Department of Scientific & Bibliographic Information of the Fundamental Library

Head of the Department — Nikolai S. Skipin

Focus of research and activity:

The Department aims to provide bibliographic support for research in social sciences and humanities. This aim is pursued through scientific-information and scientific-methodical activities. The principal focus is the compilation of current bibliographies presented as a bibliographic index, “New Literature on Social Sciences and Humanities”, across ten series, published predominantly on a monthly basis.

Currently, the Department of Scientific & Bibliographic Information provides the following bibliographic index and database series to scientific community:

1. «Economics»;
2. «Philosophy. Sociology»;
3. «Jurisprudence. Political science»;
4. «History»;
5. «Archaeology. Ethnology»;
6. «Linguistics»;
7. «Literary Studies»;
8. «Science studies»;
9. «Religious Studies»;
10. «Cultural Studies»

The bibliographic indexes provide information on both Russian and foreign literature in the social sciences and humanities that is scientifically significant, and which is added to the collections of the Fundamental Library of INION RAN. On average, about 90,000 bibliographic records are compiled annually, including monographs, collections of articles, individual articles from academic journals, reviews, thesis abstracts, etc.

In addition to the main list of bibliographic records, branch bibliographies also include author and subject indexes, as well as an index of cited sources. These bibliographic databases also provide tools that allow for automated information retrieval.

Beyond current bibliographic information, the Department is engaged in publishing retrospective literature indexes. Presently, the yearbook “History of World Slavic Studies” is among its publications.

Publications on the INION RAN website:

• History of World Slavic Studies: Index of Literature 2005.
• History of World Slavic Studies: Index of Literature 2006.
• History of World Slavic Studies: Index of Literature 2007.
• History of World Slavic Studies: Index of Literature 2008
• History of World Slavic Studies: Index of Literature 2011
• History of World Slavic Studies: Index of Literature 2012.
• Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont: to the 150th anniversary of his birth: index of literature
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin: to the 250th anniversary of his birth: index of literature.
• The New Populism: A Global Socio-Political Trend.
• Holocaust: Bibliographical Index of Russian-language Literature 1941-2020.
• Philosophical Problems of Artificial Intelligence

Key researchers:

• Nikolai S. Skipin – head of the department, a researcher specializing in the study of ideology, its postmodern evolution, representations in cinema, and the development of environmentalist ideas.
• Natalia D. Volgina – researcher specializing in the history and archaeology of medieval Novgorod, agriculture of Ancient Russia.
• Andrey V. Gasilin – PhD (Philosophy), senior researcher, specializing in Analytical anthropology, Digital humanities and Philosophy of culture.
• Ekaterina A. Dmitrenko – head of the sector of scientific and bibliographic information on humanities, specializing in the history of world Slavic studies.
• Anastasia A. Zubkovskaya – PhD (Philosophy), researcher specializing in the philosophy of religion, philosophy and history of science, religious studies, humanities methodology, epistemology, evolutionism, bioculture, biosemiotics, zoosemiotics, evolutionary epistemology, naturalistic approaches, interaction between natural and human sciences, cognitive theories, emotions and rationality, religious experience, epistemology of imagination, comparative epistemology of artificial intelligence and human reason, Kantian epistemology, neo-Kantianism, symbolic philosophy, religion and science, conceptual theology, among other areas.
• Dinara D. Tulegenova – researcher specializing in political psychology, political culture, political values, Russian youth.
• Elena Yu. Matveeva – PhD (History), leading researcher specializing in Polish history, bibliography in the field of historical sciences.

The Department hosts regular scientific seminars on “Current issues of scientific bibliography”.