„Dialog Consortium“ – online access to essential bibliographic databases for technical universities

The „Dialog Consortium“ was created as a result of the project supported with financial subvention of The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Czech Republic. Its program LI – „Information sources for research and development“ funding aims to provide end users with an online access to most important information sources. The members of participating Czech technical universities have now a possibility to use valuable commercial bibliographic databases – Compendex, Iconda, Inspec and Metadex – via easy-to-use Dialog Corporation services. The paper describes „Dialog Consortium“ participants’ experience concerning the group license agreement, administrative and technical support of services, end users training, usage statistics and evaluation.

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Head of the Department of libraries of the Computer and Information Centre of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Author and participant of several research and development projects dealing with library automation, electronic information dissemination and use, information literacy etc. Member of several library committees, i. e. chair of the Higher Education Council Working Committee for University Libraries, chear of the Preparing Committee of the Association of Czech University (Academic?) Libraries, programme and organisation guarantee of the seminar „Automation of Library Processes“, etc.