Russian science policy in 2012–2018 appeared to be efficient which is proved by increased number of Russian publications indexed by Web of Science and Scopus. Dubious publication practices on and out of the fringes of science ethics is the other side of the coin. One cannot deny the scale of these practices while it is hard to be estimated. This scientometric challenge may be met through the transfer from integer calculation to fractional one. The authors introduce the term “national fractional calculation” which enables to estimate objectively organizations’ and researchers’ contributions into national science while not to demotivate participation in international collaborations. Based on the example of three groups, i. e. research organizations, Project 5-100 universities and other universities, the integer and fractional calculations are compared in detail for the 2018 as well as in the dynamics for the period 2000–2018 and for different disciplines. The authors show that, moving forward, fractional calculations increasingly differ from the integer ones. The largest differences are characteristic for the group of leading universities of Project 5-100 group being “scientometrically pressurized” within the framework of the national science policy.

The article highlights the first stage of creating a specialized collection (section) “For Library Professionals” on the portal of the National Electronic Library (NEL). The last decade’s trend has been a reduction in the number of titles of professional library publications, and a drop in their average circulation. In these conditions, the issue of providing library and information specialists with relevant scientific, practical and reference literature has become urgent. One of the ways to solve the problem is creating electronic collections of professional library literature. The article analyzes the Russian State Library’s experience in this area since the early 2000s. Currently, the special collection “For Library Professionals” is available on the basis of the National Electronic Library, a key library and information project of recent years. The collection has been accessible since July 2019. At the beginning of 2020, this section included about 1,5 thousand documents of different types (monographs, indexes, textbooks and manuals, collected scientific articles, proceedings of scientific conferences, periodical materials, etc.). At the end of 2 019, a survey w as conducted on the feasibility of maintaining a professional library collection in the NEL, which was attended by about 700 professionals in the area. The article analyzes the results of this survey, which indicate the demand for such electronic collections of professional library literature and show the priority topics demanded by library employees and expectations in the field of search capabilities.

The study objective is to determine the potential of the city scientific libraries to support institutions of the scientific and educational complex with information. Using a wide range of statistical data, the authors describe the resource base development of scientific libraries in Novosibirsk including libraries of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and higher educational institutions. They show the influence of the scientific and educational space transformation on certain areas of scientific libraries activity. The article updates existing ideas on the component structure of the educational space interdependent subjects. Taking into account factors of a social nature affecting the structure of the scientific and educational environment of Novosibirsk, the authors characterize the scientific libraries potential, their documentary resources, and substantiate that accelerating the leading universities and scientific institutions integration motivates scientific libraries of different statuses to develop new models of their corporate interaction. Under the city scientific libraries disproportionately provision with information resources, it is advisable to form an adequate model for all participants interaction in the scientific and educational process, and create a system of informing about the resource capabilities of the entire conglomeration of city scientific libraries based on navigation tool application. Converging the resource base of the city scientific libraries should have a compensatory value for information support of scientific and educational activities.

Library collection development is today being accomplished in the highly competitive environment. Therefore new approaches to this process have to be found. The author attempts to apply several logistical instruments. The author identifies information; documentary and financial flows in the process of collection development technology and substantiates their applicability theoretically. Managing these flows would enhance the processes of library collection development. Despite the fact that the “documentary flow’’ category has been used both by Russian and Belarusian librarians and library scientists; this is the first attempt made in Belarusian library science and in the collection studies; in particular; to apply logistical approach to library collection development; while the author takes precedence of specifying information and financial flows as science categories. The parameters of the flows are identified; i. e.: document class; type; genre; form; language and country; number of document titles and copies; financial characteristics (price); and dimensions and weights (document format). The financial flow; in its turn; is characterized by volume; time; cost and vector; while the information flow’s characteristics are: information generation source; information target addressee, and purpose of generated information.

Open access repositories are an integral part of open science infrastructure that ensures the accessibility and findability of research results. This article is based on the analysis of the various types of repositories. The authors attempted to identify main functions of these platforms, their features and development trends. The sample includes 11 repositories, both institutional and thematic projects, and also general-purpose platforms. The main function of repositories is the storage of publications, although over time the role of these services as the publication priority registrators is increasing. Projects typically feature pre-moderation procedures, as well as a rather careful attitude to the metadata and its accuracy. Only one repository charges publication fee, their revenue come from sponsorship funds, donations, advertising, additional paid services (in various combinations). The possibilities of social interaction as a rule are quite limited: neither reviewing, nor even commenting are built-in functions of the reviewed projects. Collective work on the manuscript is also impossible. The trends of repositories future development are the diversification of formats and types of works exchanged by scientists, as well as the increasing of the importance of non-profit projects for the scientific communication infrastructure.

The author discusses the experience of building, maintaining and using the bibliographical database of science publications by the faculty of the state Dubna University. She analyzes in detail MegaPro ALIS retrieval functionality and describes different types of the system’s dictionaries and guides, their advantages and drawbacks in terms of entering data into bibliographic entry. The algorithm of using outer tables for reference when entering repeated subfields in one-click or entering data into several subfields of the bibliographic records. The example is given how hierarchical data of organization structure is used as an outer dictionary.

Feasibility of using the directories of faculty authors and journals/other sources of information in publication databases is substantiated; example is given how to use them when entering several subfields of MARC21 fields 100, 700 and 773. The methodological solutions for maintaining directories of faculty authors and journals (and other information sources) are discussed.

User and program interface for retrieving publications by author’s affliation, academic degree or title, institution, information source specific data are discussed as a result of building database of publications. The author emphasizes that the dictionaries may be used as supplementary information resources to support faculty publication activities and to integrate them into other university systems.

Review of the monograph: Brezhneva V. V. Information management: Theory and methodology / V. V. Brezhneva, R. S. Gilyarevsky, E. D. Zhabko ; Under general editorship of V. V. Brezhneva ; RF Ministry of Culture, S.-Petersburg State Institute of Culture. – St. Petersburg. : SPbGIC, 2019. – 184 p. – ISBN 978-5-94708-284-5. [In Russian].