Abstract:

The List of peer-reviewed scientific journals of the Higher Attestation Commission is gradually turning into a complex information system based on the normative documents of the Higher Attestation Commission, bibliometric data eLibrary.ru, decisions of the expert councils of the Higher Attestation Commission and working groups engaged in the analysis, ranking and categorization of the journals of the List. The Russian Scientific Journals (RSJ) database created by RIEP can become a system that serves the requests of different categories of users related to the topic of dissertation defense. So far, the RSJ has implemented the interface of a representative of the editorial board of the journal and the interface of a member of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission. It is desirable to include in the RSJ an open interface addressed to the degree applicant to verify compliance with the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission for publications in journals from the List. With the established mutual exchange of data between RSJ and eLibrary.ru, the applicant's interface with the designated functionality can be organized in the eLibrary.ru user environment.

Abstract:

The Open access movement has a long history. In 2002 the Budapest Open access initiative was first announced. However, the problem of Open access has not yet been fully and definitively resolved. In 2018 The European Union has adopted Plan S, which calls for making Open access a reality by 2020. Plan S emphasizes the importance of self-archiving of articles and the role of Preprint’s archives (servers) for scientific results placement. It is noted that Preprint archives have a great potential for editorial and publishing innovations. Scientific journals with limited reader access that operate on a commercial basis do not give up their positions. But even here we see some progress. Journals have become less rigid in their policy towards preprints and post-prints.

More and more foreign scientists are becoming adherents of the "Fair open access" movement, which offers a new organizational solution. The journal must have a scientific organization or non-profit Foundation as a founder, that hires a group of executors to provide editorial and publishing services. Editors and publishers should not have their own commercial interests. The scientific journal should be funded from the general contribution of organizations.

The article considers a modern type of online scientific journal — the overlay journal. The cost of an issue of the overlay journal is so low that the journal can easily implements the "free for the author, free for the reader" scheme. The overlay journal is based on the public servers of preprints. The online overlay journal reviews the article received from the archive. If the article is accepted for publication, the article metadata is published on the journal website, and the full text of corrected article is re-archived. This way of working does not overload the archive functionality, but it allows to reduce the financial burden on the overlay journal.

Abstract: In accordance with the Civil code of the Russian Federation, a research paper is the result of intellectual activity, which is provided with state protection. The author of the research paper owns the right of authorship, the right to a name and other non-property rights. If the paper is created within the framework of the authors' implementation of their official duties, the exclusive right to the paper belongs to the employer.
With the consent of the employer, the author concludes a license agreement with the publisher for the publication of the paper on the terms proposed by the publisher. Signing of the license agreement does not entail the transfer of the exclusive right to the publisher. Even if the employer has instructed the author to enter into a copyright agreement with the publisher under an exclusive license, the employer reserves the right to use the work, including the right to publish the work on its website.
The author (copyright holder) always retains the right to create derivative works. Often imposed by the publisher terms of the license agreement, limiting the author's right to create works on the basis of previously published articles, have no legal force.
The publication by the author of derivative works containing fragments of the author's previous paper should not be considered as a violation of publishing ethics. The term "self-plagiarism" is incorrect.
The Civil code of the Russian Federation establishes a simple (non-exclusive) license that allows several publishers to publish an article without its processing. The publication of article in several editions — this is one of the legal ways of realization of the rights of the author (copyright holder) on a wide publication of a work.

Abstract:

Currently, Russian institutions are almost completely disconnected from Western information resources and services related to the publication of scientific journals. In such conditions, the task of replacing the departed services, reorientation to domestic scientific journals, Russian online library resources has become particularly actual. In the largest bibliographic database the eLibrary.ru, focused on Russian-language scientific publications, collected information about almost 15 thousand Russian-language journals. In the eLibrary.ru there is an analytical system "Russian Science Citation Index" that processes metadata of articles from more than 5 thousand Russian scientific journals. Is the eLibrary.ru ready to serve as a national bibliographic database? For what reason "white lists" of journals appear in Russian organizations?

The main problem of the RSCI is the quality of the constructed ratings of scientific journals. The methods of calculating ratings over the past years have caused certain criticisms. The paper provides an example of a rating of journals from the section "Mathematics" built in the RSCI. Journals that are little known among professional mathematicians were in the first positions. Serious deformations in the ratings of the eLibrary.ru undermine the confidence of scientists in the assessments of the credibility of Russian journals proposed by the eLibrary.ru. The reaction of some universities and scientific organizations is quite expected: organizations are beginning to introduce their own criteria for the success of the publication activities of employees associated with the publication of articles in journals from the so-called "white lists". The white list of journals is compiled, as a rule, by the expert councils of the organization specifically for each discipline and scientific direction. Scientometric indicators may be taken into account when compiling white lists, but they are not the primary criterion for the selection of journals. White lists can now become a reasonable addition to the ratings of bibliographic databases.

Abstract:

For many years, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has been promoting the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) project, the main slogan of which is formulated as "Making the Web accessible". As part of the WAI initiative, WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) are being developed to help website developers take into account the needs of people with disabilities. GOST R 52872-2019 has been developed in the Russian Federation, based on WCAG recommendations. Some provisions of GOST R 52872-2019 are presented in this paper.

Law № 181-FZ on the social protection of persons with disabilities, which has been in force since 1995, establishes a norm according to which developers of information resources must create conditions for people with disabilities to freely use communications and information. The general provisions of Law № 181-FZ are implemented in the directive documents of relevant departments. The paper considers the provisions of the order of the Ministry of Finance of 2023, which determine the procedure for presenting information on the websites of organizations in a form convenient for people with vision and hearing problems. The provisions of the above-mentioned order of the Ministry of Finance encourage developers of websites of organizations subordinate to government bodies in the Russian Federation at various levels to ensure sufficient text contrast, adhere to adaptive design, equip non-text objects with a text layer or comments, simplifying the work of people with disabilities on the Internet and contributing to the development of artificial intelligence tools.

Abstract:

The tool for building ratings of scientific journals is one of the popular services of bibliographic databases. The task of building a rating is usually divided into two main subtasks: determining the reference group of journals and calculating the rating indicator for journals of this reference group. Practice shows that for the correct comparison of journals, a necessary condition is to limit the reference group to exclusively journals of a certain subject. In the case of methodological errors made at the stage of selecting a reference group, the values of the journal index in the rating may differ greatly from the expected ones.

For example, in the ranking of journals in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) according to the two-year impact factor in the thematic area “Mathematics”, classical fundamental mathematical journals, contrary to expectations, do not reach the first positions of the rating. The first positions were taken by journals for which mathematics is not the dominant profile discipline. Analysis of statistical data on the subject of published articles and citations in journals that occupy leading positions in the RSCI rating shows that the multidisciplinary nature of these journals significantly influenced the rating indicators.

The noted misunderstanding leads to the idea that in this case, not all the articles of the journal should have been involved in the calculation of the rating, but only those related to this thematic area. At the same time, the existing scheme of thematic classification of directions also raises questions. The "bottom-up" classification, which is gaining popularity and works on a representative array of articles, seems to be more promising. Here thematic clusters are isolated on the basis of the concept of proximity of articles, interpreted as the proximity of their bibliographic links. And further, the thematic affiliation of the article is not assigned by the volitional decision of the author or the editorial board, but is strictly formally calculated on the basis of its bibliographic list.