Operating within the framework of the University of Maribor's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Studies, the Institute for Music Information Science functions to provide information, categorisation, promotion and support to modern Slovene music in all of its forms, types and genres. The Institute, with its own databases, enables an overview of the entire Slovene music production and reproduction scene. It also provides a continuous, intensive, opened and centralised flow of information. All this together enables international cultural and especially musical co-operation and promotion. The Institute deals with. folk music and serious music, the music of European nations and national minorities, and popular music in all its forms, types and genres.