Literary studies: Information consumers,databases, principles of informal processing,and search strategies

This paper describes the problem-thematic structure of the database on literary studies that is formed at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION). The principles and properties of analytical synthetic processing of documents and queries based on a set of linguistic means of the system are described. The strategies for information searches by queries of different complexity are considered. It is noted that it is necessary to improve the quality of access to electronic information resources on literary studies.