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'''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. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referativny_Zhurnal]

== Further reading ==
*Website. [http://www.viniti.ru/]
*"VINITI" ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VINITI]
*"Всероссийский институт научной и технической информации РАН. [All-Institute of Scientific and Technical Information RAN]." ''[Russian] Wikipedia'' [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Всероссийский_институт_научной_и_технической_информации_РАН]
*''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.) [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005793138]