Towards the Information System for Research Programmes of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

The work describes the phases of the development of the information system on scientific activities covered by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. The sequential phases of the project are: Recording data on scientific institutions, researchers, and research projects financed by the Ministry, Input and evaluation of the published results achieved in the research projects financed by the Ministry, Establishing electronic services for searching, presentation, and interoperability of data on scientific activity, and Generating various reports for the different needs related to scientific activities. The information requirements are listed and the system software architecture is described. The development of the system is based on the recommendations of the organization euroCRIS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]