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Professionally produced indexing as well as sup porting journals by other bibliographical services is closely related to information linking and discovery, dissemination of knowledge and access. Newly founded open-access scholarly journals are usually not aware of the benefits of these opportunities. Furthermore, one can be puzzled by the dubious indexing enterprises popping up that provide misleading metrics. This paper wishes to contribute to a more conscious information management of journals that takes into consideration bibliographic and indexing facilities. It reviews the development of quality criteria and linking indicators as well as the recent practices in recording quality parameters and quantifying the indexing of humanities and social sciences journals in bibliographic databases. Comparisons are made between several, by Hungarians less known but significant metaindexes that comprise valuable information on academic values. The following secondary reference sources are discussed among others: Latindex, DIALNET, MIAR, DOAJ, ERIH Plus and the Hungarian journal portal maintained by the Database of Hungarian Scientific Works (Magyar Tudományos Művek Tára, MTMT). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to point out emerging roles and responsibilities for academic librarians with the potential of better integrating the library in the research process. In order to find out how to enhance the online reputation and discoverability of individual faculty members as well as their affiliated institutions, the authors worked side-by-side with researchers in the United States and Europe to explore, create, revise, and disambiguate scholarly profiles in various software applications. In an attempt to understand and organize scholarly social media, including new, alternative metrics, the authors reviewed and classified the major academic profile platforms, highlighting the overlapping elements, benefits, and drawbacks inherent in each. The consensus is that it would be time-consuming to keep one's profile current and accurate on all of these platforms, given the plethora of underlying problems, also discussed in detail in the article. However, it came as a startling discovery that reluctance to engage with scholarly social media may cause a misrepresentation of a researcher's academic achievements and may come with unforeseen consequences. The authors claim that current skills and competencies can secure an essential role for academic librarians in the research workflow by means of monitoring and navigating researcher profiles in scholarly social media in order to best represent the scholarship of their host institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliographic lists of publications by lecturers and researchers form an essential part of academic biographies. They represent the intellectual output by the institution as well, and refer to the scientific medium of the fields studied by individual re- searchers. Applying for financial support or grants, acquiring higher scholarly qualifications and scientific degrees, or gaining higher positions in academic institutions are in high correlation with presenting bibliographical lists and making them part of the statistics reports of the institutions. The first section of the article briefly overviews the characteristics of scientific publications in the fields of humanities and social sciences and presents the evaluation difficulties arising from them. It also reviews the scientometric efforts taken to eliminate the difficulties mentioned and to provide relevant evaluation and ranking aspects, such as the indicator of National Orientation (INO) and the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH). The second part outlines the Database of the Publications by the Staff of the Faculty of Humanities, Catholic University 'Pázmány Péter'. It overviews the first five years of developing the Database, the bibliographical challenges faced and the experiences gained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article points out the role of proper nouns in information organisation and retrieval systems. It explains the basic concepts and processes, such as name space, metadata and authority control which are relevant in maintaining name files. Authority control of proper nouns covers different aspects such as the semantic structure (e.g. name of type classification), reference (e.g. added data/descriptions for identifying an entry), form (e.g. order of name elements, script, the dissection of name parts) and syndetic relationships. The article mentions initiatives aiming the aggregation, sharing, linking and developing an interoperability of name spaces. An integration of significant domestic reference sources may contribute to the development of the Hungarian National Name Space project. In spite of today's changes in the roles of library services, maintaining name data remains one of the main tasks of bibliographers and cataloguers. A wide-spread use of Web 2.0 technology could contribute to library partnerships, promoting the sharing and management of proper noun data in collaborative frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports and comments on the results of a 2004 survey concerning the audited peculiarities and coverage of the Hungarian practice in authority control. The aim of the survey is to get an empirical overview of various segments of authority work, such as quantitative data, recommendation of standards, editing authority records, consistency of authorised forms, trsnsliteration practice, sharing authority information and utilizing external reference sources. Special attention was paid to the most variable name groups: ancient classics, medieval and ecclesiastic persons and bodies, and authorized forms of classical works. The results of the survey clearly show that there are only s few preconditions in Hungarian practice that are able to meet the new requirements appearing in new conceptions, such as functions of authority files, FRBR entity-relationship model, information management systems and users' expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study summarises the epoch-making recognitions, theories and methods of the history of the collocating function of the catalogue over several centuries. In the 17th century, the processes that nurtured the collocating function of the catalogue could be revealed through the development of the Bodleian Library's catalogues. Thomas Hyde's theories regarding the form and choice of entry headings and organising headings continue to be in accordance with the current tendencies in information organisation that reinforce the role of the authorised headings and indirectly, the collocating function of the catalogue. Theories of the standardised headings cannot be separated from the theories of the object of the cataloguing process, the work itself. In the 1960s, Ákos Domanovszky, the recognised Hungarian theorist of the efforts towards an international cataloguing code, gave a precise definition of the functions and objects of the catalogue as well as a concept of "a work". In his view, collecting the works of an author and collocating the editions of the works of an author should be regarded as two separate basic functions and not as one function in the general sense. Domanovszky's concept of work continued to influence the theories that have emerged around the millennium. The post-modern approach to the concept of work takes into consideration the diverse manifestations of the same intellectual content, the various media-containers as well as the different social and cultural contextual spaces. In the Frankfurt Principles (2003), the principle of collocation is incorporated as an implicit presupposition rather than an explicit recommendation. The principle allows of various interpretations and applications, making sure that catalogues are capable to collocate multiple data set elements according to varying demands. The study also touches upon the contacts of Hungarian fellow scholars of the 17th century with the Bodleian Library and Thomas Hyde. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]