All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information

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http://www.viniti.ru
Manish Chandra
M.Lib.I.Sc.-Lucknow
University
PGDLAN-IGNOU

2. 1. About VINITI
2. Goals of VINITI
3. Tasks
4. Features of VINITI
5. Organisation
6. Main information products
 VINITI’s Abstract Journal – RZh
 VINITI’s Abstract Database
 VINITI’s Electronic Abstract Journal - e-RZh
7. Other information products
8. Main sources of primary information for VINITI’s products and services
9. Main channels of foreign journals input flow for VINITI’s products
10. Some statistics about annual input document flow for VINITI’s information products
11. VINITI’s Library Collection
12. Library and Information Services
13. VINITI’s users
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3.  VINITI was founded in 1952 by Russian Academy of
Sciences (RAS);
 Since that time, the leading information center is in former
Soviet Union (USSR), and now in Russia and CIS countries
;
 Today it is one of the main producers of scientific and
technical information in the world;
 It produces the information products in print and electronic
forms.
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4.  Currently, there are about 400 research institutes affiliated to the
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS);
 Of these, VINITI occupies a special place as a leading agency in
information processing;
 VINITI’s main goal was to facilitate access to world achievements in
science and technology for the USSR research and engineering
community;
 To implement this task, VINITI had to process, publish and disseminate
comprehensive information related to basic and applied research;
 To expand the Institute’s activity and to ensure variety of its tasks, the
Government reorganized it into the All-Union Institute for Scientific and
Technical Information in 1955.
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5.  VINITI began to process scientific literature and to publish
Journal Abstracts (JA) from 1953;
 Its publications were used by a variety of research
institutions, design bureaus and industrial enterprises;
 The main task of the Institute is to provide researchers,
designers and engineers with information on the latest
achievements in science and technology around the world;
 To produce the information products and services on the
basis of world and Russian scientific & technical
publications.
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6.  VINITI collects & creates abstracts and stores all scientific and
technical materials which were not published anywhere
(deposited manuscripts, dissertations, etc.);
 VINITI develops software for advanced information processing
(For example search engines, automatic translation systems,
intellectual indexing and abstracting systems, etc.);
 It also provides information services on the basis of own and
foreign information products and literature collections in print
and electronic forms.
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7.  VINITI is functioning as the central USSR repository
and clearing house for scientific and technical
information,
 It coordinates thousands of Documentation and
Information Centres with a highly complex central
organization utilizing the service of hundreds of
specialists and thousands of abstractors & translators
under the following well-defined units:
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8. 1. Scientific and Technical information Group
2. Scientific analysis and Information Group
3. Scientific and Technical Bibliography Group
4. Editorial and Publishing Group
5. Organisation and Method Group
6. Translation Group
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9.  Abstract Journal in print form –
VINITI’s RZh
 Abstract Database –
VINITI’s DB
 Abstract Journal in electronic form–
VINITI’s e-RZh
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10.  Published since 1952 continuously;
 Periodical publication with monthly or bimonthly issues;
 Annually includes about 1 million indexed documents as
abstracts, summaries and bibliography of scientific and
technical primary publications;
 Sources from 130 countries in 66 languages;
 Includes 70% - foreign documents, 30% - Russian
documents;
 Consists of 28 summary subject volumes with 208
sections, each of which is issued independently as well,
plus 41 subject sections not included in summary
volumes.
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11.  Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
 Earth Sciences (Geology, Geophysics, Geography, Mining)
 Environmental Science
 Life Sciences and Medicine
 Mathematics and Computer Science
 Physics and Astronomy
 Automatic Equipment and Electronics (including
Computers, Radio Engineering, Communications)
 Electrical Engineering and Energy
 Mechanical Engineering
 Metallurgy and Welding
 Transport and Logistics
 Economics and Management
 Information and Library Science
 Printing and Publishing
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12.  One of the world largest documental database;
 Contains about more than 28 million records;
 19 subject divisions as separate DB;
 Multidisciplinary file joining all divisions;
 Main distribution - online access on VINITI’s Internet-
platform with monthly updating;
 Different selects on the user’s requests on CD-, DVD-
ROM’s or FTP.
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13. Full analogue of RZh in print form
Issued since 1995 in DOS and Windows
Friendly user interface with broad search
possibilities:
a) browse of content of the issue;
b) listing it from page to page;
c) search using subject and author indexes;
d) subject and author search on all textual fields
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14.  Review publications, including periodical reviews and
irregular issues of special publication;
 Express information Bulletins;
 Problem-oriented abstract and information periodicals
(collected papers, bulletins);
 Bibliographic periodical index and Deposited scientific
manuscripts;
 Periodicals and monographs on the theory and practice of
scientific and technical information.
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15.  Periodicals and Serials:- in print and electronic forms (main
source-70-75%) of all information included in VINITI’s
products;
 Books:- monographs, collected papers, reports of scientific
conferences, textbooks for institutions of higher education
etc.
 Deposited scientific manuscripts:- “grey literature” type of
documents.
 Other documents:- patents, standards, dissertations etc.
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16.  Literature sent free from publishers for coverage - 31%
 Online full-text resources - 22%
 Free of charge - 15%
 International Book Exchange - 12%
 Using the collections of other libraries - 10%
 Subscription on print or print+online forms - 4%
 Other - 10%
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17.  Total volume of input flow - more than 2,00000 documents
 Foreign journals and serials – about 6000 titles and 37,000
issues - from more than 130 countries in 66+ languages
 Russian journals and serials - about 3500 titles and 23,000
issues
 Russian books – about 20,000 copies
 Author preprints of Russian dissertations – 19,000 copies
 Foreign books and thesis –1500 copies
 Patents and other documents – more than 1,00000 copies
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18. Total volume - 2 million documents, including:
- Foreign journals – 8,00,000 issues
- Russian journals – 1,90,000 issues
- Russian books – 2,90,000 copies
- Foreign books – 35,000 copies
- Deposited manuscripts – more than 2,00,000 documents
- Microfilms and microfiches – more than 1,85,000 copies
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19.  Library service for individual internal and external users with primary
documents and their copies in print and electronic forms on the basis of
VINITI’s collection of literature and accessible electronic resources;
 Information service:
- supporting of online access to VINITI’s DB
- providing with secondary (abstract and bibliographic) subject
information of individual users and organizations according to
their requests on the basis of VINITI’s and foreign DB and
online resources
- other forms of information service
 Document Delivery Service with copies of documents in print and
electronic forms
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20.  Scientific Research Organizations of Russian Academy of
Sciences
 Institutions of Higher Education – Institutes, Universities,
Academies
 Industrial Enterprises
 Commercial and Private Limited Companies
 Government Organizations
 Individual Users – scientists and specialists, lecturers,
postgraduates, students and others
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21.  Yashukova, Svetlana. ALL-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE of SCIENTIFIC and
TECHNICAL INFORMATION of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(VINITI RAN),Russia.(ppt)
www.viniti.ru/download/english/viniti.ppt
 Markusova, Valentina. All Russian Institute For Scientific And Technical
Information (Viniti) Of The Russian Academy Of Sciences
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3544321/
 Parida, B.(1993) Studies on Information Systems, Services and
Progragrammes, New Delhi: Ajanta.
 Gupta, B.M. and S.S. Nathan(1990), Handbook of libraries, aechives and
information centres in India, Delhi: Aditya.
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