Information provision support of the Siberian region research institutions, members of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, Russia: some results of the study

Abstract

The article offers the analysis of scientific resources provision for the Siberian region research institutions, members of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FASO Russia), the study being done in 2016. Identified were bottlenecks in the system of resources provision for Siberian research institutions and universities within the frameworks of grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Presented is the data on provision by national and foreign information resources after the disintegration of the centralized library acquisitions system of the Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch. The level of the information resources provision is recognized insufficient. The authors identify future directions for the development of the newly emerging structure of the FASO organizations information provision system in the context of a competitive system of foreign e-resources subscriptions provision. The study concludes that under the conditions of the new type centralization of the resources provision process the system of subscription distributions has not been fully formed on regional and institutional levels.