1. Virtual Library of Science at ICM Paweł Grochowski and Marek Niezgódka ICM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling) Warsaw University http://vls.icm.edu.pl

2. an interdisciplinary research unit of Warsaw University created in 1993 research in modelling of biomolecular, biomedical, solid state, atmospheric and decision systems host for information infrastructure (supercomputers, servers and software) offered countrywide Virtual Library of Sciences About ICM:

3. a countrywide repository of knowledge resources includes leading international scientific databases and electronic journal collections, as well as Polish content most resources installed „on-site”, on the local servers hosted by ICM access for the consortia of academic institutions sharing costs of the licenses financial support from the Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology Virtual Library of Science:

4. Abstract databases: Math, Inspec, Medline, Science Citation Index, Scopus (on-line) Chemical databases: Beilstein, Gmelin, PDB Full text journal collections: OBC archives, Elsevier (1500+), Springer(400+), Kluwer(600+), EMIS, ACS to be added in 2006: APS, AIP, Emerald, IEEE (on-line & local archive) International content:

5. Licenses for electronic journals: access to complete publishers’ collection back to 1995 (Elsevier, Springer, Kluwer) or back to 1st volume perpetual archive rights to full collections (Springer, Kluwer) or to subscribed journals (Elsevier, ACS etc) current content offered on-line only (ACS etc) will be stored at ICM upon reaching archival status after each subscription period e-only pricing (ca 110% of former print) and DDP option for print

6. Consortia (selected numbers): Elsevier: 70 members (59 universities, 10 R&D institutes, PAS); over 50’000 full texts downloaded weekly Springer & Kluwer: 50 members (inc. PAS) SCI-Ex, Inspec: 22 members (inc. PAS)

7. Polish content XX-century archive of the Polish School of Mathematics (journals and book series currently published by the Institute of Mathematics PAS) several Polish biomedical journals indexed in SCI abstract databases PSJC (PAS), BAZTECH (ATR)

8. duplicated server: Sunfire 880 (12GB) + Sunfire 440 (8GB) duplicated storage: 2 x 5 TB of used volume additional Sunfire 440 (16GB) server for developing Polish platform Hardware:

9. CrossFire OvidNET Silverlink WebSPRIS Web of Science Science Server Polish platform (under development) Software:

10. unified archive, index and search engine, and user interface for Polish and international content, including full text journals, e-books, and abstract databases standard browse, search, linking, alerting features enhanced with similarity analysis and multilateral exploration of the past usage open source technology Polish platform:

11. application platform: J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) utilised frameworks and tools: Spring, Hibernate relational database system (metadata management): PostgreSQL Indexing and search engine: Lucene User interface: JSP/JSF/Struts Tiles... there is also support for a few other popular acronyms and buzzwords... Technology for the Polish platform:

12. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH protocol) BWMETA – a flexible metadata standard comprising the Dublin Core standard supports OpenURL standard for resource localization Linking to external resources through CrossRef service Metadata and linking standards