Building Balkan Studies: Multidisciplinary Resources  Tags: slavic  

This is a very interesting and useful database system for the social sciences.  First used by the Slovenians, it is a central repository for information on scholars and their research interests.  Links to each of the national systems are available at COBISS.net

At its best, it will provide information on a particular researcher, their current scholarly interests and research projects and compile  a bibliography of their writings. What is shown on the left is an entry on a researcher from one of the CRIS systems.  Many of these catalogs are still under development.  It is difficulty to get anything other than contact information and affiliation from the systems available at present for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro.  Kosovo and Albania are also still under development.  For the two that are well developed, Slovenia and Serbia this is an excellent source for finding a compiled bibliographer on a scholar. 

The user should be aware however, that what you are getting in most cases is a bibliography that is drawn off the national library catalog.  It is certainly possible to run a search on an author's name and get a list of his/her publications.  Still this is an interesting approach to providing bibliographic materials for researchers.