The open science infrastructure in Russia and the world
The article gives an overview of open access projects that form the new infrastructure for scientific communication. It provides information on initiatives and programs contributing to the development of open science in Russia and in the world. The paper also describes innovative scientific projects and platforms that significantly accelerate exchange of information and communication between scientists and create new opportunities for their cooperation and for society.The scientific novelty of the article consists in the distinction between the notions of ‘publication’ and ‘article’ or ‘edition’ in the context of scientific communication and the work of libraries, the description of the challenges that the new media era puts behind the system of scientific communications and libraries, and Russian projects, which aim to solve the described problems.The system of scientific communication has transformed significantly over the past two decades, alternative channels of information exchange are beginning to play a leading role and become the competitors of the traditional media (scientific journals), which have converted into electronic form, but still remain rooted in the past, supported by the inertia of administration of science.In Russia the achievements of open science are still much too modest compared to Europe, but the necessary background has already been created by libraries and non-for-profit organizations. Further development of such projects will depend on whether government, libraries and universities could use these instruments and the capabilities of the new media, reorienting to a new paradigm of access to scientific information.