New means of scholar communication and their impact on research libraries resources forming

The peculiarities of modern scientific information flow and the resulting problems for a research library as the element in the scholar communication system are shown. The peculiarities of modern scientific information flow and the resulting problems for a research library as the element in the scholar communication system are shown. Possible to identify some common features of new forms of scientific publications: electronic communications are developing in all scientific areas, they are largely shaped by traditional publishing culture, the majority of electronic documents continues to be a scientific texts, but also includes multimedia technology and network tools. Clustering is made of materials that many documents have been included in certain groups, which requires a search strategy and selection. Electronic resources have new qualities: the satisfaction of a wide range of information needs, the ease of use of resources readers may retrospective content, access to resources for users not only from the library building. At the same time, the management of electronic resources selected for the library collection, complicated management of traditional resources, since freedom in the organization of electronic resources, their use and storage can be significantly limited by various conditions: availability, archiving capabilities, licensing regime and so on. Rapidly developing types and kinds of scientific publications in the electronic environment affect the entire system of scholarly communication, that is, and research libraries. The library environment changes significantly under the influence of electronic resources. First of all, it is the replacement of traditional resources for their acquisition of ownership for licensing access to resources, usually temporary. At the same time, the management of electronic resources selected for the library collection, complicated management of traditional resources, since freedom in the organization of electronic resources, their use and storage can be significantly limited by various conditions: availability, archiving capabilities, licensing regime and so on. Digital collections as solid product, is a unity of content, technology platform, search capabilities, reduce the possibility of integrating these resources with the composition of the fund. We have to admit that libraries have not yet found effective ways of working with the latest communication tools. But «on the way» the next question. It is predicted that the structure, organization and presentation of knowledge (information) will become one big interconnected, bright, global living organism, consisting of concepts, ideas and facts.

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