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The digital transformation and the changes generated in the R&D field determine the high importance of information and digital literacy for researchers. Research and academic libraries have a great potential in the development of information and digital competencies. This is confirmed by many publications of domestic and foreign library specialists. One of the promising areas to increase information and digital literacy of researchers, is the implementation of the educational function in research and academic library in the distance format. Since 2010, the Central Scientific Library of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences organizes the educational course “Information School for Scientist”. Digitalization-based changes in research field and the relevance of distance training have resulted in the need to process the course deeply. The purpose of the article is to determine the way to modernize the educational course in the Central Scientific Library UB RAS. The article presents the direction of content transformation of the course and the option to convert it into a distance format. Content changes suggest the addition of a number of topics, the choice of which is based on an analysis of the components of information and digital knowledge necessary for a modern researcher. The creation of the online course is supposed, will be based on the Moodle course management system. The author concludes that the updated thematic content and presentation format of the course “Information School for Scientist” will increase significantly the level of information and digital literacy of researchers. It is possible due to synchronization of the course with the tasks facing modern researchers; organization of on-the-job training, the availability of the exhaustive complex of training materials on one and the same platform, and the expansion of students’ geography.

Scientometric studies have become an integral part of scientific libraries activities with introducing the state rating system in Russian science. Scientometric studies contribute to study long-term trends in the science development, help to discover interdisciplinary links between publications of scientists from various scientific organizations and different countries, and are a tool to determine the return and payback of public finances investments in science and research projects. Evaluation of scientists’ productivity, contribution of them and scientific organizations to the development of specific field of science or interdisciplinary research is one of the most important theoretical and applied problems in the science of science. Nowadays there is no clear methodology to assess the results of scientific activities in Russia, and all conclusions are based primarily on digital scientometric indicators, such as the number of the author’s publications and references to his work. The study objective is to determine which of the existing criteria, in combination with generally accepted indicators, can serve as a basis to form an idea about the level of contribution of organizations and authors to the interdisciplinary research development. The study has determined the boundaries of monitoring: 1. The level of organizations - scientific institutions of the Ural Federal District. 2. Time coverage: 2000-2018. 3. Subjects of the organizations under study: mathematics, mechanics and computer science; economic sciences; physical and technical sciences; chemical sciences; biological sciences; medical sciences; earth sciences; humanities; agricultural sciences; interdisciplinary problems. Research platforms are Web of Science and Scopus. In accordance with the systems approach principles, the author selects the following evaluation parameters: institute publications amount; documents types; years of publications for the whole period; leading authors; leading research directions; areas with low publications amount; co-sponsoring countries. Selected parameters tend to develop, grow and change, contribute to the information accumulation, further comparative analysis, reflect many scenarios when comparing the criteria. The author reveals a number of problems arising during the information collecting and analyzing: lack of organization profiles; incorrect affiliation; lack of a generally accepted form of words abbreviation in organization names; submitting the information on publications in the account of several organizations; a trouble of accounting the co-authors contribution to the scientific activity results.

The article contains the research results of the Central Scientific Library of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CSL UB RAS) to determine the publication activity of chemical profile institutions of UB RAS based on information retrieval system SciFinder of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). The indicators take into account publications number, their citation rates and impact factors of journals (from the database Journal Citation Reports). The authors reveal basic research topics, scientific journals, which published the research results of scholars working at the chemical profile institutions of UB RAS more often. The article presents the results of studying citation of inventions of UB RAS’ scientific organizations in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) (Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU) and SciFinder (CAS). The obtained indicators allow authors to evaluate the dynamics of scientific productivity of UB RAS’ institutions.

Preserving the historical-cultural heritage is an actual problem of fundamental scientific research. A special place in this heritage is the book culture including libraries - state, public, private, personal ones. Book collections of scientists refer to the special section of libraries. A holistic view of the outstanding researcher book collections allows complementing and enriching ideas about the researcher creative laboratory, as well as providing additional materials on the history of science, book culture and, even widly, the history of Russia. The article is devoted to the collection of books from the library of a Russian physicist-chemist, Professor of the Physical Faculty of Moscow State University, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, V. K. Semenchenko, who is a major specialist in chemistry of thermodynamics, theory of electrolyte solutions, surface tension. This study is research continuation carried on in the Central Scientific Library of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CSL UB RAS) to investigate scientific and cultural heritage of the Urals and Russi. The research methodological basis is modern concepts of the history of book business in a broad socio-cultural perspective using the following techniques: bibliographic, functional, analytical-thematic, paleographic, systematic, bio-bibliographic and others. The small collection of V. K. Semenchenko’s books (100 units) entered the collection of CSL UB RAS in 1993 under the mediation of Academician Vladimir Pavlovich Skripov, Director of the Institute of Thermophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who was a former student and postgraduate of V. K. Semenchenko. The composition of the book collection is represented in the chart. There are many works of famous scholars, Rus- sian and Soviet classics of science of the XX century (books included in Digital Library «Russian Scientific Heritage») in V. K. Semenchenko’s collection. 42 volumes of the library have autographs of their owner V. K. Semenchenko. The books have inscriptions of authors, friends and relatives addressed to V. K. Semenchenko. The book collection uniqueness is evident due to book «Theory of atom» by of V. K. Semenchenko presented to the library by the researcher’s daughter. The book page-proofs (layout) were done in 1941. This book remained in a single copy. Many books and authors of V. K. Semenchenko’s books collection are of interest in terms of studying the history of the world science development. Thus, studying the book collection of a physicists contributes to investigating the acquisition history and stocks composition of CSL UB RAS, book culture, Russian and world science, and, in general, into the country historical and cultural heritage preservation.