The findings of bibliometrical study are discussed to asses and compare the arrays of scholarly publications on the subject of academic dishonesty in Russia and in the world. The research method is based on interlinking the degree of scientific discourse maturity with terminological system sophistication. The dynamics of terminological system development in the area of academic dishonesty is examined with the search tools of Scopus as the largest reviewed scientific database, and Russian Science Citation Index. The title terms making the core of the terminological system for “academic dihonetsy” are identified, as well as the variants of their translation into the Russian language in the context of the problem. Based on the list of the title terms, the strategy for searching of scientific texts on the topic is built; the search results are visualized in the tables and graphs included. The author concludes that the array of the studies on the topic of academic dishonesty have been intensively developing in the academic community since 2000; she also argues that the stable long-term growth of publication is the trend in this area. However, based on RSCI, the scientific discourse of academic dishonesty in Russia has been developing just for the recent decade, with the trend of acceleration in the recent few years, though with insignificant accumulation of scientific texts array. The originality of the paper lies in the application of the approach of terminological system analysis with bibliometrical tools to estimate the maturity of research discourse in the individual subject area.

The author explores the array of doctoral dissertations in the area of forest engineering, forestry technologies and machines, submitted in the period of 1955–2022 (190 dissertations). The bibliometrical analysis enabled to specify 5 time periods differing in their dynamics (1955–1962; 1963–1970; 1971–1989; 1990–1999; 2000–2022). Before 1993, there were two defense hubs, namely Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); after 1993, regional hubs emerged. In 1993–2022, 68% dissertations were defended in the regions outside Moscow and St. Petersburg; 14% dissertations were defended in two disciplines. On average, 16 years were passing between scientist’s candidate and doctoral dissertations, however, since 1994, this difference may make less than 10 years – 24% papers in 2009–2022. In 1955–1982, the keywords “study”, “problems”, “basics” dominated in the titles, and since 1986 – “feasibility”, “increase”, and “improvement”. After 2006–2008, the number of titles including “feasibility” decreased, and the word combination “refining the theory (method)” became popular. Since 1986, the vector of studies changed from process and system studies toward their modernization and enhancement. Through classification by the research subject, 42 topical areas were specified, and then divided into two groups. Within the group one, the papers can be bundled (over 3 dissertations) and make subject fields where their own systematization is possible. In the group two, the dissertations make the individual studies (103 papers) that can hardly be consolidated into the array. Within several topical field, the cyclicism is observed – the dissertations are defended regularly. The content analysis of dissertation titles coupled with bibliometrical methods, reveals the more regular pattern within the individual specialty. The obtained findings will be demanded by researchers and professionals engaged in scientometrical and bibliometrical research.

The paper goal is to define the role of media analytics in library research. The author characterizes the main types and methods of applied library research (sociological, library statistics, bibliometrics). As the media tools used in applied library studies are limited, the author discusses the potentialities of media analytics as a new and promising research vector. Monitoring of library media presence enables to assess the library’s communication PR policy, its ability to attract audience attention, and to demonstrate its potential and social role. The functionality of Medialogia computerized mass and social media monitoring system is discussed; the data formats, tools and library opportunities are examined. The media analytics methods, i. e. monitoring, statistical and infographical methods, as well as content analysis, are described. The author analyzes the results of search of RNPLS&T media hits in the period from May 30, 2021, to May 30, 2022. She concludes that the Library has been intensifying its media activity, and its PRperformance has been increasing. The author also offers the recommendations on upgrading this vector of activities and on how to enhance the role of media analytics in the applied library research.

The authors discuss intellectualization of information analytics; in particular, they analyze the experience of medicine information support through the established system of databases and services of the Coсkrane Collaboration (Cockrane academic network). The authors reconstruct and explore the Cockrane method (model) of information analysis within the subject field of bibliography and informatics based on one of the authors’ personal experience of building systematic reviews of clinical trial results. The goal of the study is to reveal the potential and quality of the information analysis tools within the field of medicine, as well as to explore the feasibility and possibility of their adaptation and limitations in other fields. The study is based on the subject approach in bibliography and information analytics, informological approach, and theoretical tools of applied informatics. The structural functional and iterative methods were applied to study Cockrane through the prism of information analytics, professional user orientation, and knowledge management. The factors of user quality and performance of meta-analytical products for the purposes of evidence medicine are revealed; among them, source selection methods, data processing, procedural and organizational models, critical reviewing, and user differentiation in presenting information search findings. The analysis of meta-analytical information product building in evidence medicine enables to identify the range of methodological problems and promising vectors in the information studies.

The study goal is to specify the nomenclature of services types as presented at the library official websites. The authors characterize the library services as the subject of multi-aspect analysis and evaluation. They emphasize that the concept “library services” and “services by libraries” are not identical. The service economy affects diversification of services provided by the libraries. The authors complement the publications theoretical analysis with the findings of the largescale empirical study of services represented at the official websites of 77 central libraries of the RF constituent units (republican, regional territorial universal scientific libraries). The scale of diversification is demonstrated. The authors argue that the libraries have to undertake some unusual activities and to provide services foreign to their nature and social mission. The findings of the study demonstrate that services production in the libraries corresponds to 30 different types of professional activities. Many services provided by the libraries call for other than library, information, or bibliographic competences. Therefore, services quality assessment is needed; certification and licensing of the libraries providing them may be needed. The authors conclude that diversification as manifested in services inappropriate to the libraries is forced by the transfer to the market economy, development of service economy, and the focus on service-oriented government. 

Educating of the culture of information needs of future specialists and teaching effective ways of how to meet them are among the urgent tasks of higher education. The goal of the paper is to characterize the status of research in the field of academic information needs. The author reviews the publications of 2015–2021, included into the Scopus and Web of Science databases. She characterizes the document flow, discusses the basic contexts of the studies, highlights the organizational and methodological aspects of research, and reveals the influence of the research base on the results of studying the hierarchy of student information needs. The relationship of and differences between the concept of academic information needs and the concept of information needs related to educational activities are demonstrated. The academic information needs are stipulated by the need to maintain academic performance, to adapt to academic work and future career, to overcome learning difficulties, to master learning methods, to get involved in student activities and academic life, to live on or off campus, and to participate in international programs, etc. The extrinsic factors affecting the formation, expression and satisfaction of academic information needs include: environment, area of study, the functions performed by the student and the timing for the assignment. The intrinsic factors are: level of education, previous experience, age, personal and physical characteristics, and level of motivation. The author argues that the specific character of academic information needs of older students is studied insufficiently. She also formulates the proposals on how to educate the culture of academic information needs.

Science plays an important role in ensuring the society’s well-being and performs a number of functions, of which the most significant are to build new knowledge, improve education, and increase the quality of life. The new stage of science-society communications is characterized by the expansion of civil participation in planning, conducting and financing of scientific research. One of the main tasks of science communication is to increase scientific literacy (SL) of nonscientists. The documents analysis demonstrates that the developed countries pay special attention to scientific thinking and SL promotion, and all social institutions, including libraries, are engaged in appropriate activities. In recent decades, the study of the SL formation features has become a popular research topic worldwide. However, Russian library studies pay insufficient attention to the foreign experience in the field. The goal of this paper is to review and analyze English-language publications on “scientific literacy in libraries”. The author characterizes in detail such vectors of activities as development of popular science collections, participation of libraries in STEM education, and other practices of foreign libraries in teaching SL.

Review of the joint monograph “Essays on bibliographic activity of the Russian State Library: A monograph” / Russian State Library ; ed. by G. L. Levin. Moscow : Pashkov dom, 2022. 734 p.

The author reviews the joint monograph by the leading specialists of the Russian State Library (RSL). The article is publishedon the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the reference and information office as the division of the library of State Rumyantsev Museum in December 1918. The office rendered all types of bibliographic user services (e. g. address, subject, specifying bibliographic references). The reviewed monograph covers all the main fields of RSL’s bibliographic activity: development of reference library collection, reference and information services, building of all the main types of bibliographic directories, bibliographical information service in culture and arts, making of bibliographical indices of Russian emigration literature, research in theory of bibliography, etc. The choice of RSL bibliographic activity as the main object of study makes an appropriate contribution to the development of Russian theory of bibliography. The reviewer regards intensification of research activities of larger libraries (e. g. national) as an attribute of the modern theory of bibliography. The joint monograph is one of few large-scale research works covering the full range of the national library's bibliographic activities of the last century; therefore, it is of high value.