Conference Partners

Albertina icome Praha Company (est. in 1991) has maintained a position of one of the leading distributors of electronic information resources (professional journals and books, patents, trademarks, news, marketing research, reports, company and industry summaries, encyclopedias etc.) in science, technology, medicine and business in the Czech Republic.

AiP’s portfolio encompasses 2,100 titles accessible online in order to meet specific needs of its customers – universities, Academy of Sciences, hospitals, government agencies, public libraries as well as private corporations. AiP deals products of 50 world’s top publishers and aggregators (including Wolters Kluwer, ProQuest, OUP, Wiley, OECD and Knovel).

AiP‘s daughter company, Albertina icome Bratislava, represents its business interests in electronic information resources marketplace in the Slovak Republic.

ITlib. Information Technologies and libraries is scientific journal focused in issues of efficient use of modern information technologies for acquisition, processing, retenting and disclosure of documents. The journal is interested in current topics for library and information science, librarianship and situation in libraries and memory institutions.

Periodicity: 4× year – March, June, September, December. Published in the printed and electronic version. Articles are peer-reviewed.

Knihovna – a review for librarians – brings theoretical studies from the domain of libraries, informs about successful projects of Czech and foreign libraries and about the active participation of the National Library of the Czech Republic in various Czech and international projects.

Since 2005 it is published twice a year in printed format and e-journal. Since 2008 the main articles are subject to independent review proceedings.

The periodical offers a forum for professional activities consisting in theoretical research focusing upon concrete outputs that are utilizable in the practice.

Thanks to the licence contract with EBSCO since 2009 the tables of contents of the journal have been excerpted to the international databases of LISA. Since 2015 the periodical Knihovna: knihovnická revue is included in the prestigious scientific journal databases The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).

Knihovna is complemented by the electronic periodical Knihovna plus with the same periodicity (2 annual issues), intended for flexible information of the professional public about topical news and trends in our field. Typically it reports about conferences, seminars and other events for librarians.

Online Searcher: Information Discovery, Technology, Strategies is the definitive voice for information professionals in academic, corporate, government, law, medical, public library, knowledge management, web development, and freelance environments. On the web at infotoday.com/on­linesearcher, Online Searcher is also available through major full text bibliographic databases.

We invite INFORUM 2018 attendees to subscribe to Online Searcher and to consider writing for the publication. Contact the editor-in-chief, Marydee Ojala for more information.

Cambridge University Press is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, its purpose is to further the University's ob­jective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and research.

Its extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprise 45,000 print titles covering academic research, over 35,000 ebook titles and more than 390 research journals in a wide range of subject areas.

Playing a leading role in today’s inter­national market place, Cambridge University Press has over 50 offices around the globe, and it distributes its products to nearly every country in the world. For further information, go to: www.cambridge.org.

IOP Publishing’s cross-disciplinary portfolio of ebooks and 70+ research journals offers vital research across the physical sciences and related subjects areas, in partnership with some of the most renowned institutes in the world.

More than 700,000 articles can be accessed on IOPscience, IOP Publishing’s e­lectronic platform and all journal content is semantically enriched to ensure an easier, faster and more fruitful discovery process.

For more information, visit ioppublishing­.org.

Wolters Kluwer provides information and services for healthcare professionals to help them make important decisions on patient care, outcomes, and medical discoveries.

Clinicians rely on our market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions throughout their professional careers from training to research to practice. For medical research, Ovid® brings together in one convenient solution, the world’s premium, peer-reviewed journals, books, databases, productivity resources and tools.

The Ovid medical research platform is used by healthcare practitioners, librarians, researchers, and students to help inform decisions on patient care, support research to improve practice, and explore new discoveries. Ovid delivers a comprehensive portfolio of the world’s premium peer-reviewed clinical, medical, nursing and allied health content.

AiP Beroun, a daughter company of Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., is active in the sphere of digitization and providing access to information on-line. AiP Beroun collaborates with many Czech and European memory institutions. Its own digitization studio is specialized on the non-contact digitization of scarce manuscripts, rare prints, paintings, posters, maps.

AiP Beroun develops and operates Manuscriptorium digital library, an information source which is agregated by Europeana, and companies such as EBSCO, Summon and others.

One of important activities of AiP Beroun is participation in EU projects. Significant has been the technical management of the European aggregating project, ENRICH. Currently it is technical coordination of ETNOFOLK project.

AiP Beroun also provides its partners with a solution for presentation of their data (not necessary results of digitization projects) – GULLIVER.

Online library BOOKPORT is a new modern service by Grada Publishing. The subscription-based platform provides unlimited access to thousands of e-books in Czech language from many prominent Czech publishers. BOOKPORT offers literature for professionals as well as self-help or fiction literature. The database is continuously expanding.

BOOKPORT provides both online and offline reading access. The service provides full-text search across the whole catalog and many more advanced functionalities.

A free trial access is available for all participants of the Inforum 2018 conference.

Cosmotron was founded in 1992. The company is specialized in development of information systems. Dynamics and growth of the company was in 2008 attested by quality certificate according to ISO 9001.

Major product is the software Advanced Rapid Library (ARL). ARL is determined for automation and administration of libraries, museums, galleries, archives and information centers. Another domain includes identification systems – bar codes and RFID technology – for library use. Also advisory and analytical services, installation, inplementation, permanent support and next development guarantee are provided. Organizations of various orientation and dimension are the company clients.

The part of the services involves products for the protection of library fund and additional bar code services.

Suweco is one of the biggest suppliers of scientific information sources of all kinds and forms, such as printed books, series, electronic information sources etc. in Central Europe. We supply them to individual institutions or to groups of institutions. We manage and administrate the biggest Czech and Slovak consortiums for access to top scientific information sources.

We help to cover and make accessible the information infrastructure of science and research by key scientific information sources.

AIP Publishing is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

AIP Publishing’s mis­sion is to support the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of AIP through scholarly publishing activities in the fields of the physical and related sciences on its own behalf, on behalf of Member Societies of AIP, and on behalf of other publishing partners to help them proactively advance their missions.

AIP Publishing’s por­tfolio comprises 20 highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals, including the flagship journals Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics, in addition to the AIP Conference Proceedings.

Alexander Street pairs exclusive content with the latest technology to deliver customizable products and services to libraries and their patrons worldwide.

We blend video, audio, and text with cutting-edge online tools to transform the way people research, learn, and teach in virtually every discipline.

BioOne is a nonprofit publisher that aims to make scientific research more accessible through a growing portfolio of products and services, including its full-text database BioOne Complete.

BioOne Complete, BioOne’s flagship product, is a full-text database of over 200 titles from more than 150 publishers focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne Complete provides libraries with cost-effective access to high-quality, curated research and independent society publishers with a dynamic, community-based platform and global distribution.

BMJ advances healthcare worldwide by sharing knowledge and expertise to improve experiences and outcomes. We publish one of the world’s most cited general medical journals, The BMJ, alongside 60 indexed specialty journals.

We also produce e-learning modules, events and clinical decision support tools that help healthcare professionals improve the quality of healthcare delivery.

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Education, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER) Singapore (SG) and Beijing (CN), Brill today publishes over 270 journals and close to 1,400 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV.

CABI is a leading not for profit publisher, with over 100 years of experience in scientific information provision. We create, collect, commission, organize, interpret, synthesize and customize knowledge for the scientific community.

Our team of subject experts keep up-to-date on the latest research and discovery within the applied life sciences and ensure the most important and relevant information is included in our high value scholarly databases, compendia, and books, including the world renowned CAB Abstracts and Global Health databases.

The Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) is the leading cloud based repository offering a comprehensive collection of full text indexed documents in the fields of humanities and social science publications from and about Central, East and Southeast Europe. CEEOL covers 1,800+ key peer-reviewed and independent Humanities journal titles from 34 countries, that are published in more than 30 languages. Significant number of the included journals are represented with complete archival collection.

The CEEOL eBook collection offers an ever-growing number of eBooks, as well current year publications as backlists of the publishing houses.

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for higher education. Offering SaaS solutions for the management and discovery of the full spectrum of library and scholarly materials, as well as mobile campus solutions driving student engagement and success, Ex Libris serves thousands of customers in 90 countries.

For more information about Ex Libris, see our website, and join us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Gale, a Cengage company, provides libraries with original and curated content as well as modern research tools that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 60 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights.

For more information please visit www.gale.com/uk

IOP Publishing’s cross-disciplinary portfolio of ebooks and 70+ research journals offers vital research across the physical sciences and related subjects areas, in partnership with some of the most renowned institutes in the world.

More than 700,000 articles can be accessed on IOPscience, IOP Publishing’s e­lectronic platform and all journal content is semantically enriched to ensure an easier, faster and more fruitful discovery process.

For more information, visit ioppublishing­.org.

JoVE is the leading producer and publisher of video resources with the mission to increase the productivity of research and education in science, medicine, and engineering. Established in 2006, JoVE has produced over 7,500 video articles demonstrating experiments filmed in laboratories at top research institutions and delivered online to millions of scientists, educators, and students worldwide.

Today, JoVE subscribers include more than 1,000 universities, colleges, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies, including leading institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo, and Tsinghua University. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, JoVE maintains offices in the United States, Europe, India, and Australia. Please visit www.jove.com to learn more.

The first of its kind, JoVE’s mission is to advance science, medicine, and engineering by increasing productivity, reproducibility, and knowledge transfer in research and education.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems.

The mission of the OECD is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The common thread of OECD work is a shared commitment to market economies backed by democratic institutions and focused on the wellbeing of all citizens.

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's ob­jective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

In addition to publishing over 6,000 titles a year worldwide, Oxford University Press produces online editions of many of its most acclaimed scholarly and reference works including academic and research journals, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, general reference material, and monographs in a wide range of subject areas.

ProQuest is a global provider of digital content and technologies for academic, government, corporate, school and public libraries. We curate content, simplify workflows and connect people and organizations throughout the information community. Key to serious research, the company’s products are a gateway to the world’s knowledge including dissertations, governmental and cultural archives, news, historical collections, and ebooks. ProQuest technologies serve users across the critical points in research, helping them discover, access, share, create, and manage information.

The company’s cloud-based technologies offer flexible solutions for librarians, students, and researchers through the ProQuest®, Bowker®, Coutts® information services, Dialog®, ExLibris®, ebrary®, EBL™, Alexander Street® and SIPX® businesses – and notable research tools such as the RefWorks citation and document management and the Pivot research development tool.

The Royal Society is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has played a part in some of the most significant and life-changing discoveries in scientific history.

Philosophical Transactions, launched in 1665, established the fundamental principles of scientific priority and peer review. The Royal Society continues to publish high quality, engaging, peer reviewed journals covering the whole of science.

We publish ten leading journals, including two Open Access journals, and have recently redigitised our archive dating back to 1665. Visit our stand to find out more.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is the world’s leading chemistry community, advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. With over 54,000 members and a knowledge business that spans the globe, we are the UK’s professional body for chemical scientists; a not-for-profit organisation with 175 years of history and an international vision for the future. We promote, support and celebrate chemistry. We work to shape the future of the chemical sciences – for the benefit of science and humanity.

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s in­ternational publishing arm offers an exceptional range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, databases and publishing services to the chemical sciences community.

Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community.

SAGE publishes more than 1,000 journals and over 800 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne.

Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading research, educational and professional publishers, providing quality content to the community through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people – helping students to learn, researchers and scientists to discover and professionals to achieve their goals and ambitions.

Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science and Technology, and Medicine. Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 2,400 journals and over 5,500 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 77,000 specialist titles.

Thieme Publishing Group is a privately held, German medical and scientific publishing company. For over 125 years, Thieme's high quality books and journals have been a vital resource for scientists, physicians, researchers and academics.

Thieme publishes more than 130 peer-reviewed journals and over 500 new books per year. The Thieme resources are also available online and offer valuable information in eJournals, eBooks and chemistry resources like Science of Synthesis and Pharmaceutical Substances.

A trial access is available for all products in order to demonstrate the contents and functionality.

Wiley Wiley, a global research and learning company, helps people and organizations develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Our online scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, combined with our digital learning, assessment and certification solutions help universities, learned societies, businesses, governments and individuals increase the academic and professional impact of their work.

Wolters Kluwer provides information and services for healthcare professionals to help them make important decisions on patient care, outcomes, and medical discoveries.

Clinicians rely on our market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions throughout their professional careers from training to research to practice. For medical research, Ovid® brings together in one convenient solution, the world’s premium, peer-reviewed journals, books, databases, productivity resources and tools.

The Ovid medical research platform is used by healthcare practitioners, librarians, researchers, and students to help inform decisions on patient care, support research to improve practice, and explore new discoveries. Ovid delivers a comprehensive portfolio of the world’s premium peer-reviewed clinical, medical, nursing and allied health content.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.

Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 435,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

AiP Safe s.r.o., a sister company of AiP, is engaged in designing and supplying systems solutions for document management (DMS), content management (ECM), workflow, long-term preservation (LTP) and trusted document storage (TDS). AiP Safe uses its own framework SAFE. AiP Safe creates custom solutions, and provides related services.

SAFE LTP system together with Digitization workflow and Sken metadata editor creates the core module of the National Digital Library (NDK). In the competition „The Best 2014 – MasterCard“ the project was evaluated as the best in the category of „Central projects“ and was awarded as The Project of the Year.

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science, and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, more than 35,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray’s Anatomy.

The National Museum is the largest museum in the Czech Republic. As the central state museum with collecting, scientific, educational and methodological functions it seeks to enhance the sense of national identity and awareness of being part of the whole framework of European and world community and culture.

It is a polythematic institution, which comprises a large number of scientific disciplines and areas of collecting ranging from natural sciences to specialised fields of social sciences.

The National Library of Technology (NTK) is the largest and the oldest library of science and technology literature in the Czech Republic, with a collection of over 1.5 million volumes. Its primary function is to provide specialized information resources and services to students, teachers, and researchers in the fields of engineering and applied sciences, as well as to educate members of the general public interested in technical information.

The University of Economics, Prague (Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze) is the leading university in the field of management and economics in the Czech Republic.

The University of Economics, Prague has six faculties – five in Prague and one in Jindřichův Hradec in South Bohemia. These include: the Faculty of Finance and Accounting, the Faculty of International Relations, the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Statistics and Informatics and the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration. The faculty based in Jindřichův Hradec is specialized in management.