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Michal Demeš Director Institute of Scientific and Technical Information for Agriculture (ISTIA) UVTIP Samova 9 950 10 Nitra Slovak Republic. Phone: 0042 7 515829 Fax: 0042 7 515829 e-mail: uvtip@uniag.sk ISTIA's initiation of the project for its Integrated Information System for Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information (IIS STEI) in the agricultural sector of Slovakia was outlined. Preparatory steps, funding sources, objectives, strategy, and actual progress were reported. IIS STEI will link all cooperating information centers and libraries in the sector, enabling the sharing and exchange of information, and, for users, access to the library holdings of all institutions. Prospectively, the IIS STEI database will be accessible via Internet. ISTIA is already a member of SANET (Slovak part of the Internet). The project is a cooperative initiative bringing together decision-makers who allocate funds, the software know-how of the CEIT private company developers, and expertise of librarians and documentalists of participating institutions. Funds allocated to the project brought to the cooperating institutes the financial means to buy computers. 
Blanka Bajankova ISTIA Bratislava Branch National AGRIS Center UVTIP AGRIS/FAO Drienova 3 821 02 Bratislava Slovak Republic Phone: 0042 7 239446 Fax: 0042 7 239446 e-mail: bajanko@cvt.stuba.sk Factors influencing the National AGRIS Center's work were outlined stressing restructuring at all levels and changes in the hierarchical information system of Slovakia. The AGRIS Center prepares approximately 700 records for the world database, 30 percent of them with English abstracts (world average is 21 percent). input is compiled on two 286,486 PCs, using AGRIN and AGCHEK Micro CDS/ISIS packages. Retrievals from AGRIS, AGRICOLA, CAB Abstracts, PEST BANK, AGRISEARCH, WLAS and other CD-ROM databases are provided. The Center recently initiated the FAO Publications Translation Project and obtained for ISTIA the status of FAO's partner in this project. Among the latest achievements of the Bratislava Branch are also obtaining a dial-up access to Internet and establishment of a National AGRIS inputting sub-centers network, including 2 national agricultural and forestry libraries, and 1 research institute library. Joining CARIS resulted in the establishment of the Slovakia CARIS net- work, and the training of inputters of all cooperating institutions. The Center provides extensive translating and interpreting services, as well as information consulting. The mission and services of ISTIA's Nitra FAO Depository Library were presented. ISTIA's Bratislava NOI-Publishers printing and publishing possibilities were also briefly outlined. |