News - Czech National Library of Technology

14. 5. 2019●

Public technical and specialised libraries can get support for EIRs purchase starting 2020

The target group of CzechELib project was expanded to include “professional public”. This change gives the right to representatives of public technical and specialised libraries to draw financial support for the EIRs purchase from the CzechELib project. Read more.

28. 2. 2019●

Progress

All licence contracts for EIR access for the period of 2019-2022 signed

NTK has managed to sign contracts with all the EIR providers for the period of 2019-2022. Read more.

21. 1. 2019●

Events

ACS on Campus is coming to the Czech National Library of Technology

The American Chemical Society’s premier outreach program will present publishing tips, inform how to grow in peer review, and bring the latest news from SciFinder. Read more.

7. 12. 2018●

Resources

CzechELib negotiates activation of institutional login for its members

CzechELib team has recently approached the EIR provider with a request for activation of the institutional login Shibboleth via eduGAIN, which is used in EIR for authentication for remote access and personalisation. Read more.

27. 11. 2018●

Progress

All License Agreements for the period 2018 – 2022 signed

National Library of Technology managed to successfully finish all the negotiations of license conditions concerning EIRs for the period 2018 – 2022. Read more.

27. 11. 2018●

Events

Workshop on Tools for Bibliometric Analysis InCites and SciVal

CzechELib under the auspices of the Council of Higher Education Institutions and the Czech Rectors Conference organized a workshop on possibilities of use of top analytical tools for evaluation of publication activities InCities and SciVaI. Read more.

26. 11. 2018●

Resources

Taylor & Francis Publishing has offered free 100 e-book titles to the Consortium

Representatives of Taylor & Francis Publishing have apologized for the hold-up with the signing of the license contract and for confusion during negotiations, and as a goodwill gesture they have offered 100 e-book titles for Taylor & Francis consortium under CzechELib for free. Read more.

3. 9. 2018●

Events

Methodology of individual journals selection approved

The methodology adjusts the selection of individual journals, which commenced in 2018 and concerns itself with securing EIR for the term from the year 2019. Read more.

31. 8. 2018●

Resources

License Agreement with SUWECO closed

Agreement with SUWECO, exklusive representative of SAE International and American Chemical Society (ACS). Read more.

2. 7. 2018●

Progress

CzechELib is introducing its new director

As of July 1, Ing. Jiří Krňák took up his duties as a director of CzechELib. Jiří Krňák is an experienced manager. In past he has held key management positions in various companies such as Lego, Inter-Informatics, Howden or Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Among other agenda he dealt with public procurement proceses. Mr. Krňák graduated from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU in Prague. Read more.