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from these scientific and engineering fields and had issued 240 issues of that journal
since 1952. Its automated data bank of published Soviet and foreign serial
publications included some 17,000 titles from some 130 countries. The structural
data on chemistry data base, for instance, receives some 500,000 chemical
compounds from some 80,000 publications that includes patent documents. The data
base on primary structures of nucleic acids in 1989 included some 8 million base
pairs abstracted from more than 4500 records. The data base for organic fluorine
compounds annually includes some 40,000 reactions of organic fluorine compounds
taken from journal articles, patent specifications, and inventor's certificates which
amounts to searching some 5,000 documents a year. Director: Nesterov, Petr V.,
1987; Deputy Directors: Boloshin, I. A., 1988; Bondar, Vladimir V., 1988; Chernii,
Arkadii I., C. Tech. S., 1969; and Seiful-Muliukov, R. B., 1979. (Products and
Services Information of VINITI, Moscow: All -Union Institute of Scientific and
Technical Information (VINITI), 1989, 10 PP.)
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3. Scientific Information on Social Sciences Institute in Moscow. The institute
was founded in 1969 to provide a information on the social sciences to institutes and
other subdivisions that collect, and disseminate social sciences information in Russia
and the other republics of the former USSR The institute is subordinate to the
Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician Dr. Vladimir A.
Vinogradov has headed the institute since 1972. The institute has more than 430
researchers on its staff that includes 25 who hold the doctoral degree and 180 with
candidate degrees. The Analytic Survey and Abstracting Division is composed of:
(1.) the Economic Sciences Department with sectors on world economy and
economic theory; (2.) the Philosophical Sciences Department; (3.) the State and Law
Department with sectors on political science and legislation; (4.) the Historical
Sciences Department; (5.) the Philological Sciences Department with sectors on
linguistics and literary studies; (6.) the Countries of Eastern Europe Department with
sectors on foreign sovietology and problems of social development in the countries
of Eastern Europe; (7.) the Countries of Asia and Africa Department with sectors on
the developing countries and the Countries of the Far East Department; (8.) the
America Department; (9.) the Countries of Western Europe Department with sectors
on general problems of Western Europe, international studies and problems of the
international Social Democratic movement ; (10.) the Studies of Sciences
Department; (11.) the Global and National Socioeconomic Problems Department
with a laboratory on sociology, a laboratory on the theory and history of culture, and
a laboratory on coordination of international cooperation in the social sciences. The
Bibliographic Processing and Automated Systems Division is composed of: (1.) the
Scientific-bibliographical Processing of Literature and Creation of Data Bases
Department with sectors in bibliographical information on philosophical sciences,
philology, economics, state and law, history, and regional problems, with a group
on the countries of Asia and Africa and scientific methods and problems of
bibliographical information and unification of data bases; (2.) the Research and
Development of Information Systems Department with sectors on prospective
research and development, research and introduction of computing technique and
technology of information systems; (3.) the Information Retrieval Languages
Department; (4.) the Integrated Scientific Information Provision Department with
sectors on provision of abstract-analytical information, provision of bibliographical
information, and computerized provision of scientific materials, a laboratory on
scientific problems and methods and coordination of information, and, a laboratory
for research of informational requirements in the social sciences. The library has five
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