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Internet Library of Serbia for Arts and Humanities

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IBiS

Editor in Chief: Žarko Mijajlović

Internet Library of Serbia
for Arts and Humanities - IBiS

The Association of researchers of the institutes for humanities has launched an initiative for creating the Internet library of Serbia for arts and humanities IBiS. This project is realized in cooperation with the National center for digitization within the project for the Virtual library of the NCD, headed by Prof. Dr. Žarko Mijajlović.

The goal of the IBiS is to present the Serbian scientific and cultural legacy as well as present-day scientific production in the fields of humanities and related disciplines to a broad audience - to national and international professionals and scientists. Digitization of national scientific and cultural legacy and current scientific production is highly important not only for faciliating the access to these assets and for the international scientific exchange, but also for preservation of the cultural identity, education of the local public and thus ultimately contributing to the diversity of the European cultural map.

IBiS will present a digital collection with an open (free and immediate) access, organized so as to meet the international standards of European digital libraries. The goal of the IBiS is to create:
  1. Digital collection of scientific works (monographs and original articles) of prominent Serbian authors from the field of humanities and the like.
  2. Digital collections of the leading national scientific journals.
  3. Digital collections of old and rare books.
  4. Digital collections of manuscripts and archival documents.
  5. Digital collections of doctoral theses.
The Project for the IBiS in the capacity of founders/partekers, has so far been supported by:
  1. National center for digitization
  2. The Association of researchers of the institutes for humanities
  3. The Serbian language institute of SASA
  4. The Ethnographic institute of SASA
  5. The Institute of Archaeology
  6. The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA
  7. Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade
  8. Public library "Vladislav Petković Dis", Čačak
  9. Center for digital humanities

The NCD and the Association of researchers of the institutes for humanities are inviting other scientific and cultural institutions in Serbia to give their own contribution to the creation of this library in one of the following ways:
  1. By partaking in the activities of NDC as participants in the project for IBiS.
  2. By taking an active part in planning and defining the priorities of digitization of scientific and cultural legacy.
  3. Providing the NCD with agreements for digitization and digital presentation of their publications (scientific books and scientific journals), old and rare books and archival documents, housed in their libraries and archives (in compliance with the Law on author's rights and neighbouring rights and the Law on cultural assets).

The NCD and the Association of researchers of the institutes for humanities are non-profit organizations, therefore the services of digitization and creation of digital collections are complimentary. The two organizations will also provide access to the material digitized on the web sites of the institutions partakers in the project.