News Informing on Open Science as a Strategic Direction for the Development of a Scientific Library

Abstract

News is the most accessible, timely and popular information in the world, it affects many spheres of social life and reflects their current state. News in the field of science is no exception. People were interested in news long before the widespread use of information technology, and some current forms of information and library services were introduced in the 20th century.Defining and strategizing the direction of news information is a significant part of information support for researchers. Scientific libraries, as important social institutions specializing in providing access to information, can contribute to the search for and provision of this kind of information. The basic principles of building a news strategy in modern libraries are the relevance of the news topic to the library’s vision and its relevance to the target audience, taking into account the use of modern information technologies. In a scientific library, open science can be used as such a topic due to its demand among researchers and specialists.The purpose of this article is to develop a set of information products designed to achieve information support of scientific library users (by the example of open science). A study of 100 websites of foreign university libraries included in the Top 100 Leiden ranking of universities’ openness in 2023 was carried out to identify the practices of news informing users about open science. Five best examples of foreign experience were identified. An important part of the information strategy — the technology of selecting channels for receiving information — was developed. On its basis, a set of information products was prepared and published on the website of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Library for Open Science”: news feed, quarterly digest “Open Science News” and issues of “Live News of Open Science” in video material.