Services of University Libraries for the Support of Scientific Communication

Citation Databases: The Role of the Academic Librarian

“…Academic librarians of Ukrainian higher education institutions actively share at conferences and in scientific publications their own experience of mastering in their institutions new services related to work with the CDB: for example, in the Library of the Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University (Bilous, 2018), the Scientific Library of Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture (Nikolayenko & Rybalchenko, 2019), the Scientific Library of Uzhhorod National University (Smirnova, 2020) and in others. In part, the services related to the CDB have also been described earlier in the paper on the preconditions for the establishment, main functions, and prospects of development of the Information Monitoring Service (M. Nazarovets, 2016Nazarovets, , 2020. However, during six years of working experience with CDB, these services have changed, expanded, and improved over time, based on user requests and the work of Ukrainian and foreign colleagues.…”