Acoustics Open Information System

Abstract

The problems associated with the absence in the Russian Federation of a single center for the collection and provision of information on Russian-language scientific publications are discussed. A technological scheme is proposed that is useful in creating such a center. The cluster of this center is described via example of acoustic topics, already implemented at the Department of Acoustics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University. The corresponding Acoustics portal (http://akdata.ru) is publicly available on the Internet. Entrance points of the portal are the following: the full-text archive of the Acoustics Journal, “Signal Information” on acoustics, and “Information Retrieval System ‘Acoustics’. Russian-language sources”. Work with the system is described. Scientometric data from analyzing the information content of the system are presented for journals, headings, and authors. Bradford’s Law of Scattering of scientific publications is verified using acoustics topics. A list of authors demonstrating publication activity in the field of acoustics is given.