The economics of access versus ownership: The Library for Natural Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce R. Kingma ◽  
Natalia Mouravieva
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

scholarly journals LIBRARY FOR NATURAL SCIENCES OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NETWORK SERVICES AS A BASIS FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INFORMATION SUPPORT

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. E. Kalenov
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Network Resources ◽  
Library System ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Online Library ◽  
Network Technologies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The resources and services provided by the Library for Natural Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences are considered both in open access and to Library for Natural Sciences authorized users — scientists of academic institutions. Library for Natural Sciences heads the Centralized library system, which includes the Central Library and 50 of its branches in the RAS institutions located in Moscow region. The main objective of Library for Natural Sciences RAS is to provide information support for fundamental research conducted in these organizations. The methods used to solve this problem are based on the extensive use of computer and network technologies. The results of Library for Natural Sciences activity in this area are the resources and services provided to users on the Library for Natural Sciences RAS website (http://benran.ru). The article describes basic materials presented on this website, including summary online Library for Natural Sciences RAS Centralized library system catalogues, Central Library image catalogue, system for the remote ordering of books, journals and copies of their fragments; systems of links to network resources “Natural Sciences in the Internet”, supported by Library for Natural Sciences specialists, problem-oriented information systems, formed by the Library for Natural Sciences staff.

Saint Petersburg Branch of the RAS Scientific Council on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research in 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Sergey F. Sergeev
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Synthesis ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The summary discusses the history, structure, and areas of activity of the Saint Petersburg branch of the Scientific Council on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The members of the Saint Petersburg branch are focused on practice, which is due to the predominance of researchers in the engineering and natural sciences. According to the author, the Council stimulates work related to interdisciplinary synthesis and convergence of the humanities and natural sciences in solving the problem of artificial intelligence.

Book Collections of European Military Libraries of the 18th — 19th Centuries in the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Vera I. Ryabova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Military Science ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Collections ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

It is known that the history of book collections of past centuries’ libraries, including military ones, is tragic: for many reasons, they are often either scattered or preserved in small fragments. Today, when libraries intensively work to digitize their holdings and search out historical book collections, it is very important to identify and attribute books from foreign, as well as from Russian military libraries.For the first time, the article describes the work carried out to identify publications of foreign (and partly Russian) military libraries from the rare books collection of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article considers the publications as a source of information about scientific knowledge (military libraries were aimed to acquaint their readers with the basics of military art and the latest achievements in military science). There is shown that the content of such libraries’ collections did not exclude thematic diversity, targeted to comprehensively form the officer’s personality: professional, moral and cultural. The article examines the books of the 18th—19th centuries from military libraries of Europe, currently stored in the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the book marks in them proving the publications’ belonging to specific military libraries. There is highlighted the importance of book marks for the attribution of collections (and libraries) that existed in the past, but turned out to be scattered. The results obtained show that the publications and book marks of military book collections are a strong and reliable source in studying the history of military affairs, military science, and the history of military libraries, and confirm the need for further serious work with the library’s rare book collection.

scholarly journals Seminar “Information Provision of Science: New Technologies” and the History of Library Automation

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Nikolay Е. Kalenov
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Library Automation ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The first professional standing Seminar “Information Provision of Science: New Technologies” has been held regularly since 1985. It is the platform for the library personnel, information workers and programmers to discuss the questions of development of the modern computer technologies for solution of library-information problems. Collections of materials of all seminars are published in printed form and presented on the website of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BEN RAS).The article considers the situation in the field of the development of computer technology, existed in the mid-1980-ies that caused the need to organize the Seminar. There are presented the results of the analysis of Seminar proceedings published in 1985—2017, allowing to trace the development of library automation in the country. There is estimated the frequency of usage in the headings of reports of different terms related to this problem, that characterizes the dynamics of changes of its main priorities. Thus, the term ECM was widely used in 1980-ies, since 1991 ceased to be used; the term “electronic library”, which appeared in the proceedings of Seminar in 1999, reached its peak use in the late 2000-s, and then became quite “usual”; now in the titles of reports it appears much less frequently.

scholarly journals Polskie książki z XVIII – pocz. XX w. w Jekaterynburgu

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Irina Poczyńskaja
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
New Findings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional History ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This article analyses Polish book collections in Ekaterinburg. The author has found such collections in four of the city’s libraries: the Sverdlovsk regional library, the Sverdlovsk regional history museum, the Central Academic Library of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Ural Law University. In the article, the history of how these collections were formed and their particularities are discussed, as are the fates of individual books. The largest collection (250 books at the Sverdlovsk regional library) has as its basis books from the libraries of the Catholic Church of St Anna and the Catholic Philanthropic Society. The foundation of the Polish collection at the Sverdlovsk regional history museum consists of books from the archive of the Ural Society for the Admirers of the Natural Sciences. This collection includes a total of 17 works: the earliest of them coming from the beginning of the 18th century. A further focused search for Polish books in the libraries of Ekaterinburg would probably result in new findings.

scholarly journals Some estimates of the book collection accession dynamics in the Library on Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Bibliosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
N. E. Kalenov
Keyword(s):  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Sharp Drop ◽  
Library Catalog ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
State Library ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The paper analyzes data on the flow of non-periodical publications entering the collections of the Centralized Library System headed by the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LNS RAS). The analysis is carried on for a five-year interval (2013-2017). It gives the general annual quantitative characteristics of domestic and foreign publications acquisition. The author shows a sharp drop in the number of incoming foreign, as well as translated publications, on natural sciences. The article presents the efficiency analysis of receipting publications on a legal copy (LC), which shows that the efficiency (a share of publications for the current year in LC flows), although slightly increasing over the past year, remains rather low. Publications of 2017 not received by LNS RAS in the LC flow have been identified, and their reconciliation with the Russian State Library catalog has been carried out.

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