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1. The Information Processing
Centre in Warsaw (OPI)
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research & development institution, supervised by State Committee
for Scientific Research (KBN) - responsible, among others, for widening
knowledge on scientific and technical information about the condition
of
Polish science and Polish and foreign scientific research end results.
It places the following databases on-line:
2. Scientific Research - SYNABA (over 140,000 reports
on scientific, research, and developmental papers, PhD and doctorate
dissertations, and scientific expert papers done by scientific and
research & development institutions and universities, collected
since 1984, and since 1996. also in English).
3. PhD and Doctorate Dissertations (over 27,900
records including personal information concerning people who obtained a
PhD or doctor's degree and their dissertations, their alma maters,
reviewers and academic supervisors).
4. Research Institutions (over 6,200 descriptions of
scientific institutions and research & development centres, and
institutions supporting research, such as archives, museums and
libraries).
5. Polish Research Directory ('Research Institutions'
collection in English).
6. People of Science (over 65,000 records concerning
research workers, including approx. 9,000 professors, about 11,000
honoured doctors, and nearly 44,000 doctors; scientific disciplines and
specialties of these people are given in both Polish and English).
7. Decision-Making and Advisory Institutions in the Field
of Science (approx. 460 descriptions including information on
institutions and central government offices responsible for research
policy, scientists' corporations and advisory social bodies).
8. Social Scientific Movement (approx. 500
descriptions
of societies, scientific and scientific & professional
associations, and foundations operating in the field of science).
9. Institutions of Scientific and Technical Information in
Poland (over 9,500 records containing information on leading
libraries and centres for scientific and technical information).
10. Science Offer (over 1,150 descriptions of new
technologies, products and services offered by scientific, and research
& development centres).
11. National Citation Report for Poland - NCR (contains
over 114,000 entries about publications and citations from periodicals,
which form a resource database for the Institute for Scientific
Information in Philadelphia, USA; concerns articles whose at least one
of the authors is of Polish origin; covers data since 1981.).
12. Quality and Certification (collection of formal
information concerning problems of quality management and certification
in the Polish world of researchers and technicians).
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