Research and Publishing Activities of the Russian State Library in the Mirror of Bibliography and Scientometrics

Research and publishing activity is an essential part of functioning of the Russian State Library (RSL). Scientific activity of the Library includes three components: scientific-research, scientific-methodical and scientific-information activities, each of them results in the documents of certain types. Personnel scientific potential of the RSL is compound by the staff of four scientific departments, scientific workers from some other departments, as well as Doctors and Candidates of Sciences — professionals holding other positions. They publish books, articles in journals, as well as reports and papers in conference proceedings. RSL is one of the leading publishing centers in the field of librarianship. Currently there are published five periodicals; the publishing house “Pashkov Dom” publishes monographs, collected scientific papers and conference proceedings.

Creation of RSL bibliographic Indexes since the mid-2000s is one of the main activities of the Department of bibliography. The most complete is the updated electronic Index “Russian state library. Publications and electronic resources. Publications of employees”. Another specific form of bibliographing of the RSL publications and its employees is their reflection in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) on the portal eLIBRARY.RU. RSCI is both a scientometric tool and bibliographic resource. RSL provides to RSCI the bibliographic descriptions of all materials published in the journals “Bibliotekovedenie” (Library and Information Science) and “Observatory of Culture”, and selectively adds and corrects the descriptions of the RSL publications and publications of its employees. 

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2. Gosudarstvennaya ordena Lenina biblioteka SSSR im. V.I. Lenina: bibliogr. ukaz. [V.I. Lenin State Library of the USSR: bibliographical index]. Moscow, 1986, part 1: Literatura o Biblioteke (1862—1985 gg.) [Literature about the Library (1862—1985)], 324 p., part 2: Izdaniya Biblioteki (1962—1985 gg.) [Publications of the Library (1962—1985)], 190 p.

3. Rossiiskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka (Gosudarstvennaya biblioteka SSSR im. V.I. Lenina): bibliogr. ukaz., 1986—2000 [Russian State Library (V.I.Lenin State Library of the USSR): bibliographical index, 1986—2000]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2004, 411 p.

4. Rossiiskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka: bibliogr. ukaz., 2001—2005: Raboty sotrudnikov. Izd. RGB. Lit. o B-ke [Russian State Library: bibliographical index, 2001—2005: Works of Employees, Publications of the RSL, Literature about the Library]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2007, 286 p.

5. Rossiiskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka: bibliogr. ukaz., 2006—2010: Raboty sotrudnikov. Izd. RGB. Lit. o B-ke [Russian State Library: bibliographical index, 2006—2010: Works of Employees, Publications of the RSL, Literature about the Library]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2013, 398 p.

6. Rossiiskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka: Izdaniya i elektronnye resursy. Publikatsii sotrudnikov: bibliogr. ukaz., 2009—2016 [Russian State Library: Publications and Electronic Resources. Publications of Employees: bibliographical index, 2009—2016]. Moscow, 2017. Available at: http://www.rsl.ru/ru/s3/s331/ s122/s1229797 (accessed 15.09.2017).

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8. Raboty sotrudnikov Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki, 1985—2000 gg.: bibliogr. ukaz. [Works of Employees of the Russian State Library, 1985—2000: bibliographical index]. Moscow, 2003, 359 p.

9. Raboty sotrudnikov Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki, 2001—2005 gg.: bibliogr. ukaz. [Works of Employees of the Russian State Library, 2001—2005: bibliographical index]. Moscow, 2007, 210 p.

10. Levin G.L. Opyt raboty Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki s bibliograficheskoi bazoi dannykh nauchnogo tsitirovaniya (RINTs) [Experience of the Russian State Library with the Bibliographic Database of Scientific Citation (Russian Science Citation Index], Rumyantsevskie chteniya — 2017: 500-letie izdaniya pervoi slavyanskoi Biblii Frantsiska Skoriny: stanovlenie i razvitie kul’tury knigopechataniya: materialy mezhdunar. nauch.-prakt. konf. (18—19 apr. 2017) [Proceedings of the Int. Sci.-Prac. Conf. “The Rumyantsev Readings — 2017: The 500th Anniversary of Publication of the First Slavonic Bible of Francysk Skaryna: The Development of Printing Culture” (April 18—19, 2017). Part 1]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2017, part 1, pp. 334—339.

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