VINITI (russian: ВИНИТИ; All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information; russian: Всероссийский институт научной и технической информации former All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) is a subsidiary of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...

devoted to gathering scientific and technical information from sources throughout the world and disseminating this information to the Russian scientific community. It was established in 1952 as the Institute for Scientific Information (russian: Институт научной информации). Its founder was Alexander Nesmeyanov. Its main office is in Moscow, and its publishing house is in

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. The Institute publishes

Referativny Zhurnal ''Referativny Zhurnal'' (or ''Referativnyi Zhurnal'') (russian: "Реферати́вный журна́л", lit. ''Review Journal'') are the first two words of the titles of over a hundred different abstracting magazines (journals). They ...

("The Abstract Journal") and produces the

VINITI Database RAS VINITI Database RAS is a database provided by the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI). The database is devoted to scientific publications. It is described as a large abstracting database. In general, it is index ...

Purpose

VINITI is the name for the

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

n, and formerly

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

, organization, ''All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information''. It was established in 1952 as a branch of the

USSR Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

. At its inception, it was tasked with gathering

scientific Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

and technical information from sources throughout the world, and to disseminate this information to the Soviet and

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

scientific community. By 1992, technical and scientific documents had been amassed from more than 100 countries, in 60 languages, available for dissemination, and the Institute had become the largest single source of secondary scientific and technical information in the world, with 31 million citations from indexed literature from 1953–1992. Much of the former Soviet database contained materials unique to the Eastern bloc

scientific community The scientific community is a diverse network of interacting scientists. It includes many " sub-communities" working on particular scientific fields, and within particular institutions; interdisciplinary and cross-institutional activities are als ...

, which was just then being made available to American, British, Western European, and Japanese scientists and

researcher Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness t ...

s. General OneFile. Web. (pay wall) In 1952 the

Presidium A presidium or praesidium is a council of executive officers in some political assemblies that collectively administers its business, either alongside an individual president or in place of one. Communist states In Communist states the presid ...

of the

made a decision to set up the Scientific Information Institute in the framework of the Academy of Sciences. The Institute's main task was to organize the informational support of basic science by centralizing the collection, analysis and processing of information. The government reorganized the Institute into the formerly named All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI) in 1955, and it began to cover applied science as well as

basic science Basic research, also called pure research or fundamental research, is a type of scientific research with the aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena. In contrast, applied researc ...

. By 2002, VINITI had become a team of highly skilled professionals processing more than one million scientific publications annually. It is the largest online data bank in Russia, with more than 25 million documents. The database contains the Abstract Journal which is distributed, subscribed to, and read by scientists in 60 countries, with more than 330 publications covering all fields of basic and applied sciences. In 2002, it was also noted for having more than 240 databases on science and technology, economics and medicine. It also has powerful retrieval systems and offers a wide range of services.Russian Abstract Journals in Science and Technology
Science Reference Guides. Library of Congress. December 5, 2002. Public domain content from the US Federal Government.

Publications

VINITI has published the ''Abstracts Journal'' series (Russian: ''

'') since 1952. It features reviews and abstracts of published materials in various areas, including books, scientific research papers, patent documents, regulatory information, technical papers, trade publications, foreign dissertations, and cartographic publications.

References

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