Development of a personal bibliographic information system
| Pages | 144-156 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/02640471311312348 |
| Date | 05 April 2013 |
| Published date | 05 April 2013 |
| Author | Iliya Bouyukliev,Tsvetanka Georgieva‐Trifonova |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
Development of a personal
bibliographic information system
Iliya Bouyukliev
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, and
Tsvetanka Georgieva-Trifonova
Department of Mathematics and Informatics, “St Cyril and St Methodius”
University of Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Abstract
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to propose the bibliographic information system “Personal
eLibrary bgMath”. This is a system for the organisation, storage and usage of digitalised literature. It
supports the user in organising his/her publications and his/her library of electronic issues. The
system is very convenient, especially for scientific literature.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology to design a database storing information
about publications and other literature is presented. The entity-relationship model of the database is
described. The relational tables, obtained after the transformation of the created ER model into a
relational model, are given. The paper contains the description of the forms implementing two basic
tasks of the presented program, i.e. input and search for publications. The database is implemented by
means of the database management system Microsoft Access 2007.
Findings – The system Personal eLibrary bgMath allows easy manipulation of materials (papers,
dissertations, reports, etc.) and references, which are used frequently and are very often necessary in
scientific activity such as research, writing papers and dissertations, preparing reports and web pages
or application documentation. The proposed program is free and a user guide is available.
Originality/value – This paper proposes a practical method for creating a bibliographic system for
scientific literature and explains its basic functional features.
Keywords Databases, Bibliographic informationsystems, Electronic library,Libraries,
Information systems
Paper type Case study
1. Introduction
The creation, distribution and usage of scientific literature nowadays are closely
connected with its digitalised form. This fact concerns periodical issues, as well as
conference proceedings and even monographs and reference books. The distribution
and publishing of materials on the internet expedites the development of a large
number of bibliographic systems integrated with search engines. Lists and the
comparative characteristics of such systems are presented in DELOS Working Group
2.1 (2001), Witten et al. (2000), and Wikipedia (2011). Undoubtedly, this heavy software
provides enormous possibilities. The point is how this software can be used easily for
solving the most frequently performed tasks related to digitalised science literature.
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This research is partially supported by the project “Bibliographic system for organising, storage
and usage of the digitalized scientific literature”, “St Cyril and St Methodius” University of
Veliko Tarnovo, No. RD 642-17/ 26.07.2010.
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31,2
144
Received 24 June 2011
Revised 14 August 2011
Accepted 30 August 2011
The Electronic Library
Vol. 31 No. 2, 2013
pp. 144-156
qEmerald Group Publishing Limited
0264-0473
DOI 10.1108/02640471311312348
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