The authors discuss the findings of the empirical bibliometric analysis of the dynamics of 1993–2020 national and international publications on cardiovascular system (С&CVS) and medicine and health (M&H) in SCI-E database (WoS). The study revealed that by 2020, the share of Russian M&H publications was almost as twice (10.9%) as the share of the same publications in the world M&H array. The share of Russian funded C&CVS publications was growing at heady rate, from 3.0% in 2010 up to 24.9% in 2020. The citation analysis of C&CVS publications evidences that the impact of competitive financing is much higher than that of the Open Access system. The Cardiology journal leaded in the Russian publications in 2020 and in 2016 and was publishing foreign articles intensively. The Russian cardiologists were active authors in the most prestigious international journals in 2016: 7% of publications in European Journal of Heart Failure and 6.2% in Atherosclerosis journal. The findings of the study can be used for planning science policy in medicine and health.

Publishing the findings of scientific research in reputable scientific publications affects the rate of knowledge dissemination. At the same time, most Belarusian scientific journals has been revising their publishing concept to meet the criteria set by citation indexes.

The paper aim is to determine the status of the Belarusian scientific periodicals in the conditions of the developing model of electronic scientific communication in the post-Soviet states.

At the first stage, the stream of publications by Belarusian researchers was identified, and the positive dynamics in 2011 to 2021 was recorded. Documents were analyzed by type and thematic categories. At the second stage, the list of Belarusian scientific journals was analyzed for their indexation in the science citation databases, the availability of the periodical website, the positive dynamics of the titles on the List of scientific publications for publishing the findings of dissertations recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of Republic of Belarus (List of publications of the Higher Attestation Commission), etc.

Based on the analysis, it was revealed that Belarusian scientific journals are widely represented in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI); at the same time, there is a certain “stagnation” in their entering the international citation indices – Scopus or Web of Science. The authors emphasize the challenge of Belarusian scientific periodicals insufficient presence in the Internet, and of the absent websites of some periodicals.

The author examines e-libraries as a subdivision of the new discipline of e-librarianship. The e-libraries as a particular subject of the library information environment emerged in 1990s, and in the mid-decade, the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (RNPLS&T) introduced its first e-collections. In 2020–2022, within the framework of the new research theme “Electronic Librarianship”, the RNPLS&T was developing the subjects of e-librarianship entity and definition, as well as of the terminological system. Today, the RNPLS&T’s research team has been preparing the multi-authored monograph “Electronic Librarianship”. The author discusses definitions for e-libraries offered by several scientists, with the preference given to that introduced in the textbook “Electronic libraries. Information and communication environment” [in Russian].

The author characterizes the major e-libraries, both national and global. Further intensive development and improvement of e-libraries is beyond doubt. The author suggests that the National Electronic Library (NEL) and Open Information Archives are to play the leading role in this process.

The e-library is one of the subjects of studies in the area of e-librarianship. The generic affinity of the concepts of “library” and “e-library” is emphasized, which makes the e-librarianship the subdiscipline of general librarianship. Meanwhile, the e-librarianship covers a particular wide substantive area. The e-librarianship structure has to become the focus of further studies. The terms “e-library” and “digital library” are specified.

The key trends of developing e-libraries as a component of library systems and libraries in the digital environment are defined, e. g. consolidation of providers of e-resource management systems, introduction of open source projects and information systems to support science, etc.

Today, almost every university (high school), research institute, large or even medium-size library get their e-libraries, which stipulates and actualizes the development of new discipline of e-librarianship by RNPLS&T’s team.

The modern libraries’ integration into the general information space is the key to further success.

The article is prepared under the Government Order No. 075-01235-23-01 of August 9, 2023, theme No. 1021062311368-2-5.8.3 “Development pf electronic librarianship as a scientific and academic discipline in the circumstances of transforming library collections, reference, bibliographic and document services in the digital environment (FNEG-2022-0004)”

The author accomplishes comparative analysis of Russian and foreign software for the library sector. The need for such analysis is determined by the strategy of import substitution stimulated by the Western sanctions. Software and databases recommended for purchase and application on the territory of the Russian Federation are included into the Russian Software Register and Eurasian Software Register. Every library uses its own software package, however, the essential software includes operating system, web browser, office suite, automated library information system (ALIS). The author compares the core functionality of each software type: OS (Microsoft Windows, Astra Linux, Alt Linux, RedOS), web browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Yandex Browse), and office software suite (Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, MyOffice, R7-Office). The comparison between foreign and Russian ALIS is inappropriate because, unlike other software categories, Russian ALISes were initially developed by Russian companies in Russian reality, in accordance with Russian laws and Russian traditions of librarianship. The author suggests that the main functionality of foreign and national software beyond the accomplished analysis (e. g. video editors, drawing programs, etc.) is also similar. Based on the comparative analysis of foreign and Russian software, the author concludes that their core functionality are similar which means that import substitution would not impact the organizational information processes significantly.

The paper is prepared under the Government Order to RNPLS&T for 2023, project No. 720000F.99.1.BN60AA03000, theme No. 1021062311369-1- 1.2.1;5.8.2,5.8.3.

The RNPLS&T accomplishes research aimed at improving and developing bibliographic standards and formats, classification and indexing system, frameworks and solutions for library informatization. The materials, publications and reports on the studies make the sources for building the content of RNPLS&T’s Single Open Information Archive (SOIA) [1]. The information model of the subsystem of preservation and management of the data on the research by RNPLS&T professionals was designed on the basis of the experience of using CRIS-systems in Russian academic and research organizations. The authors attempt the analytical review of CRIS-systems implementation in Russian research and analytical organizations, and describe the RNPLS&T’s CRIS-system as a part of SOIA system. They describe in detail the metadata schemes used for presenting data on research findings in RNPLS&T’s CRIS-system.

The CERIF standard is based on the data model comprising the entities of “project”, “organization” and “person”, their connections and their attributes. The extended metadata schemes in XML format used for sharing information on research exchange are oai_cerif_openaire and oai_openaire, compatible with CERIF model and supporting usability of OpenAIRE profile.

The SOIA metadata exchange subsystem and OAI-PMH data provider generate metadata in oai_cerif_openaire format on the basis bibliographic records in e-catalog, data on authors, organizations and projects as presented in appropriate authority files. Actualization of data on author IDs in the international and national databases (ORCID, RSCI, WoS, Publons, Scopus, ResearchGate) in the authority files is essential.

The paper is prepared within the framework of the Government Order No.of August 17, 2023, 075-01235-23-01 of August 17, 2023, theme No. 1021062311369-1-1.2.1;5.8.2;5.8.3 “Information support of research by scientists and specialists on the basis of RNPLS&T’s Open Archive as the system of scientific knowledge aggregation (FNEG-2022-0003)” for 2020–2024.

The growing information streams and expanding information space have made information easy accessible while the need for its filtration, critical reevaluation, and clear-cut assessment criteria emerged. The younger generation has to master skills of retrieving, analyzing and using reliable information to support their lives, career and social success. Being skillful Internet users, the teenagers yet demonstrate the low level of information culture. However, the requirement to educate information culture is formulated in The Federal State Educational Standard of Comprehensive Secondary Education (FGOS) in the disciplines “Mathematics”, “Informatics” and “Literature”. The results of the regional stage of the All-Russian Olympiad of School Students – the republican Olympiad in the personal information culture (Republic of Buryatia) – have demonstrated non-conformity of teenagers’ performance with the FGOS standard. No similar Olympiads are held in other RF regions, which makes the study particularly valuable. The authors emphasize that the Olympiad in this subject area has to be implemented in other regions. They applied several research methods to assess information literacy, namely empirical (observation, comparison) and theoretical (analysis, generalization). The analysis is based on students’ answers. The newness of the study lies in characterizing information culture of Buryat schoolchildren and specifying major challenges, substantiating and extending obtained data, and suggesting new vectors of information culture regional studies.

The world museums and libraries hold extensive collections of old manuscripts, books, works of applied arts, in the design of which the oriental ornament called the arabesque is used. In this article, the arabesque is examined as a material object that has a symbolic designation and an informational component, that is a document. The author reviews the historical origins of the arabesque, describes its elements, artistic techniques and techniques of the geometric construction from the point of view of the syntactive component. The author focuses on the Arabic calligraphy used in the ornaments, as a significant part of Islamic culture; the development of Arabic writing and various types of handwriting is discussed. The calligraphic inscriptions in the arabesque are considered as a phenomenon of even the higher significance than the image. The author explains the origins of complicated unreadable and abbreviated inscriptions in the ornaments. In total, the classification and document classification criteria developed by G. N. Shvetsova-Vodka were applied to seven diverse ornaments.The study proves that this classification works efficiently and is easy to use: the considered detailed features confirm the correspondence of the arabesque to the term “document”. The article may be of interest to specialists in the field of library science, historians, art historians, religious scholars, artists and designers.