Results of the meeting of the section of special scientific, scientific technical and technical libraries of Russia at the XXVIII Conference of the Russian Library Association
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The 300 th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences is celebrated in 2024. Among its institutions, the libraries hold a special place as depositories of scientific knowledge rendering research support services. The authors discuss the experience of the Library of the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was established in the second half of the 19 th as the library of the Chemical Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
Rujero Sergeevich Gilyarevsky is a prominent Russian scholar, Doctor of Science in Philology, Professor, one of the founders of information science, wellknown library scientist, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Chief Researcher, Head of Theoretical and Applied Problems Division of the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Rujero Gilyarevsky is among the most remarkable, vivid, and versatile individuals in the information and library community.
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The experience of the CSAL in creating, maintaining and using the authority file of names of sectoral organizations is discussed. The characteristics of the authority file and information sources are given, methodological solutions for data generation are considered. The authority file is used to improve the quality of bibliographic entries by unifying access points, improving the processes of in- formation exchange and retrieval.
The authors examine the specific publishing activities of universities and formulate the main challenges for academic publishing divisions. Within the study, eight publishing departments of Ekaterinburg universities demonstrated the following problems: decreasing circulation against the increase in the number of students; partial reversal from proprietary publishing facilities, loading of publications and e-publications into the electronic library systems, degradation of publications, unfair paper reviewing practice, decreasing funding and number of commercial projects, old age of employe
The author examines the place of scientometrics in the general analysis of Russian flow of scientific publications (and changes in the attitude toward this issue in Russia in the recent years). He focuses, in particular, on the information and software tools for scientometric research (scientometric databases – OBD). The problems preventing today from using Web of Science and Scopus DBs are noted. The author argues that the RSCI database (Russian Science Citation Index) is currently the most appropriate choice.
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