Abstract
The author discusses the most popular search services for science articles retrieval — which make the main information source for modem researchers. Based on the findings of the global sociological study of over 40,000 respondents, the services most popular with the users are compared. Among the most frequently used are: abstracted bibliographic databases, science retrieval services, global general search services, libraries’ www-sites, publishers’ www-sites, journals www-sites, and social networks. The author analyzes libraries’ potential for tuning popular services for the users to transit from brief article descriptions (bibliographic records) to their full texts available through subscriptions. To unify the exchange mode and formats, the requirements documents by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) regulate data exchange between content providers (publishers and aggregators), discovery services developers and the libraries. Integration of Russian journal resources into the global exchange infrastructure is hindered by incompleteness and inconsistency of the metadata being provided. Meanwhile such integration is vital for Russian science article visibility and citation. The author also emphasizes the importance of the standardized data exchange between Russian content providers, discovery services, and the libraries.
Highlights
In Russia the subscription of hundreds of Russian libraries is supported by state funding
It is possible with the help of global sociological surveys to obtain reliable
Generalized estimates showed the comparative popularity of different ways of users' movement
Summary
The author discusses the most popular search services for science articles retrieval — which make the main information source for modern researchers. Russian researchers have access to dozens of millions scientific articles on dozens of publishing platforms It is possible with the help of global sociological surveys to obtain reliable and unbiased information on the use of various "starting points" in the search for journal content. В качестве отправных точек для поиска в огромных массивах журнальных статей пользователи могут выбрать разнообразные сервисы: сайты библиотек, где есть электронный каталог, перечни доступных лицензионных ресурсов или сервисы discovery, обеспечивающие поиск по ЭК и лицензионным ресурсам через единый индекс; реферативно-библиографические базы данных широкого тематического спектра (Web of Science, Scopus) или специализированные БД по интересующей пользователя тематике (PubMed, Medline, MathSciNet и др.); сайты контент-провайдеров (издателей, агрегаторов, научных обществ); сайты конкретных журналов; социальные сети, особенно научные (Mendeley, Research Gate и др.); глобальные поисковые сервисы общего назначения (Google и подобные); научные поисковые сервисы (Google Scholar и подобные). Самые существенные отклонения от средних оценок по выборке в целом демонстрируют библиотекари – профессионалы поиска
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