MTMT - Hungarian Scientific Bibliography Database I. .
Wolf György
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MTMT I. and MTMT II.
The Hungarian Scientific Bibliography (abbreviated as MTMT for the Hungarian name, Magyar Tudományos Művek Tára) is a national system to collect and organize the scientific output of Hungary’s higher education system and research institutes.
The new endeavour builds on previous experience of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a few universities where similar activity produced locally usable data services. These previous services provided lists of all scientific publications of individuals and in a separate aspect a list of an institution's scientific output during a specific time period. The new venture aims at consolidation these activities in a single joint service, providing a unique window on all the Hungarian science and scholarship. It will have its own international search portal as well as be a customizable data source on which individual institutions could build their own web-based search systems, displaying their own output.
MTMT’s underlying principles are the following. (a) It is open to all Hungarian scientists and their host institutions, (b) the institutions sign a contract with MTMT to provide funds to cover the costs of the centralized part of the system and accept responsibilities for uploading their recent scientific bibliography into the centralized database. (c) Responsibility for the validity of the personal and institutional part of the bibliography is shared by the institution and the individual scientist. (c) A quality control system is being developed to insure validity using centralized as well as distributed components. (d) MTMT aims to collect data on all scientific work of the scientists, but accepts data on related but non-scientific writings of the scientists involved, so that both a scientific and a full bibliography of the scientists is available from the system.