau, MD-2028, Moldova. Tel: (+3732) 738763, Fax: (+3732) 738646, E-mail: bogatencov@renam.md 
3. University of Illinois, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Il., 61801-3080 USA. Phone: 217//244-2096, Fax: 217//333-3207, E-mail: youngen@uiuc.edu 

The project aim is to provide instrumental support of the Academic journals and other periodic editions preparation in an electronic form and ensuring their availability for wide scale access through the Academy Intranet and external Internet. It is supposed to use CDS/ISIS as a software toolkit via Z39.50 data transfer protocol.
The urgency of the project consists in  development of ideas incorporated in the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (ASM) at the time of realization of systems of creation of bibliographic databases on ES - 1046. For the period of 5 years in ASM within 5 years " The General bibliographic catalogue of the Central Scientific library АНМ " system  have successfully functioned.
Total bases volume was about 250 thousand bibliographic cards.  During that time the sufficient experience was accumulated, the direct contacts to the libraries workers are adjusted, but at the moment this work is cut down and waits for the further continuation.
The project goals are:
1. Creation of technology of formation of databases containing the scientific - bibliographic information from many sources;
2. Creation of technology of preparation, accommodation and processing of users queries; 
3. Creation of a basis for organization of the center of network accumulation and exchange of the scientific - educational information;
4. Granting access to results of scientific  to both Moldovan and foreign researches.

The essence of the project consists in creation of a basic nucleus for granting of a various sort of information services, which will allow to accumulate the scientific - bibliographic information from many sources.
The applied part of the project, includes development of the software with binding it to concrete means and creation of independent WEB-Site on server of the Center of Information technologies of ASM.
Nowadays Moldovan team has already begun work on the project. The further development of the project is being carried out at the expense of financing of CRDF (Civilian Research and Development Foundation) - grant № 7365.