More than 650 Russian Journals Included in Web of Science

Intellectual Property & Science, IP &Science of Thomson Reuters and Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU have conducted integration of Russian Science Citation Index to Web of Science™, the leading world search platform for natural, social sciences and humanities.

652 prominent journals for inclusion in RSCI were selected by the specially created working group of scientists directed by Anatoliy Grigoriev, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Russian Academy of Sciences publishing council. As the majority of articles in RSCI are in Russian, each material is accompanied with a brief annotation and a list of key words in English. On request WoS users can order an article translation or use the standard services.

Russian Science Citation Index is available for registered users of WoS alongside with the other national science citation index databases: KCI Korean Journal Database , SciELO Citation Index as of 2014 and Chinese Science Citation Database as of 2008.

To look through the list of RSCI journals please go to the link.

The news release is available at the link.

Scientific electronic library is the leading Russian company in providing academic information, analytical data and services. eLIBRARY.RU is the biggest Russian aggregator of academic information, allowing universities, innovation companies, research institutions getting access to online library of academic articles and books, citation indexes and search tools.

Thomson Reuters is the world leader in providing analytical information for business and professionals. The company unites industry knowledge and innovation technologies to present the data to the leading professionals in the sphere of finances, law, taxation, accounting, science, mass media, etc.

Direct-Media Acquired eBook Platform Knigafund

In December 2015 Direct-Media company acquired ebook platform Knigafund of Digital Distribution Center.

Knigafund is one of the oldest Russian ebook platforms, once played a key role in the electronic resources local market development. Today Knigafund continues occupying a considerable market share which is now being combined with a share under Direct-Media control. Merger of online-platforms University Library Online and Knigafund will allow improving the efficiency of these online platforms management, diversifying market segments, attracting additional content and improving the quality of services.

Konstantin Kostiuk, Director General of Direct-Media company, asserted, "Mergers and acquisitions are the natural development tactics amid the economic crisis, especially when the local market potential has exhausted itself. A series of mergers took place in the book market, and now it has reached a young electronic market, surviving accelerated growth in 2010-2013. By way of the merger we will extend our sphere of influence and save on costs. I have always said that the diversity observed on the ebook platform market today is beyond the means of high school publishing segment. The number of players will be dropping.”

Direct-Media plans to focus the platforms on the definite target audiences. Knigafund will serve universities which are in need of one stop, quality, thus low-budget product on the “all-inclusive” principle.

The news release is available at the link.

Direct-Media is the Russian publishing house operating in the market since 2002. Among its projects are University Library Online with over 100 000 ebooks, Internet book store, Art portal, Business library, Plagiarism detector, Electronic encyclopedias and others.

Digital Distribution Center was founded in 2007 to develop and manage the projects for legal distribution of digital content in Internet. The main product is online library Knigafund.

Russia Officially Acceded to the ISSN International Centre

Russia becomes a member of ISSN International Centre. Such an agreement was signed by Sergey Mikhailov, Director General of Russian News Agency TASS, and Mrs Gaëlle Béquet, Director of ISSN International Centre. The new Russian ISSN centre should start operating in January 2016 and will be represented by “TASS” and its branch Russian Book Chamber.