Domestic electronic resources space

Abstract

Nowadays libraries evolve online resources in acquisition of their stocks as a measure to fill the gap with printed resources. A variety of numerous Russian publishing electronic products, designed to provide users’ needs, can be desсribed as a general space of Russian electronic resources. The collection development of electronic resources requires studying these products content and technological properties, acquisition financial terms, elaborating stocks development strategy. To provide Russian online resources investigation, the author has collected information at websites of publishers and distributors, tested online products, analyzed the sites of central libraries of Russian regions using network resources. Based on the data about Russian online resources, the paper identifies groups of resource publishers, describes ways to inform about network resources and some characteristics of electronic resources affecting their selection. Publishers and distributors produce commercial and non-commercial online resources of scientific-educational organizations in the fields of their activity, collections of retrospective free access publications creating by holders eventually or in frames of thematic collections, open access resources. The legislative support for providing the educational process with electronic publications influenced of Russian online resources development that provided the creation of such resources group as electronic library systems. The article shows methods to form the content of electronic library systems, services they provide, access to various categories of users. At present, introducing electronic resources in the process of collections acquisition, and changing requirements for libraries have a huge impact on the activities of publishers and aggregators aimed at changing the principles of collection forming, services extension, tools development of federated search for Russian network resources.