Software infrastructure - CRIS UNS and PHD UNS
CRIS UNS
CRIS UNS (Current Research Information System at University of Novi Sad) system is under development since the year 2008 and it is the main result of this project. It has been implemented with an intention to fulfill all specific requirements prescribed by rule books of the University of Novi Sad, Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia. In addition, the substantial requirement to be fulfilled by the system CRIS UNS is its interoperability with systems possessing large databases of scientific research results, thus improving the visibility of the scientific results achieved by researchers from University of Novi Sad and therefore raising the rating of the University.
Informational requirements imposed to this system are:
- Access to the application via an arbitrary modern web browser.
- Researchers entering their references by themselves without the need to be at home on any standard for references describing.
- Interoperability of our system with diverse systems containing scientific content such as CRIS systems, institutional repositories, library information systems, digital repositories, etc.
- Capability to search the database containing scientific results.
- Capability to perform evaluation of scientific research results following the rule book(s) prescribed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia.
- Reporting for the faculties, University, Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia.
PHD UNS
PHD UNS is digital library of dissertations defended at the University of Novi Sad since its foundation. It has been developing since 2010 at University of Novi Sad, Serbia. The first version was put into operation in 2013. The digital library of dissertations is a web application implemented using Java platform and set of open-source libraries written in Java. Data about dissertations are stored in MARC 21 format. Architecture of the digital library enables an easy integration with library information system as well as easy integration with research information system based on CERIF standard.