| COMARC/B | March | 1996 |
Bibliographic records relating to the results of the research activities are designated for different users having different information needs. Within COBISS/OPAC and COBISS/Izpisi, software solutions are available for a bibliography output.
A researcher's code helps in selecting records that should be displayed in the personal bibliography. If there is no researcher's code, the items should be selected by the family and personal name.
It is logical for the personal bibliography to be displayed from the COBIB shared database, which is supposed to contain records from all local databases. Machine-readable data which is downloaded in the local database with the retrospective records conversion makes an exception. Technically speaking, a personal bibliography may be displayed also from local databases of separate libraries, but its completeness is not guaranteed. Researchers change institutions often, and some of them are working for more than one institution at the same time.
A bibliography may be displayed for a certain time period, and bibliographic items may also be selected by the language of the document/work, by the country of publication, etc.
At this moment bibliographic items may be displayed in three standard formats:
bibliographic references display using the format recommended by ISO 690 (Documentation - Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure),
display according to ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) for library needs,
bibliographic references display using the format presented in the publications by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, inc. - IEEE.
A bibliography may be displayed in one column (default value) or in two columns.
Bibliographic items may be divided according to the type of document/work, publication year, author and title or heading. The following variants are possible:
type of document/work, publication year, author, title (default value),
publication year, type of document/work, author, title,
type of document/work, author, title,
publication year, author, title,
author, title.
Bibliography of institutions/organizations is displayed the same way.
As for the individual outputs in local applications the download of bibliographic records is available that is structured according to separate fields/subfields, and regarding the type of document/work.