Art. 1: Proquest CSA. Sponsor presentation.

ProQuest CSA, part of Cambridge Information Group, was formed in 2007 through the merger of two leading and historic information technology firms: ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts).

ProQuest CSA provides seamless access to, and navigation of, more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts and literature to science, technology and medicine. ProQuest CSA's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive, periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 publishers and spanning more than 500 years, the preeminent dissertation collection and various other scholarly collections.

Users access the information through the ProQuest Web-based online information system, CSA Illumina, Chadwyck-Healey electronic and microform resources, UMI microform and print reference products, eLibrary, SIRS, Ulrich's Serials Analysis System, COS Scholar Universe, and Serials Solutions resource management resources. Through the expertise of its business units, Serials Solutions and COS, ProQuest CSA provides technological tools that allow researchers and libraries to better manage and use their information resources.

CSA Illumina is designed to provide a simple, more user-friendly approach to searching for novice users while maintaining powerful options for users who require them. The interface provides access to more than 100 databases published by CSA and its publishing partners in four main subject areas:

• Arts & Humanities
• Natural Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Technology

CSA Illustrata is the most important and innovative indexing advancement in over 30 years, CSA Illustrata provides web-based access to indexed tables, figures, maps, graphs, charts and other images contained in scholarly articles. This unique tool provides researchers precision, efficiency, and relevance in the data discovery process. Users can display the full image, including captions and label text - all of which can be easily saved or imported and used for presentations, lectures or research. The first database in the family, CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences, includes tables and figures from more than 1,000 journals from prominent publishers resulting in more than 1 million indexed images.

For the research professional CSA also offers the Research Package, consisting of Papers Invited, COS Funding and Scholars.

Papers Invited

Publishing opportunities for research papers!

• Publish - an invaluable aid for faculty, students, and researchers to find opportunities to present and publish their work
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• Never again miss a deadline for submission of abstracts

Scholars

Keyword access to the community behind the content!

• Easy-to-Access - click on the Scholar Tab from within CSA Illumina or the Scholar Icon from results list
• Access to a unique resource of verified scholar and programme information
• Increased awareness of relevant authors based upon areas of interest and similar areas of research across traditional disciplinary boundaries
• Broadened relevant content exposure from primary authors through verified co-author links
• Scholar profiles include: author affiliation, co-authors, publications, link to CV, personal Web site, interests and ability to contact the scholars via e-mail
• Scholarly organisation profiles include: contact information, organisation homepage, member lists

COS Funding Opportunities

• Daily Updates - contains more than 23,000 records offering more than US$33 billion in available funding
• Unlimited access for all your researchers together with an individual COS Funding Alert - 5 separate searches delivered weekly in a single e-mail
• Customise and target searches with pre-set defaults
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Art. 2: Henryk Hollender,
Show me a fresh new journal: for the future of scientific journals.

The scientific journals of the future include a wide range of currently known types of publications. Despite the obvious expansion of open access journals, there is not a single journal of this type that can clearly dominate. Surely, we will see new patterns of financing research, which may attract the top authors to publish their work in the most commercial titles thus ensuring their success. The publication of journals can also be transferred to other countries, although the overall number of journals is most likely going to decline. This tendency will develop upon the recognition that the practice only requires a minimal contribution of science and that it can exist without the traditional scientific periodicals. It may also result from the shifting of scientific discourse towards independent writing and publishing, such as blogging. The question about the future of journals is a question about the rules of their circulation within the society, as well as, the methods used in searching through them. Without these it would be impossible to maintain any type of organisation in scientific communication. Will science established on sampling still remain a science? Will the new culture of volatile, quasi-oral publication, sure to emerge in the new electronic future, produce some type of equivalent to the traditional scientific publications? Perhaps there will be an acute need to restore the rhythm of discourse leading to a rediscovery of periodical publications?

Art. 3: Ewa Dobrogowska-Schlebusch,
The evaluation of the quality of medical information on the Internet as a task for libraries

The article presents the criteria for quality evaluation of medical information available on the Internet and describes the problems encountered by a typical user of health services searching for information on health. The author talks about her study of Polish web services devoted to selected social diseases. She answers the question of whether an active role of the library is advisable in searching valuable medical information on the Internet.

Art. 4: Małgorzata Tarka,
Public relations in the library.

The article discusses public relations issues in a non-profit institution, such as a library. It presents some definitions of public relations, as well as, its place in marketing. Furthermore, it talks about the PR tools and methods that can be applied in the promotion of library services.

Art. 5: Magdalena Karciarz,
E-resources research.

An attempt to describe research methods of the electronic sources such as e-magazines, data bases, e-books and websites based on research done in Polish and library and information science research centers.

Art. 6: Danuta Dudziak, Urszula Anna Wojtasik,
Is it difficult to buy the foreign electronic books collection?

In the year 2006 academic libraries in Poland have received a great number of offers of the foreign electronic books collections. It has been observed that the number of offers was incomparable bigger than in previous years. The article describes the most important offers which where presented to the Main Library Wrocław University of Technology in the last year. Important features of offers such as: product describing, buying models, collections subject, terms of access, price and others have been presented. The attempt to define the evaluation criteria of the electronic collections such as: collection content, users opinions after the trial period and price has been given. Also the factors which help and those which make evaluation difficult have been pointed.

Art. 7: Sebastian Dawid Kotuła
How the quality of open content bases is built - the Wikipedia example

The article discussed quality of the open content bases on the Wikipedia example. Still many casual people and permanent users also complaint about quality of Wikipedia's articles. So the paper shows how quality is being built i.e. thousands of users all the time on every hour are checking and correcting substantially and stylitycznie articles of The Free Encyclopedia. Inspite of it the main structure of the Wikipedia thoroughly is thought over. The edition of articles closely is determined. In such conditions there is no possible for more mistakes than in printed encyclopedias. In the paper I also present my point of view. It goes like this: it is better to write one article in the Wikipedia, which is one of the bigest web 2.0 projects, than to write the satire, which can make worse image of the Free Encyclopedia at all and other similiar projects.