Information technology and science: “Information Support of Science: New Technology” scientific seminar in Yekaterinburg

XVI Scientific seminar with international participation "Information Support of Science: New Technology" is taking place November 19-23, 2012 in Yekaterinburg. It is timed to the 80th anniversary of the Central Scientific Library of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The seminar is part of the Ural Scientific Forum timed to the 25th anniversary of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to the 80th anniversary of academic science of Urals, the 20th anniversary of the Demidov Science Foundation. The workshop is attended by experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, of the largest libraries and information centers throughout Russia and other countries. The seminar will include an exhibition of new foreign scientific literature on natural and technical sciences from the leading foreign publishers.

The main subject matters of the seminar:

- Libraries in a single scientific information environment.

- Information and library support of science and innovation.

- Digital libraries and electronic products and services.

- Bibliometric approach to the study of science.

- Academic libraries: historical aspect.

- The book as an object of historical and cultural heritage.

- Methodology and practice of interdisciplinary research.