1. Polish knowledge repositories system: directions of development M. Niezgódka ICM, University of Warsaw marekn@icm.edu.pl

2. 2 BWN System (Virtual Library of Science): Key component of Polish research infrastructure A kind of national virtual campus, with academic/ research institutions as nodes Details: http://vls.icm.edu.pl/ beginning of national initiative within academic community Reference set-up: de facto standards, interoperable solutions – beginning of national initiative within academic community

3. 3 BWN: contents Licensed bibliographic bases, indexes: – Sci-Ex, Scopus, Inspec, MATH, Beilstein, … Collections (Full-text) of leading publishers: – Elsevier, Springer, ACS, APS, IEEE, … Polish science repository, incl. full-text collections and bibliographies: – e-Journals, Mathematical Repository, PSJC, Baztech, … Data repositories: – bioinfo, atmospheric, … Multimedia repositories: – ATVN

4. 4 Integrated IT platform DIR for distributed system of repositories developed at ICM Functionality: Integrated metadata and search Multi-level proximity analysis Secure access: control and enabling Accounting mechanisms Multi-level monitoring Scalability, feasibility of distributed set-up

5. 5 DIR: grid environment integrating knowledge resources with on-demand computing and data processing applications Rozwój systemu i jego platformy informatycznej jest realizowany w trybie prowadz ą cym do transformacji modelu komunikowania naukowego. Publikacja jest w nim traktowana nie jako pojedynczy akt, ale jako zapocz ą tkowanie procesu rozwojowego.

6. 6 Evaluation, forecasts Strong growth of public domain resources Initiation of deep transformation in scientific communication and publishing system: – Publication: a begin of dynamical process rather than single event, author becoming his/her own publisher, quality assurance through transparency