Rola biblioteki uczelnianej w tworzeniu bazy informacyjnej szkoły wyższej

Abstract

The universities are subjects of the continuous evaluation, not only in terms of their educational offer and the quality of research, but also in the commercialization of new technologies and their industry transfer. The research output, in the form of scientific publishing, being accessed via institutional repositories, is also taken under consideration and the university e-learning courses are the essential, too. The results of these evaluations are presented in the form of various rankings – domestic and international. The most recognized and important are: the “Perspectives” produced by the Educational Foundation, the report of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. The assumption, that soon the obtained results from such evaluation of the universities, will have the much more crucial influence on the budget resources and their allocation from public money, becomes the reality. The supporting tool named POL-on for the financial decision-making processes among others, is recently under implementation by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The procedure of input data delivery to this system by universities has been recently legalized by the reviewed act on the science financing. Hence, in the current legal state, questions of the role of university library arise in terms of management the institutional repositories, bibliographic databases of the university scientific publications and research information systems. Additionally, in the paper, the analysis of openness and resources type in Polish repositories registered in Ranking Web of World repositories, will be performed.