The main means of providing access to the results of scientific research are considered. The study analyzes statistics that clearly demonstrate the main trends in the field of scientific communications on a global scale.

This scientific article discusses the topic of creation and keep up to date the internet portal of a network library, using the example of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LNS RAS).

Neural networks have come to process huge amounts of information, extract its essence, compose a coherent text on their basis that cannot be distinguished from a human one, and conduct a conversation, taking context into account.

The reasons for the inaccessibility of scientific publications for scientists are analysed, a description of the process of formation of the idea of open access is given, and an overview of the current state of affairs in publishing scientists' achievements in open access is given.

Neural networks have learned to process huge amounts of information, extract the essence from them, compose a coherent text on their basis that cannot be distinguished from a human one, and conduct a conversation taking into account the context.

The article describes the cloud corporate cataloguing system used in LNS RAS, also provides statistics on the borrowing of bibliographic records from this system by various research institutions.

This collection contains materials from the scientific and practical conference '50 Years for the Benefit of Russian Science', focusing on information and resource support for scientific activity in the context of digital transformation.

In the monograph, O.P. Neretin considers intellectual sovereignty to be an integral, complex concept comprising diverse legal, personnel, managerial, financial, scientific and technological instruments for supporting and developing the institution of intellectual property.

This collection contains materials from the International Scientific and Practical Conference, 'The Electronic Age of Science', focusing on information and resource support for scientific activity in the context of digital transformation.

The hypothesis for possibility to organize the promotion of certain information resources among library readers by analogy of search results in Internet search engines is substantiated. Some examples of experiments that influenced readers’ strategies for finding and reading documents are provided.

On 17 February 2018, Vladimir Putin signed a resolution in response to a letter from Russian presidential aide Igor Shchegolev containing four points. The implementation of these points should improve the functioning of the National Electronic Library (NEL).

Interview with Oleg Shoriny, one of the conference organisers and Deputy Director of the National Library of Russia for Informatisation

Abstract of a dissertation submitted for the degree of Candidate of Computer Science in the speciality of Mathematical and Software Support for Computers, Complexes, and Computer Networks (05.13.11).

In the course of implementation of the National electronic library project there is an issue of consolidation of electronic catalogs of various libraries from all over the country.

In order to automate the processing of data collected in the National Electronic Library, these data need to be published in an open electronic format that permits for interrelations between different entities to be taken into account.

The present paper discusses the use of a function belonging to the locality-sensitive hashing family, with additional optimisations, for the identification of duplicate bibliographic records.

The National Electronic Library (NEL) project has been under development since 2004. Initially, only two libraries participated in the project: the National Library of Russia and the Russian State Library.

Implementation of the project on semantic integration of bibliographic records has allowed to solve urgent problems: there is developed domain ontology and created modules of interaction with a variety of automated library information systems; bibliographic records converted from different formats into RDF, enriched using the information obtained from different sources, and released in accordance with the principles of Linked Open Data.

The author reveals modern technological breakthroughs in the search for information: Google, Apple, social networks.

The Russian State Library and the National Library of Russia launched a joint project aimed at publishing the library data of the libraries that are the members of the National Digital Library, in accordance with the principles of Linked Open Data. This project will provide access to bibliographic information stored in several of the largest libraries of Russia, in the form suitable for automatic processing. The data set consists of tens of millions of records.

The paper deals with the problems of integration of bibliographic records in frame of the task of integration of data from the National Library of Russia and the Britain National Library as a part of the Linked Open Data space. In course of solving the problem a prototype system has been constructed, through which the data format RUSMARC may be published in the Linked Open Data and linked to other library data.

The Russian State Library and the National Library of Russia launched a joint project, the aim of which is to publish the library in accordance with the principles of Linked Open Data. This project will provide access to bibliographic information stored in a number of the largest libraries of Russia, in a form suitable for machine processing. The data set consists of several tens of millions of records.

The authors offer to familiarize themselves with the position of the specialists of the Russian National Library on the standardization of electronic documents, including the formulation of the problem, the approach to the problem situation and proposals for the selection of concepts and the formulation of definitions.

The article is devoted to standardization in the acquisition, processing, storage and copying of electronic documents in libraries.

Russian State Library, the second world largest library, provides access to and stores the immense amount of electronic materials. Within this context, the Library has to solve a range of problems. Firstly, the electronic copies of scanned originals have to be reliably stored. Secondly, patrons are to be provided with safe access to them. Thirdly, each technological process of handling acquired documents is to be automated. «Shoft» Company has designed and implemented the software complex to solve these problems.

This paper is dedicated to the project of Russian State Library distributed depository using the grid data technologies. The task of this project is to consolidate the Library's available disk space. The main difficulty on this way is to ensure permanent availability of data in conditions of unreliable storage media (computers may go down occasionally, and the data may be deleted or corrupted) and to reach such an extent of transparency for the users that will make their work with the depository no more complicated than with the file systems.