VINITI
VINITI is an information service for the Russian scientific community.
VINITI (ВИНИТИ), the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (Всероссийский институт научной и технической информации), formerly the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, is a subsidiary of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Its mission is the collect and provide world-wide scientific and technical information for the Russian scientific community.
History
VINITI was founded in 1952 as the Institute for Scientific Information (Russian: Институт научной информации). Its founding director was Alexander Nesmeyanov. A. I. Mikhaĭlov was director from 1956 to 1988.
Contribution
VINITI publishes the Referativny Zhurnal (Russian: Реферати́вный журна́л, literally Review Journal, which are the first two words of the titles of over a hundred different abstracting services. [1]
Further reading
- Website. [2]
- "VINITI" Wikipedia [3]
- "Всероссийский институт научной и технической информации РАН. [All-Institute of Scientific and Technical Information RAN]." [Russian] Wikipedia [4]
- The USSR scientific and technical information system : a U. S. view. Report of the U. S. participants in the US/USSR Symposium on Scientific and and [sic] Technical Information, held in Moscow, June 18-30, 1973. Washington, DC: Office of Science Information Service, National Science Foundation, 1973. (NTIS-SR-73-01.) [5]