Day 5

The last day of BiW dawned grey and rainy, luckily it was still the only day we have to use the umbrellas we got from the arrangers. First thing in the morning we heard presentation on research documentation at UiB - the many uses of a CRIS (Current Research Information System). In short, it is a tool to manage research output and to handle day-to-day information management. Ideally CRIS is an integrated system and it's going on in Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Next up was bibliometrics, that means quantitative analyses of scientific publishing, citations, journal impact factors etc. In Norway, they have used Scopus for this (it is Elsevier's recent large bibliographic database, covering approx 16,500 peer reviewed journals) and also Google Scholar is sometimes an option. Interestingly, we also tried Scopus out at JAMK, but it didn't get the full support here and so it was not purchased. http://info.scopus.com/

Last short presentation was about gender statistics, in particular at UiB.

After the lunch we went to the Bergen Museum's Natural History Collections. It was a very nice way to end our week as I think that at least one museum visit is mandatory when visiting new places. Particularly the viking collection was very nice indeed.

Unfortunately I had to leave the museum before the official goodbyes in order to catch my flight, so I couldn't thank the arrangers in person and bid farewell to the attendees, but I'll do it here: thank you Signe and Ane (and all the others included) for making BIW 2010 one of the best events I've been to on library field! And also hello and thanks to the colleagues who attended BIW, it was a pleasure to meet you all, to network and to share some ideas of our work!