Infometric Diagnostics of the Flow of Publications in Library Services

Abstract

Besides a library's own collection, there is also an increasing use of web-based scientific information resources in library research and development services. The ever-increasing volume of such information, its fragmented location (in various databases, information retrieval systems, etc.) actualize the interest in automating processes when dealing with such scientific resources. The paper presents the functions of a software package for infometric diagnostics of the publication flow to serve users of the Belarus Agricultural Library (BelAL), which is being developed at the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and BelAL. The software package is designed to automate the information servicing of BelAL users in terms of search, delivery and analytical processing of scientific Internet publications on agriculture.