VINITI Database RAS
Encyclopedia
VINITI Database RAS is the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information database. It is described as a large abstracting database. In general, it is indexed for the natural sciences, exact sciences, and technical science
s. Included in this database is AJ (Abstract Journal), indexed from 1981 to the present day.
The database
is made up of published materials encompassing, conference proceedings, trade publications, thesis
, periodicals, books, patents, regulatory documents, and collected scientific literature
. Russian sources make up 30% of the deposited scientific works. The database produces document
s that have a bibliographal
description, keywords
, a heading and an abstract
. Primary source
abstracts are mostly in Russian
.
Another organizational structure of the VINITI database is its divisions into 29 thematic
fragments. Also, there are over 230 editions of this database. A single Polythematic database was added in 2001, which is able to combine all the thematic fragments, except for "Mathematics
". In addition, the thematic fragment, "Chemistry
", is updated two times per month.
information from sources throughout the world, and also chartered to disseminate it to the Soviet and socialist scientific community. By 1992 technical and scientific documents had been amassed from more than 100 countries in 60 languages, and available for dissemination. It had become the largest single source of secondary scientific and technical information in the world. 31 million citations indexed literature
from 1953 to 1992. Much of the former Soviet database contained materials unique to the Eastern bloc
scientific community
, which was just then being made available to U.S.A., U.K., Western Europe
and Japanese
scientists and researcher
s.
In 1952 the Presidium
of the USSR Academy of Sciences made a decision to set up the Scientific Information Institute in the framework of the Academy of Sciences. The main task of the Institute was to organize the informational support of basic science by centralizing the analysis, searching, and processing of information. The Government reorganized the Institute into the All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI) in 1955. VINITI began to cover not only basic science, but also applied science.
By 2002, VINITI is a team of highly skilled professionals processing more than one million scientific publications annually. It is the largest on-line data bank in Russia, which contains more than 25 million documents, The database contains the Abstract Journal, which is distributed, subscribed to, and read by scientists in sixty countries, with more than 330 titles of publications, which cover all fields of basic and applied sciences.In 2002, VINITI is noted for having more than 240 databases on science and technology, economics, and medicine. In addition it has powerful retrieval systems, and a wide range of services.
that is deposited at the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI).
"Overview",
"Express Info",
"Abstract collections",
"Information Collections",
"Newsletters".
. Analytical content and synthesis of data is included in this collection. Survey information produced by VINITI RAS is in the following publications:
. This includes abstracts for books, dissertations, patent documents
, analysis
, overview, and deposited scientific works published in the Abstract Journal of VINITI RAS, . Abstract collections publishes the following issues:
, and analysis on foreign documents. The foreign works are characterized as scientific, technical, legal
and economics literature, focused and related to a defined area of science and technology. Information Collections publishes the following issues:
), which has been published since 1952. The Abstracts Journal is made up of reviews and abstracts of various published materials in particular areas: books, scientific research papers, patent documents, regulatory information, technical papers, trade publications, foreign dissertations, and cartographic publications.
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
s. Included in this database is AJ (Abstract Journal), indexed from 1981 to the present day.
The database
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
is made up of published materials encompassing, conference proceedings, trade publications, thesis
Thesis
A dissertation or thesis is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings...
, periodicals, books, patents, regulatory documents, and collected scientific literature
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
. Russian sources make up 30% of the deposited scientific works. The database produces document
Document
The term document has multiple meanings in ordinary language and in scholarship. WordNet 3.1. lists four meanings :* document, written document, papers...
s that have a bibliographal
Bibliography
Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
description, keywords
Keywords
Keywords are the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author's reasoning. While they are used primarily for rhetoric, they are also used in a strictly grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, and comprehension...
, a heading and an abstract
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
. Primary source
Primary source
Primary source is a term used in a number of disciplines to describe source material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being studied....
abstracts are mostly in Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
.
Another organizational structure of the VINITI database is its divisions into 29 thematic
Thematic relation
In a number of theories of linguistics, thematic relations is a term used to express the role that a noun phrase plays with respect to the action or state described by a sentence's verb. For example, in the sentence "Susan ate an apple", Susan is the doer of the eating, so she is an agent; the...
fragments. Also, there are over 230 editions of this database. A single Polythematic database was added in 2001, which is able to combine all the thematic fragments, except for "Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
". In addition, the thematic fragment, "Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
", is updated two times per month.
Purpose of VINITI
VINITI is name for the Russian, and formerly Soviet, organization, All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information . It was established in 1952 as a branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. At its inception VINITI was tasked with gathering scientific and technicalTechnology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
information from sources throughout the world, and also chartered to disseminate it to the Soviet and socialist scientific community. By 1992 technical and scientific documents had been amassed from more than 100 countries in 60 languages, and available for dissemination. It had become the largest single source of secondary scientific and technical information in the world. 31 million citations indexed literature
Bibliography
Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
from 1953 to 1992. Much of the former Soviet database contained materials unique to the Eastern bloc
Eastern bloc
The term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...
scientific community
Scientific community
The scientific community consists of the total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions. It is normally divided into "sub-communities" each working on a particular field within science. Objectivity is expected to be achieved by the scientific method...
, which was just then being made available to U.S.A., U.K., Western Europe
Western Europe
Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...
and Japanese
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
scientists and researcher
Researcher
A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in general any systematic investigation to establish facts. Researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, or private institutions.-Examples of research institutions:...
s.
In 1952 the Presidium
Presidium
The presidium or praesidium is the name for the heading organ of various legislative and organizational bodies.-Historical usage:...
of the USSR Academy of Sciences made a decision to set up the Scientific Information Institute in the framework of the Academy of Sciences. The main task of the Institute was to organize the informational support of basic science by centralizing the analysis, searching, and processing of information. The Government reorganized the Institute into the All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI) in 1955. VINITI began to cover not only basic science, but also applied science.
By 2002, VINITI is a team of highly skilled professionals processing more than one million scientific publications annually. It is the largest on-line data bank in Russia, which contains more than 25 million documents, The database contains the Abstract Journal, which is distributed, subscribed to, and read by scientists in sixty countries, with more than 330 titles of publications, which cover all fields of basic and applied sciences.In 2002, VINITI is noted for having more than 240 databases on science and technology, economics, and medicine. In addition it has powerful retrieval systems, and a wide range of services.
Scientific literature deposited at VINITI
The following is a sample of the scientific literatureScientific literature
Scientific literature comprises scientific publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural and social sciences, and within a scientific field is often abbreviated as the literature. Academic publishing is the process of placing the results of one's research into the...
that is deposited at the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI).
Peer reviewed journals
- Materials Science, Springer New York. Materials Science is a translation of the peer reviewPeer reviewPeer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
ed Ukrainian journal Fizyko-Khimichna Mekhanika Materialiv.
- Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A ( (Zhurnal fizicheskoi khimii). MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica (publisher). 2010. It was established in 1930.
Separate editions of VINITI
The separate editions of this database are respectively entitled: "Scientific and scientific-technical journals and collections","Overview",
"Express Info",
"Abstract collections",
"Information Collections",
"Newsletters".
Scientific and scientific-technical journals and collections
The following issues are published in Scientific and scientific-technical journals and collections:- Problems safety
- Integrated Logistics
- Chemical and Biological Safety
- Membranes. A series of "Critical Technology"
- International Forum on Information
- Scientific and technical information. Series 1. "Organization and methods of work"
- Scientific and technical information. Series 2. "Information Processes and Systems"
Overview
Overview is a periodical published 12 times per annum. It is a depository for one or several survey papers in a particular field of science and technologyTechnology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
. Analytical content and synthesis of data is included in this collection. Survey information produced by VINITI RAS is in the following publications:
- Scientific and technical aspects of environmental protection
- Problems of the Environment and Natural Resources
- Environmental Assessment
- Environmental Economics
- Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications
- Thematic reviews
Express Info
Express information is a periodical publication which is made up of detailed abstracts of what is considered to be significant scientific and technical documents. This published in Russia and abroad. Express information publishes the following issues:- Testing and measuring technology
- Saving technologies
- Legal issues of environmental protection
- Packaging. Containers
- Management, Logistics and Informatics in Transport
Abstract collections
Abstract collections is a periodic, abstracting service for domestic and foreign, scientific and technical, literatureScientific literature
Scientific literature comprises scientific publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural and social sciences, and within a scientific field is often abbreviated as the literature. Academic publishing is the process of placing the results of one's research into the...
. This includes abstracts for books, dissertations, patent documents
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
, analysis
Analysis
Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle , though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.The word is...
, overview, and deposited scientific works published in the Abstract Journal of VINITI RAS, . Abstract collections publishes the following issues:
- Energy Savings
- Clinical Endocrinology
- Radiodiagnosis
- Medical work
- Psychiatry
Information Collections
Information Collections is also a periodical which publishes detailed abstractsScientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
, and analysis on foreign documents. The foreign works are characterized as scientific, technical, legal
Law review
A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association...
and economics literature, focused and related to a defined area of science and technology. Information Collections publishes the following issues:
- The safety and emergencies
- Transportation: science, technology, management
- Federal and regional programs Russia
- Economics of Contemporary Russia
- Cardiovascular Surgery
- News of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
- Emergency Medicine. Office of Disaster Medicine
Newsletters
Newsletters publishes the following issues:- Bulletin of the international scientific congresses, conferences, congresses, exhibitions
- The foreign press about the economic, scientific-technical and military potential of the CIS member states and the technical means to detect. Series: 1, 2, 3.
- Economics and Management in Foreign Countries
- Crime abroad
Deposited scientific works
This separate edition contains the "Bibliographic Index". The bibliographic index contains bibliographic descriptions of scientific papers, deposited at VINITI RAS and industry centers.Thematic fragments
The 29 thematic fragments, mentioned above, are broad subject fields (categories) such as the following:- Automation and electronics AB 1981
- Astronomy AU 1989
- Biology BI 1981
- Computational Science
- Engineering MN 1981
- Medicine MD 1998
- Metallurgy MT 1981
- Physics FI 1983
Subcategories
These broad subject fields are each further divided into subfields. For example, Astronomy (Au) encompasses:- AS01 Astronomy (51)
- Retrospective from 1989
- This subfield includes ordinary inquiries involving astronomyAstronomyAstronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
. Moreover, this subfield includes theoretical aspects of astronomyAstronomyAstronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
and celestial mechanicsCelestial mechanicsCelestial mechanics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of celestial objects. The field applies principles of physics, historically classical mechanics, to astronomical objects such as stars and planets to produce ephemeris data. Orbital mechanics is a subfield which focuses on...
. Methods of astronomical observations, along with observatories, instruments, and devices are categorized here. This subfield also indexes documents related to the following: SunSunThe Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
, Solar systemSolar SystemThe Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
, StarStarA star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...
, Nebulae, Interstellar mediumInterstellar mediumIn astronomy, the interstellar medium is the matter that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. This matter includes gas in ionic, atomic, and molecular form, dust, and cosmic rays. It fills interstellar space and blends smoothly into the surrounding intergalactic space...
, and CosmologyCosmologyCosmology is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole. Cosmologists seek to understand the origin, evolution, structure, and ultimate fate of the Universe at large, as well as the natural laws that keep it in order...
. Also: AstrometryAstrometryAstrometry is the branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. The information obtained by astrometric measurements provides information on the kinematics and physical origin of our Solar System and our Galaxy, the Milky...
and AstronAstron (spacecraft)Astron was a Soviet spacecraft launched on 23 March 1983 at 12:45:06 UTC, using Proton launcher, which was designed to fulfill an astrophysics mission. It was based on the Venera spacecraft design and was operational for six years as the largest ultraviolet space telescope during its lifetime...
.
- AS03 Study of Earth from space (73)
- Retrospective from 1989
- This subfield includes general issues in Earth observation such as the physical, geometric, geodynamic framework of Earth from space, along with methods and tools for studies of Earth from space. Documents from research programs and papers concerning their objectives are indexed in this subfield. Papers pertaining to the space systems of earth, and documents which place space information under the purview of the Earth Sciences and economic sectors are available in this subfield. Economics and cost-effectiveness studies of the Earth from space are part of this subfield.
- AS02 Surveying and aerial photography (52)
- Retrospective from 1989
- This subfield includes ordinary inquiries involving GeodesyGeodesyGeodesy , also named geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space. Geodesists also study geodynamical phenomena such as crustal...
and CartographyCartographyCartography is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.The fundamental problems of traditional cartography are to:*Set the map's...
. Moreover, this subfield includes theoretical studies of Geodesy. The subfield also indexes the following: Geodetic Astronomy, Space geodesy, Gravimetry, and geodetic methods for solving geodynamic problems. The results of geodetic measurements are given mathematical interpretations. Surveying Instruments, and their study are also included.
- This subfield also includes documents about studying and mapping the Moon's size, shape, surface topography, and its gravitational and magnetic fields. In other words, determining by observation and measurement, the exact positions of points and the figures and areas of large portions of the moon's surface, or the shape and size of the moon, i.e., "Selenodesy". These methods are applied to other planets as well.
- AS04 Space exploration (62)
- Retrospective from 1989
- This subfield includes ordinary inquiries involving space exploration.
VINITI publications
VINITI publishes the Abstracts Journal series (Russian: Referativny ZhurnalReferativny Zhurnal
Referativny Zhurnal is a Russian scientific journal dedicated to announcements, summary, and review of scientific information. It is published by VINITI since 1952. Every year there are 28 volumes, 224 issues in total...
), which has been published since 1952. The Abstracts Journal is made up of reviews and abstracts of various published materials in particular areas: books, scientific research papers, patent documents, regulatory information, technical papers, trade publications, foreign dissertations, and cartographic publications.
External links
- Theme of the database VINITI RAS Google translation required for English.
- Largest chemical reaction database available for in-house use. Information Today. Vol 9.No.7 (July–August 1992): page 12(1).