The article gives an overview of the conference Research information systems in the EU - Standardization and Compatibility held in Bratislava at the end of April 2009. Topics of conference covered European format CERIF, Czech system of research and development and its evaluation, structure and functions of Hungarian system HunCRIS, detailed structure of Czech system ISVaV and its microdata and finally system of organization of system of research and development in Slovac Republic and its future.

This article gives an overview of the Dr. Vladimír Albrecht’s (Technology Centre AS CR) lecture on the topic of European research assessment in the course Introduction to Scientometrics organized by the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship of Charles University in Prague. The participants were informed about the activities of the Technology Centre AS CR, broad issue of the Framework Programmes and possibilities of its assessment.

The article summarizes information concerning new project in the grey literature domain called „OpenSIGLE (database)“. The project is lead by the French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information experts in cooperation with other experts from former EAGLE member institutions. Both information, from published materials and online and free accessible database OpenSIGLE (still prototype but soon real full database version) are used in this article. Individual parts are devoted to reasons of former SIGLE system and the EAGLE association liquidation, to former MetaGrey Europe project, and mainly to OpenSIGLE database (software selection, metadata conversion and searching capabilities). Evaluative notes to current version of database prototype are added too.