Development of a personal bibliographic information system

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to propose the bibliographic information system "Personal eLibrary bgMath". This is a system for the organisation, storage and usage of digitalised literature. It supports the user in organising his/her publications and his/her library of electronic issues. The system is very convenient, especially for scientific literature. Design/methodology/approach - The methodology to design a database storing information about publications and other literature is presented. The entity-relationship model of the database is described. The relational tables, obtained after the transformation of the created ER model into a relational model, are given. The paper contains the description of the forms implementing two basic tasks of the presented program, i.e. input and search for publications. The database is implemented by means of the database management system Microsoft Access 2007. Findings - The system Personal eLibrary bgMath allows easy manipulation of materials (papers, dissertations, reports, etc.) and references, which are used frequently and are very often necessary in scientific activity such as research, writing papers and dissertations, preparing reports and web pages or application documentation. The proposed program is free and a user guide is available. Originality/value - This paper proposes a practical method for creating a bibliographic system for scientific literature and explains its basic functional features.