Baztech
The project "Database of Polish technical journals BazTech edition 2025–2026" is co-financed by the "Social Responsibility of Science" program of the Minister of Education and Science. Gdańsk University of Technology has been participating in the creation of the database since 1997.
Other universities are also involved in the project, as part of the BazTech Consortium, which oversees the development of the database. The project is coordinated by the Lublin University of Technology, and the consortium includes:
- Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie
- Instytut Techniki Budowlanej w Warszawie
- Politechnika Białostocka
- Politechnika Bydgoska im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich
- Politechnika Częstochowska
- Politechnika Gdańska
- Politechnika Krakowska
- Politechnika Lubelska (koordynator)
- Politechnika Łódzka
- Politechnika Morska w Szczecinie
- Politechnika Opolska
- Politechnika Poznańska
- Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach
- Politechnika Świętokrzyska w Kielcach
- Politechnika Warszawska
- Politechnika Wrocławska
- Uniwersytet Jagielloński
- Uniwersytet Szczeciński
- Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
- Uniwersytet Zielonogórski
- Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna w Warszawie
- Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny
BazTech is a bibliographic and abstract database that has been recording articles from Polish journals in the fields of technical sciences, exact sciences, and environmental protection since 1998. BazTech is developing into a full-text citation database. Bibliographies have been added to article descriptions since 2004, and full texts of publications have been added on the basis of agreements with publishers. These activities make the database part of the open science movement.
The objectives of creating the database
- to provide a complete and free source of information on the content of Polish technical journals
- to promote the achievements of Polish scientific and technical thought
- to support the open science movement by making full texts of publications available
- to support interlibrary loans.