Abstract
Open access to the documents is one of the basic requirements of databases users. Czech Geographical Bibliography On-line provides access to 185,000 bibliographical records of Bohemical geographic and cartographic documents and to more than 30,000 full texts and objects. The access is provided through a connection from the permanent storage, the Digital University Repository or a URL address of the bibliographical record. The works in public domain can directly become accessible or it is necessary to conclude licence agreement with authors, their heirs or with the editors of periodicals. Full texts of 14 titles of professional periodicals, university thesis, employees´ monographs or anthologies and on-line publications are available. Digitised maps have been connected to the database since 2012. 5,500 of them are accessible from the database since the beginning of 2014. The database is an important source both for professionals and general public interested in geography and cartography.
Highlights
Providing access to full texts and objects is nowadays one of the regular requirements of the information service users
Bibliographic database Czech Geographical Bibliography On-line[1] that has been produced since 2008 primarily by the Geographical library of the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague (NOVOTNÁ, 2011) in cooperation with other libraries headed by the National Library of the Czech Republic allows to generate metadata and subsequently to make accessible full texts of geographic and cartographic expert articles, monographs, chapters of books and anthologies, and maps and graphics (NOVOTNÁ, 2013)
The accessibility depends on many factors: copyright laws, financing the production of bibliography of articles, creating metadata, preparation and editing of full texts and pictures, 1 http://www.geobibline.cz
Summary
Providing access to full texts and objects is nowadays one of the regular requirements of the information service users. Bibliographic database Czech Geographical Bibliography On-line[1] (hereafter GEOBIBLINE) that has been produced since 2008 primarily by the Geographical library of the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague (NOVOTNÁ, 2011) in cooperation with other libraries headed by the National Library of the Czech Republic allows to generate metadata and subsequently to make accessible full texts of geographic and cartographic expert articles, monographs, chapters of books and anthologies, and maps and graphics (NOVOTNÁ, 2013). The accessibility depends on many factors: copyright laws, financing the production of bibliography of articles, creating metadata, preparation and editing of full texts and pictures,. Thanks to the Czech Ministry of Culture TEMAP2 project (technologies for making the map collections accessible) there are professionally catalogued and made accessible primarily digitised cartographic documents and graphics and full texts of the articles. The access to data is carried out through a database where the full texts and pictures are attached as external links
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