Expert Archive

  Archive Funds

Databases

Provision of services

The Archive provides the CGS staff members as well as external experts and the public with deposited archival documents. The services cover not only searching and presenting the objects needed, but also making them accessible to anybody’s further study.

•   Filing the user’s registration

  • Show your valid identity card.
  • The user’s registration card valid for one year is issued then and handed to you (for service charges see the price list).
  • Your registration signature will seal that you have been acquainted with the research rules and will follow them.
  • The listing of the research rules is at your disposal in the Study Room, too. 

•   Searching information

  The Archive fund data may be drawn from the following sources:

  • Card catalogues
    • the map fund (geographical catalogue, the themes and subjects of maps, the scale, author’s name catalogue)
    • the fund of reports and reviews (author’s name catalogue, catalogue according to localities)
  • The Digital Study Room application common both for the Library and the Archives (an online database of the map fund, metadata system, previews, printing of complete maps or their parts/cut-outs, graphic tools for document processing)
  • The Clavius application (common for the Library and Archives databases).

•   Study

  • External users are allowed to study the documents nowhere else but in the Study Room.
  • On prior arrangement, the selected document will be kept there for you to another day’s study.
  • A facility for making copies is accessible to the users.

•   Copying

  • In case of manuscript maps, printed geoscientific maps of foreign production as well as unpublished reports and reviewes it is necessary to follow the valid Copyright Act.
  • The Digital Study Room application facilitates high-quality printing of colour map cut-outs (price list).
  • Reversible lamination of printed documents (price list).
  • Black-and-white copying (A4 and A3 formats) of parts of map documents and reports ranks among standard services (price list).

    Bibliography services

• • The funds of reports, reviews and maps enable the schedule of bibliographic and search facts on a geological topic to be prepared by request.
  • It is possible to apply for the research services in person or in writing – by mail, by fax or by e-mail.
  • The external users are charged a fee for the research services (which are free for the CGS staff members).

    Additional services

  • Help with the search for the documents
  • Free delivery of the documents from the repository at Lužná near Rakovník
  • Booking and ordering by e-mail or over the phone
  • Some maps can be either purchased at the CGS shop or ordered on-line.