
VINITI (; All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information; former All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) is a subsidiary of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...
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 (). Its founder was
Alexander Nesmeyanov
Alexander Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov (; – 17 January 1980) was a Soviet chemist and academician (1943) specializing in organometallic chemistry.
Biography
He was born in Moscow. He had two brothers Vasily (1904) and Andrei (1911) and a sister Ta ...
. Its main office is in Moscow, and its publishing house is in
Lyubertsy
Lyubertsy (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Lyuberetsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia.
Demographics
Population:
History
It was first mentioned in 1621 and was granted town status in 1925. It is sometimes described as a wo ...
.
The Institute publishes
Referativny Zhurnal
''Referativny Zhurnal'' (or ''Referativnyi Zhurnal'') (, lit. ''Review Journal'') are the first two words of the titles of over a hundred different abstracting magazines (journals). They were mostly published (mostly monthly) by VINITI (All-Russi ...
("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 ...
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Purpose
VINITI is the name for the Russian, and formerly Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
, 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. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (u ...
. At its inception, it was tasked with gathering scientific and technical
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information from sources throughout the world, and to disseminate this information to the Soviet and socialist
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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
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scientific community
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, which was just then being made available to American, British, Western European, and Japanese scientists and researchers.[
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In 1952 the Presidium
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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. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (u ...
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.
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: ''Referativny Zhurnal
''Referativny Zhurnal'' (or ''Referativnyi Zhurnal'') (, lit. ''Review Journal'') are the first two words of the titles of over a hundred different abstracting magazines (journals). They were mostly published (mostly monthly) by VINITI (All-Russi ...
'') 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.[
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References
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Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1952 establishments in the Soviet Union
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Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Research institutes established in 1952