Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)

The advent and development of World‐ Wide Web enabled new concepts of traditional library services. The Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia1 already in 1994 implemented new technology and modernized the method of collecting data about projects and published papers in Croatia. The idea of Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) emerged in 1996, and the database was released in 1997., with main goal to provide information about scientific output in Croatia with emphases on projects financed by Ministry of Science and Education. Scientists are those that provide the input data while library professionals monitor the data and maintain the database. CROSBI is not merely the bibliography it is also used as tool that creates links to the personal or institutional bibliography, enables creation of different reports to Ministry of Science and Education. Interoperability with other databases like repositories is possible, and the CROSBI itself can be used as repository as well. Authentication is enabled through unique user identifier for Croatian academic community AAI@EduHr. From 2014 onward other projects, besides the projects financed by Ministry of Science and Education are included into database. Apart from bibliographic records CROSBI 1 Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia until 2003, Ministry of Science Education and Sport from 2003-2016, Ministry of Science and Education from 15.10. 2016. Proceedings of the 17th EURASLIC Biennial Conference Bremen, Germany, 8-10 May 2017 24 incorporate bibliometric and altmetric indicators, allows full text deposition therefore could be considered as one of first Croatian repositories. Today CROSBI provides a comprehensive overview to more than 500.000 records about the literature produced by Croatian scientists: journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, theses, reports, manuscripts, etc. Over the years there has been several technical improvements, but the major one coincides with CROSBI's 20th anniversary in 2017 when new interface has been released