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| All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information | |
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| Name | All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information |
| Native name | Всероссийский институт научной и технической информации |
| Established | 1918 |
| Type | Research institute; information center |
| Location | Moscow, Russia |
| Affiliations | Russian Academy of Sciences |
All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information is a Russian research and information center specializing in scientific and technical documentation, bibliographic databases, and information services for researchers across disciplines. Founded in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the institute has interacted with leading institutions such as Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and Kurchatov Institute. It has engaged with international bodies including UNESCO, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, World Intellectual Property Organization, and European Patent Office.
The institute traces roots to early 20th-century initiatives connected to Bolshevik Party science policy, the Soviet Union planning apparatus, and pre-Soviet libraries like the Russian State Library and the National Library of Russia. It developed alongside organizations such as Academy of Sciences of the USSR, State Planning Committee (Gosplan), and research centers including Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and Steklov Institute of Mathematics. During the Great Patriotic War, the institute coordinated with People's Commissariat of Defense archives and institutions such as Academician A. N. Krylov’s offices and evacuated collections from Rybinsk and Irkutsk. In the Cold War era it interfaced with Ministry of Medium Machine-Building, Soviet Information Bureau, and specialized bodies like Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics. Post-Soviet transitions involved relations with Russian Federation, State Duma, President of Russia, and funding adjustments mirroring changes at Rosstandart and Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations.
The institute’s mission centers on supporting researchers at Russian Academy of Sciences, policymakers at Government of Russia, and enterprises such as Gazprom, Rosneft, Rostec, and Roscosmos by providing bibliographic reference, patent analysis, and scientific metrics. It functions as a national node for coordination with entities like Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Science Foundation, Skolkovo Foundation, Sberbank, and Vnesheconombank on information infrastructure, while supplying services used by universities including Higher School of Economics, Tomsk State University, and Novosibirsk State University.
The institute is organized into departments modeled after institutes like Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences and divisions analogous to Institute for Information Transmission Problems. Key units include a bibliographic department, patent information center, bibliometrics unit, and digital services group with ties to Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent), All-Russian Patent Office, and the State Committee on Science and Technology. Administrative oversight interacts with Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FANO), and advisory councils featuring representatives from Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Collections encompass print archives, patent repositories, technical reports from institutions such as Energomash, Rosatom, Sukhoi, and United Aircraft Corporation, and digitized materials from projects with Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation and Russian State Archive of Contemporary History. Services include bibliographic databases comparable to Chemical Abstracts Service, patent search analogous to Espacenet, and metrics services paralleling Scopus and Web of Science, offered to clients including Tinkoff Bank research arms and corporate R&D centers like Severstal and Norilsk Nickel. The institute operates specialist libraries, interlibrary loan arrangements with British Library, Library of Congress, and cooperative agreements with Max Planck Society, CNRS, German Research Foundation, and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research programs address information retrieval, bibliometrics, and scientometrics with publications submitted to journals and outlets such as Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki, Science and Education of Russia, and conferences aligned with International Federation of Documentation and Association for Information Science and Technology. The institute has produced bibliographies, directories, and analytical reports used by Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, United Nations, and academic centers like Leipzig University and University of Oxford collaborating on metadata standards. It maintains working relationships with publishers including Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, and Russian houses like Nauka and Mir Publishers.
International collaborations include projects with UNESCO, World Health Organization, European Commission, European Patent Office, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, International Atomic Energy Agency, and regional partners such as Belarus National Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences historically. The institute participates in standards and interoperability efforts with ISO, IEC, and cooperative research with University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Sorbonne University, and University of Tokyo.
Directors and senior personnel have included figures connected to Dmitri Mendeleev-inspired communities, alumni of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and researchers who later engaged with institutions such as Kurchatov Institute, Lebedev Physical Institute, and Pushkin State Russian Language Institute. Prominent names associated by collaboration or leadership include scholars who worked with Andrei Sakharov, Sergei Korolev, Igor Kurchatov, Lev Landau, and administrators linked to Vladimir Vernadsky-led initiatives, as well as contemporary directors who liaised with Dmitry Medvedev-era science reforms and advisors to Vladimir Putin on science policy.