The authors discuss the sci-tech libraries in historical aspect; these libraries make the key element of the national system of sci-tech information and information services and support national science and technology. They follow the dynamics of building the network of research institutions and special sci-tech libraries that replaced technical, factory and company libraries. The role of the USSR State Public Library for Science and Technology (USSR SPLS&T) is highlighted: during the Soviet era it was the country’s head sci-tech library, the main methodological center for technological libraries, interdepartmental coordinator of user services, collection development, interlibrary loan, and translation of scitech literature. The authors emphasize the importance of the national regulation of sci-tech library and information services, and their development through building the state system of sci-tech information. The authors also examine the goals of t he S PLS&T U SSR a s a research institution in the area of library and bibliographic studies; SPLS&T supported the unity of efforts within the system. The authors analyze the implementation of the national sci-tech program; within the framework of the program, the RNPLS&T acts as the head agency of the Automated System of the Russian Union Catalog in science and technology and provides for interaction of sci-tech library network and sci-tech information institutions in using the databases by associated members. The authors substantiate the need for the new national system of sci-tech information based on the laws and regulations adopted in the recent decades. They analyze the results of 2023 All-Russian monitoring of sci-tech libraries and sci-tech information centers; evaluate the capacities of sci-tech libraries for supporting corporate projects, scitech professionals and researchers.

The comprehensive studies on the history of military research libraries are scarce. The authors discuss the history of the library of Imperial Engineering Academy and School; analyze the development of library collection of this institution. The authors chronologize t he h istory o f t he A cademy a nd i ts l ibrary. The relevant regulatory and legal documents that defined the library operation and development, as well as the Academy’s and School’s annual reports, made the basis of the study. The key collection development sources are specified, namely purchase, funded subscriptions to periodicals, free copies of publications by the General Headquarters Military Typography, gifts, and exchange with other institutions. For the first time, the list of employees for the years 1869–1915 is compiled with the specification of their contribution to the library and teaching activities. The authors argue that the Academy’s book collection is the largest research sector library preserving the best military engineering and academic literature of 15th – early 20th centuries

The reviews of library ecological activities have been regularly published in the Scientific and Technical Libraries journal since 2002. The author discusses the 4-th conference on the current problems of ecological education ”Ecological information and ecological culture”. The theme of the year 2023 was “The libraries and noospheric thinking: The 160th anniversary of V. I. Vernadsky”. The participants explored in more depth the role of libraries in ecological education and promotion of sustainable development goals (SDGs), linking this vector to the role of libraries as the centers of socially valuable information, creative industries and areawide development.

The author discusses the analysis and building of information resources for decision-making systems and efficient business processes management within the framework of the operating digital twin of educational institution. She reviews the general approaches to building the knowledge bases of the decision-making systems, and identifies the factors to be taken into account when building the databases. The author discusses literature analysis and monitoring tools, analyzes the publication activity in science periodicals and provides the data of sematic charts monitoring separately for 2015 and 2020 in several areas: education computerization, continuing education, education digitalization, remote learning systems, digital courses, digital education, electronic libraries, information and communication technologies, massive open online courses and virtual education. The data of Web of Science were used. The semantic charts are built on the basis of co-occurence of scholarly sources keywords using VOSviewer software that extracts terms from abstracts and article keywords and adding them to the entity

The author examines the experience of Yanka Kupala State University Library (Grodno, Belarus) in providing digital document resources to its users. The proprietary information resources are reviewed; the selection principles for library Internet-resources are specified; user awareness services are described. The library organizes information educational workshops intended for the faculty, though it experiences some problems in disseminating information on library services and resources, in particular, students’ low interest in information literacy and lacking teaching hours for library courses. The author suggests several possible solutions and prospective vectors for the academic library, i. e. development of proprietary resources, corporate collaboration, improvement, development and introduction of new methods of user services. The author emphasizes the importance of improving librarians’ professional competences in providing reliable and enhanced information.

The author analyzes the processes of modernization of digital resources of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). She also substantiates the need for integrated systems for data multi-purpose parallel use. The partners of expanding cataloging objects are the Ministry of Culture and Spiritual Development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Republican House of Folk Art and Socio- Cultural Technologies – in building the Electronic Catalog of Intangible Cultural Heritage “Cultural Code of Yakutia”; and the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) – in acquiring the Electronic Encyclopedia and the National Database “Science of Yakutia”. The national database “Science of Yakutia“ is discussed in great detail; it comprises scientific works, findings of fundamental and applied scientific research submitted on the basis of an agreement between the author (researcher) / scientific organization and the library. The author discusses the experience of acquiring the database based on authors’ territorial affiliation – regardless the content and place of publishing; publications by indigenous Yakutian authors; publications by Yakutian residents; authors related to Yakutia professionally. The author also reviews the issues of database modernization, application of scientometric technologies in information support of regional science and education, and the projected new information platform OPENScienceSakha (repository) comprising bibliographic information on scientific publications and citation of publications based on the methodology of polythematic international databases of scientific citation

In the circumstances of transforming institution of intellectual property, the journals have to find balance between the open science initiatives and legal regulations. The purpose of the study is to define whether Russian academic journals conform to open science initiatives and, in particular, to the open access principles and open licensing terms. The author discusses the findings of the study encompassing 450 journals in the Russian Science Citation Index database (as of December 1, 2022) using the following criteria: journal allocation site, archive depth, access principle, license terms and the website section on licensing terms. Based on the obtained data systematization and analysis, the trends for Russian academic journals are formulated: in general, they are ready for introducing open access principles. By choosing open licensing, most of the Russian academic journals are ready to offer maximum freedom in using their publications. The author developed several recommendations for the journals as the sites of scientific data exchange, and for the researchers as the users, generators and disseminators of these data.

The author substantiates the application of transdisciplinary approach to the book typology studies. While emphasizing the relevancy of these studies, she reviews the theoretical aspects of the book definition and typological features as they appear in the article by Yury V. Nesterovich “Reviewing the “book” term explication in the context of documentology”. The analysis makes the author convinced that the book typological characteristics have to be seen as the theoretical foundation for grouping the information objects of the book type rather than as the basis for classifying the items within this type structure. In this context, the “book’ term has to be formulated from metatheoretical perspective, along with the documentological and categorical approaches, and adopted to the present information space. Such analysis enables to study the book as a complex fuzzy system and to look at the book typology from the perspective of fuzzy logics theory The author emphasizes transdisciplinary character of these studies and cites some results of fuzzy logic application to e-book analysis. She concludes on the good perspectives for transdisciplinary strategies in the book typology studies.