A bibliographic database on sociology: Principles and instruments of formation,structure, and search properties

This paper describes the goals and tasks of creating a bibliographic database on sociology at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Its problem and thematic structure, along with the specific and language composition of documents are determined. The basic principles of the analytic synthetic processing of documents and queries based on a set of linguistic tools on sociology are considered. The interdisciplinary access to information resources (domestic and foreign) is found to be necessary to improve the quality of scientific and information support to users of sociological information.