Modern technologies changed the requirements users have for searching in scientific databases. User not only expects to find the needed document, he also expects to find a suitable offer of related documents. Automated endorsement systems based on different principles work e.g. for online bookstores and library catalogues. A new tool bX was developed for scientific materials. This article deals with how it works, its benefits and deployment.

The UStat (an Ex Libris usage statistics service) allows the collecting and reporting of usage statistics information supplied by vendors (content providers) in COUNTER format. Loading usage statistics data may be performed manually or by using SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative). SUSHI allows automatic data harvesting using vendor provided Web services that comply with the SUSHI protocol and loading it into the UStat database. With access to this data via the UStat service, librarians have more alternatives for analyzing and understanding usage within their institutions or corporations.

Presently people use more Web in their studying and work and it is also a reason why they need more often instruments for making snippets which make easier and streamline them control and organization of information which they find on Web. This text shows possibilities and advantages of this services on one example which name is CLIPMARKS.

The article focuses on electronic document delivery services in the Czech Republic, especially in the agricultural and food sector. Recent history and development of these services is mentioned briefly, attention is focused particularly on current issues in the context of the contract between National Library of the Czech Republic and the theatrical, literary and audiovisual agency DILIA.

Citing information resources correctly is still a current issue. Correct citations are required from both researchers and faculty staff when writing articles for specialized magazines and students when writing theses. That's why sophisticated tools were created to make this task simpler for users. So called bibliographic managers enable users to create and manage large bibliographies and format them at once into one of hundreds of citation standards. There are both free and commercial products available. SFX is able to cooperate with e.g. RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero and the Czech Citace.com systems for automatic metadata collection, but the cooperation can work also in the opposite direction when bibliographic managers link to full texts via a predefined SFX instance. To sum up, cooperation of SFX and bibliographic managers can be very beneficial to users.

The article briefly introduces OpenStreet Map – a community project aimed at creating a map which can be used in a variety of ways.

An ERMS is a software that assists the library in managing all the details related to its subscriptions to electronic content. The ILS has not necessarily evolved to accommodate all aspects of managing electronic content but it is possible for the ERMS to be well-integrated with an ILS. The article deals with advantages of the ERM System Verde by Ex Libris. Verde was successfully implemented at Charles University in Prague.

The National Technical Library in Prague (Czech abbrev. NTK) offers a new service called eBooks on Demand (EOD). Its aim is a digitisation on demand of NTK‘s historical collection of books. Through the EOD service customers can order public domain books for digitisation and an electronic copy of a book is then delivered to them. Later on, NTK stores this eBook copy in the Digital National Technical Library and thus offers it to other interested customers for free. This article introduces the EOD service and its implementation in the NTK.

The article introduces two next generation open source OPACs based on a content management system – Scriblio and SOPAC – and summarizes the results of the analysis.