About

The Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN), established in 1969, serves as the successor to the Fundamental Library for Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, originally founded in 1918 as the Library of the Socialist Academy.

Brochure INION RAN – a think tank with a half-century history (PDF, 1.5 Mb)

The history of INION is presented on a heritage page (http://heritage.inion.ru/).

The chief fields of INION’s scholarly activities are:

• fundamental, exploratory and applied research in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities, Computer Science, Library Science and Bibliography – both within state assignment for institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences (http://inion.ru/science/temy-nir/?year=2018) and within research with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research and some other endowments (http://inion.ru/science/issledovatel-skie-proekty/);
• elaboration of information systems in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities (http://inion.ru/resources/bazy-dannykh-inion-ran/);
• development of INION’s Fundamental Library and its numerous branches and bibliographic services at research institutions of Moscow, including digital projects (http://inion.ru/library/about/);
• editorial and publishing activities (http://inion.ru/publishing/vidy-izdanii/), as well as conferences, presentations and other scientific events.

The director of INION RAN, Alexey V. Kuznetsov, is a Doctor of Science in Economics and a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Among the Russian and international academic communities, INION RAN is highly regarded for its prolific output of publications, including monographs, analytical reports, abstract collections, bibliographies, scientific journals, and bulletins. The institution's Fundamental research library and vast digital bibliographic resources further underscore its prominence. Of particular significance are the following:

• Outlines of Global Transformations is a scholar journal included in RSCI database on Web of Science and recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (https://www.ogt-journal.com/jour).
• Political Science is a scholar journal included in RSCI database on Web of Science and recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (https://www.politnauka.ru/jour).
• Current Problems of Europe is a scholar journal included in RSCI database on Web of Science and recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (https://upe-journal.ru/en/). 
• Russia and the Contemporary World is a scholar journal included in RSCI database on Web of Science and recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (http://rossovmir.ru/en/).
• Politeia is a scholar journal included in Web of Science as well as RSCI and recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (https://politeia.ru/).
• Russia and the Moslem World publishes articles, reviews, reports, reference information on relations between Russia and the Islamic World. The bulletin is printed in Russian and in English, four issues in Russian and four issues in English a year.
• Digital database of Russian newspapers of First World War and Civil War (1914–1922) (http://newspapers.historyrussia.org/).
• Manuscripta Islamica Rossica is a digital database of arabographic collections of manuscripts in Russia started in 2017 at INION RAN (http://manuscriptaislamica.ru/en). 
• Digital database of top Russian companies reports, typically since the 2000s (https://reportcollection.inion.ru/).