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       THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTRE OF RUSSIA:

                          Status and Activities


     The Scientific  and  Technical  Information  Centre  of  Russia (the
Russian acronym - VNTIC) is  a  nation-wide  (i.e.  federal)  information
institution responsabile  for  the maintenance of the complete all-Russia
(before 1991 - all-Union) fund for scientific R&D reports (projects)  and
dissertations (candidate and doctoral). The presentation of the documents
to the VNTIC fund is obligatory for  all  the  organizations  engaged  in
state budgeted  scientific research and development and is carried out in
accordance with the Federal Law of the  Russian  Federation,  adopted  by
Russian Parlament  and  published  in  January  17,  1995.  The  fund  is
supported in  two  forms:  human-redable  full-text   primary   documents
(reports and   dissertations),  stored  on  microfiches;  machine-redable
(secondary) documents, contaning bibliographic descriptions and abstracts
of the  primary  ducuments  and  stored  in database structure to provide
online information search and retrival.  Thus, VNTIC is original database
geneator.
     For more 25 year of  VNTIC  existence  there  are  above  5  million
documents tatally  accumulated  in  the fund reflecting state-of the main
results of R&D activities undertaken in the former Soviet Union (FSU) and
now in Russia and civering all the areas of human knowledge including not
only exect,  natural and engineering sciences  and  technology  but  also
social sciences, the humanities, arts, medicine and religion.
     The uniqueness of the VNTIC fund is twofold: the documents presented
in the  fund are not being published and circulated i.e.  they exist only
in two type- or computer-written copies on of which belongs to the author
of the  source  institution  and  the  other  goes to VNTIC and since the
documents are not  available  elsewhere  including  such  fomous  Russian
information institutions  like  The All-Russia institution for Scientific
and Technical Information (VINITI),  International Centre for  Scientific
and Technical   Information  (ICSTI)  and  largest  regional  information
centres; the information from the documents becomes  available  to  users
with the  least  possible  delay  of  about 2-3 months as compared to 1-2
years for the same (or even less complete) information  to  appear  in  a
published form (in journals, book, monographs).
     The VNTIC fund,  therefore,  is an integral  part  of  the  national
scientific and  cultural  wealth of the Russia and undoubtfully is of the
world importance and value. In the long run the information from the fund
may save  billions of dollars to the world scientific community providing
information on the expensive and sometimes harmful tu  human  health  and
environment researches  (say,  in chemistry or nuclear physics) that have
already been carried out in the FSU or Russia. The fund and the databases
of VNTIC  are  of  great  interest  not  only  to specialists but also to
generalists - economists,  politologists,  ecologists or NGOlogists - who
are engaged in transformation research concerning Russia and FSU.

     The fund  and  databases  allow  VNTIC  to  provide  users  with the
following kinds of services:
     - publishing the abstract journals on 28 series;
     - partial  database  dessemination  in  machine-readable   from   on
       different subject areas;
     - online and delay search database access;
     - translating  the  abstracts  of  reports  and  dissertations  into
       English language databases;
     - publishing the English language abstracted editions on 10 series;
     - publishing the Russian and English version of the R&D organization
       directories;
     - database on CD-ROM with the Russian and English language documents.

     For more information, call or write:

                VNTIC,
                14, Smolnaya St., Moscow, 125493, Russia

       tel/fax: +(095)456-8593       E-mail: aist@glas.apc.org
           fax: +(095)456-7521               aistmain@vntic.msk.su