Vol 43, No 1 (2016)

The directions of the development and implementation of the new scientific and information policy of the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences are considered. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potential of the Institute as a multifunctional information center that widely uses modern information and communications technologies and electronic information resources. Promising approaches are considered to deeper processing of information, multivariate analysis of collected data, and the possibility of establishing the actual types of information products and services that are focused on decision support in scientific, technical, and industrial applications, and, indirectly, in the economy as a whole.

This paper justifies the relevance of the reliable protection of information and the development of measures to reduce information risks in libraries with comprehensive information resources. A brief description of the objects of protection and the main threats, including those that are related to the processing of personal data, is provided. It is alleged that analysis of models of the business processes of a library makes it possible to track the impacts of changes on many aspects of information security. The position of the information system for security analysis of the business process in the overall system of information security is determined. Steps for the formalization and updating of the rights of access to information resources of a library are illustrated. It is emphasized that the basic document for information-security risk management is a threat model that reflects the data on sources of threats and vulnerabilities of the system, impacted objects, and a number of other parameters. A block diagram that illustrates the process of analyzing the threats and vulnerabilities and a knowledge meta-model for the management of information-security risks are provided. It is concluded that based on the relationship of business processes that are reflected in a formal notation it is possible to automatically obtain the data on the degree of influence of security aspects of information objects of a particular sub-process on the results of business processes of a higher level, and as a result, on the achievability of the purposes of an organization.

Document theory is the least explored area of study about documents. It lags significantly behind applied document research, which summarizes various document processing practices that have accumulated for thousands of years. This problem has recently been complicated by the rise of so-called general document theories. The boundaries of the document concept have become blurred due to the development of parallel areas of study and their forced differentiation into “classic” and “library” document science. In addition, knowledge about objects that are referred to as documents that can neither be properly integrated nor applied in practice is being developed. This situation is mainly due to the lack of attention that is paid by document scientists to the theoretical and methodological issues of document science. This paper reviews the origins, nature, and the social roles of documents from the perspective of a synergetic paradigm and has the goal of constructing a synergetic document theory.

This paper gives a review of foreign and Russian publications on the application of cloud technologies in the work of libraries. The advantages and disadvantages of introducing cloud computing in library practice are analyzed. The opinions of library staff on cloud technologies and the potential for their use is presented. The experience of the most popular cloud librarian systems is considered.

This article describes the experience in editing organization profiles in Scopus and in the Science Index for organizations system, which is an add-on to the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). The basic functionalities of the two systems are analyzed and comparison of the Science Index for organizations with the possibilities of editing an organization profile in Scopus is carried out. An attempt is made to give an objective assessment of the current state of the two systems from the user’s point of view. The conclusion is made that despite the more extensive functionalities of the Science Index for organizations, the feedback system in Scopus is well thought out and provides better control of changes that are requested by organizations. In the system of editing the profile of an organization in the RSCI the functional tools are characterized by a low level of moderation, which has a formal character; therefore, it can be used not only to edit a profile, but to create unreasonable increases in the values of bibliometric indicators.