New Partners of University Library Online

In the end of 2014, Russian platform University Library Online of Direkt-Media company has become partners with two largest branch publishing houses ACB and Feniks.

ACB press has been specializing in architecture and construction since 1993. The new publisher’s collection at www.biblioclub.ru comprises more than 500 ebooks on architecture and construction covering a wide range of professional problems from history of architecture and buildings architectural constructional engineering to their construction technologies. Authors are represented by the leading specialists of the authoritative academic schools of the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering and other universities and academies specializing in architecture and civil engineering work.

Feniks press constitutes another publisher’s collection which has recently been added to University Library Online. It consists of 102 study books on humanities and basic sciences, foreign languages, law, civil engineering and food technologies.

These two newly added collections enable University Library Online to expand the range of titles considerably and increase the quality of the database.

University Library Online is one of biggest internet libraries in Russia, containing more than 100 000 e-books on on social sciences and humanities, basic and fundamental sciences, applied and technical sciences, life sciences and medicine. The database comprises Russian classics, study books, encyclopedias, old and modern books, maps, illustrations, dictionaries and much more.

Russian State Library Expands Funds Digitizing Program in 2015

In 2015 Russian State Library extends funds digitizing program, the purpose of which is to facilitate access to academic and educational literature. The list of titles planned to be digitized in January 2015 covers more than 1000 books across a wide range of subjects, published from 1917 till 2004 (textbooks, dictionaries, reference books, monographs, encyclopedias, albums, atlases, guidebooks).

Technologies are advancing rapidly, and almost all specialized literature becomes obsolete within the period of ten years. RSL tried to add to the list only the books that have not lost their value over the years.

These publications are included in the collections "Russian language", "Literature", "History of Russia", "Nations of Russia", "Art", "Religion", "Philosophy". The collection “Geography” covers a selection of local literature, including regional encyclopedias.

RSL has been digitizing funds before this current program, but only the old ones, as it was stipulated in the copyright law in Russia.

In February 2014 there were changes to the Civil Code allowing digitizing academic and educational literature published in Russia not later than ten years ago.

Updates in Integrum COMPANIES Service

We would like to inform you that a new function has been added to the Integrum COMPANIES system which is Regional Distribution.

The visualization tool allows viewing regional distribution of the company's founders, its affiliates, clients, and organizations owned by subsidiaries on the map. The popup window contains the list of companies and connections to the particular organization