Albertina icome Bratislava s.r.o. (AiB) started in March 1996 as a daughter company of Albertina icome Praha s.r.o. Our customer base includes academic and university libraries, medical and other specialty libraries, government institutions, public libraries, corporate information centres etc. Today, our primary activities include:

• Electronic information resources: We provide customers in the Slovak Republic with online and off-line (CD-ROM/DVD-ROM) information resources published by major publishers of the world. Our partners include Thomson Dialog, ProQuest CSA, Ovid Technologies, Taylor and Francis Group, ebrary, Thomson Gale, OECD, Justis Publishing, Knovel Corporation, H. W. Wilson Company, AAAS, Oxford University Press and many others. Our current catalogue includes over 2100 professional titles and is published and updated at our web site and via a bi-weekly electronic newsletter (in Slovak language). Extensive customer support is provided including consulting, training, hotline etc. We also take care of subscribers of databases published by our sister company - AiP Beroun.
• E-resources integration, management and linking: We offer several solutions by various publishers which allow integration of electronic information resources:
  • Federated searching - including OVID SearchSolver by Ovid Technologies and Central Search by Serials Solutions.
  • Linking tools (also "link resolving/resolvers" or "OpenURL resolvers") - you can get OVID LinkSolver by Ovid Technologies, Ulrich's Resource Linker by Bowker and ArticleLinker by Serials Solutions.
  • E-resources portal - represented by A.M.S. (Access & Management Suite) by Serials Solutions.
  • E- resource management - also as a part of A.M.S. (Access & Management Suite) and E.R.M.S. (Electronic Resources Management System) by Serials Solutions and Ulrich's Serials Analysis System (USAS) by Bowker.
  • Central MARC-records resource - Full MARC Records by Serials Solutions.
• E-resources access management solutions: The NetMan solution by H+H Software GmbH makes it easier to manage and provide access to online resources, software packages and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM applications. NetMan provides a common interface integrating numerous optional components, such as:
  • HAN (Hidden Access Navigator) designed to manage access to "for-fee" online information resources with access authentication based on userid/password and/or IP-address resolution. This product is also available as standalone application.
  • CD-ROM server based on the Virtual-CD technology - designed to provide access to information resources and multimedia by any publisher - at a local workstation, in a local network or across WAN/Intranet/Internet.
  • Terminal Server Application Management by NetMan allows to manage and deploy Windows applications in a network environment using the Citrix MetaFrame solution or NetMan's internal functionality.
• Consortium and buying group licensing: AiB has introduced the buying group licensing idea in the Slovak Republic since 2003/2004. We are involved in numerous projects in the Slovakia, e.g.:
  • ProQuest 5000 International consortium licence
  • Knovel Library consortium licence
  • CAB Abstracts buying group project
  • ProQuest STM Package buying group project
  • ProQuest Medical Library buying group project
  • ProQuest Agriculture Collection buying group project
  • and others...

  Participants in these consortium and buying group projects are being provided with extensive support: specialized websites in Slovak (e.g. infozdroje.sk), training and presentations, user manuals, brochures, specialized listservs etc.

• Specialty events: One of our primary goals since the very start was raising awareness on electronic information resources in the Slovak Republic and supporting their users. Therefore, we started organizing many events: seminars, workshops, trainings, presentations etc. We also participate on some special events organized by other institutions as co-organizer and/or speakers.
  The major event organized by AiP Group is the INFORUM conference. The conference started in 1995 and has grown into the most important event in the area of professional information resources in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The conference now attracts over 600 attendees (more than 70 from Slovakia).