The company

Albertina icome Praha s.r.o. started in January 1995 but our tradition dates back to 1991. Our customer base includes academical and university libraries, medical and other specialty libraries, government institutions, public libraries, corporate information centers etc.

Our customers

Today, our primary activities include:

Electronic information resources

Albertina icome Praha s.r.o. offers information online and on CD-ROM published by major publishers of the world to customers in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (via its daughter company in Bratislava). Our partners include Ovid Technologies, ProQuest, Thomson Dialog, IEE/INSPEC, Springer, Oxford University Press, OECD, Knovel, Bowker, GALE - Cengage Learning, K.G.Saur Verlag, H.W.Wilson Company and many others. Our current catalogue includes over 2100 professional titles and is published annually on CD-ROM and updated at our WWW site and a quarterly newsletter (in Czech language). Extensive customer support is provided including consulting, training, hotline etc.

Our partners (Czech section)

National and consortium licensing

Our company has pioneered the consortium licencing idea in the Czech Republic since 1997. Today, we are involved in numerous consortium projects in the Czech Republic, e.g.

• Literature Online national licence
• Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins e-journals consortium licence
• ProQuest 5000 International consortium licence
• Biological Abstracts & Zoological Record consortium licence
• COMPENDEX & INSPEC & ICONDA & METADEX consortium project
• CAB Abstracts consortium
• and others

Participants in these consortium and national projects are being provided by extensive support: specialized websites in Czech (e.g. www.proquest.cz, infozdroje.cz etc.), training and presentations, user manuals, brochures, specialized listservs etc.

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E-resources access management solutions

The NetMan solution by H+H Software GmbH makes it easier to manage and provide access to online resources, software packages and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM applications. NetMan provides a common interface integrating numerous optional components, such as:

• HAN (Hidden Access Navigator) designed to manage access to "for-fee" online information resources with access authentication based on userid/password and/or IP-address resolution. This product is also available as standalone.
• CD-ROM server based on the Virtual-CD technology - designed to provide access to information resources and multimedia by any publisher - at a local workstation, in a local network or accross WAN/Intranet/Internet
• Terminal Server Application Management by NetMan allows to manage and deploy Windows applications in a network environment using the Citrix MetaFrame solution or MetMan's internal functionality

E-resources integration, management and linking

We offer the following solutions are available to integrate electronic resources by various publishers:

• Federated searching - nab�z�me OVID SearchSolver by Ovid Technologies and Central Search by Serials Solutions
• OpenURL linking tools (also "link resolving/resolvers" or "OpenURL resolvers") - you can get OVID LinkSolver by Ovid Technologies, Ulrich's Resource Linker by Bowker and ArticleLinker by Serials Solutions
• E-resources portal - A.M.S. (Access & Management Suite) by Serials Solutions
• E- resource management - A.M.S. (Access & Management Suite) by Serials Solutions and Ulrich's Serials Analysis System (USAS) by ProQuest CSA
• Central MARC-records resource - Full MARC Records by Serials Solutions

Specialty events

One of our primary goals since the very start was raising awareness on electronic information resources in the Czech Republic and supporting their users. Therefore we started organizing many events: seminars, workshops, trainings, presentations etc.

Calendar of events (in Czech)

Started in 1995, our INFORUM Conference has grown into the most important event in the area of professional information resources in the Czech Republic. Organized in collaboration with the University of Economics in Prague the conference now attracts over 600 attendees.

www.inforum.cz