FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to compare the functional characteristics of electronic resources that serve as a medium for accumulating scientific content and evaluating its quality. The methodology involves the use of such general scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, comparison, statistical method. The scientific novelty of the work is the formation of a system of functional features of electronic scientific resources in the context of completeness of satisfying the information needs of the scientific activity support. Conclusions. In order to integrate scientific research into the international information space and to evaluate the quality of scientific knowledge, scientific citation databases perform their main function: to be a tool for forming a single information environment and a source base for information support of the scientific activity and conducting scientometric research. The functionality of search engines and databases is provided by the organization of
scientific content in the following aspects: content coverage, research areas coverage, data representation, search tools. The highest content coverage has a Google Scholar resource that contains the maximum number of types of scientific content. The basic scientific content that is presented in all the analyzed resources is scientific articles. The analysis of the research areas coverage of electronic scientific resources shows that all the analyzed scientific resources are multidisciplinary. Scopus and DOAJ are the leaders in the number
of basic scientific categories. The analysis of electronic scientific resources by the level of generalization of scientific content confirmed the status of Scopus, WоS, Google Scholar and “Ukrainika scientific” as reference resources. The most comprehensive abstract content is provided by Scopus and WоS resources. An analysis of the search engine of scientific electronic resources shows that the most complete search tools are the Scopus
and WоS databases. Domestic resource “Ukrainika Scientific” is characterized by a sufficiently powerful search system too. Google Scholar has the least extensive search filter system. An analysis of the principles of evaluating scientific content has shown the widespread use of traditional metrics: both common (Hirsch index) and original within a particular resource. There is a tendency to involve alternative methodologies for
evaluating scientific content.
Key words: citation database, electronic resource, search engine, scientific content, functional feature, scientometry