Network analysis of personal and professional contacts of the creators of Soviet cosmonautics based on prosopographic and full-text databases

In the study the formation of interaction among the members of the “Chief Council” by the method of network analysis based on a prosopographic database and content analysis of the memories of the designers of Soviet cosmonautics.

Methodology of network analysis in historical research: the specificity of the topic and the source base of the research

In the research, an attempt is made to identify some of the features and trends in the application of network analysis in Russian historiography in relation to both research problems and types of sources. It is shown that in recent years there has been an increase in interest in working with large-scale thematic textual collections of data, which implies the use of a set of methods and technologies, including the creation of tabular and full-text databases, content analysis, network analysis and visualization of data and results.

American Sermons, Series 1 & 2, 1652‐1819

American Sermons is one of the latest offerings from Readex, which describes itself as a publisher of “many of the most widely used collections of primary source research materials in academic libraries” (<<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.readex.com/who-we-are-what-we-do">https://www.readex.com/who-we-are-what-we-do</ext-link>>). This database contains over 8,000 sermons and tools to analyze quickly across multiple original source documents.There are a handful of other sermon indexes and full-text databases, both Open Access and subscription-based; this product offers several robust and unique features that help to set it apart from others of its kind.

HOW TO CHOOSE A SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS DATABASE FOR THE NATIONAL SUBSCRIPTION: ONE OF THE APPROACHES

Introduction. The article is devoted to substantiating the choice of full-text databases of scientific journals for national subscription and, accordingly, companies providing access to such databases. The necessity of automating the selection of such databases and companies is substantiated. Previous studies on this topic have not been conducted.Materials and Methods. The article analyzes the activity of Kazakhstani scientists in three priority areas of scientific research for Kazakhstan: nanotechnology, regenerative medicine and robotics. The studies were conducted on arrays of articles and using the standard tools and functionality of Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection, the global citation indices.Results. The authors report the data on the Kazakhstan publication activity in the three priority areas: 68 and 60 articles of Kazakhstan researchers were analyzed, respectively, in Scopus and Web of Science. Nazarbaev University leads the publication rating in three priority areas with 32 publications indexed in Scopus. The international databases recommended for the national subscription and the companies, suppliers of the databases were identified. A new approach to justifying the choice of the repertoire of scientific journal databases for a national subscription is proposed and justified.Discussion and Conclusion. In order to provide full-fledged informational support for research and stimulate publication activity in such priority areas for Kazakhstan as nanotechnology, regenerative medicine and robotics, it is proposed to include in the national subscription the databases of scientific journals provided by IEEE, Springer and Wiley. In order to obtain search results by such criteria as publishers/aggregators, it is proposed to develop the tools for generating statistical reporting in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. It is suggested to automate the process of determining the popularity of the databases of scientific journals and their providers with the goal of national subscription to the full-text databases they supply.

LIBRARY FUNCTIONS IN SCIENTOMETRIC EVALUATION OF PUBLICATION ACTIVITY OF THE UNIVERSITY

The article reveals the experience of the Southern Federal University Scientific Library in accompanying the scientific and publishing activities of the university. The methods of conducting main library services are described, including that of the following areas: full-text databases access provision and user councelling, publication activity monitoring of the university and its subdivisions, identification of scientific publications in international citation bases. The experience of councelling university staff in forming a strategy of research results publication is given.

A Parser for News Downloads

ABSTRACT This paper presents the Download Parser, a tool for handling text downloads from large online databases. Many universities have access to full-text databases which allow the user to search their holdings and then view and ideally download the full text of relevant articles, but there are important problems in practice in managing such downloads, because of factors such as duplication, unevenness of formatting standards, lack of documentation. The tool under discussion was devised to parse downloads, clean them up and standardise them, identify headlines and insert suitably marked-up headers for corpus analysis.