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National Electronic Libraries of Russia and the United States

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Comparison of the National Electronic Library of Russia and the Digital Public Library of America (in terms of the history of creation, main goals, types and subjects of documents, terms of copying documents, digital infrastructure, sources of funding, and accessibility) showed that while the main goals of their creation are similar, they differ in all of the parameters.

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  1. The Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 20, 2019 no. 169 On Approval of the Provision on the Federal State Information System “National Electronic Library” and Methods for Selecting Objects of the National Electronic Library. http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW.

  2. The federal executive body in the field of culture annually ensures, at the expense of the federal budget, including to the National Electronic Library at least 10% of book titles published in the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. The procedure for annually including to the National Electronic Library the book titles published in the Russian Federation is determined by the Decree on the National Electronic Library. The number of book titles published in the Russian Federation and annually included to the National Electronic Library is determined by the federal executive body in the field of culture. (FZ-78 of December 29, 1994 (as amended on July 3, 2016), article18.1 (introduced by the FZ 342 of July 3, 2016).

  3. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a foundation that provides financial support for research in the humanities and engineering, mathematics, and economics.

  4. Indie (colloquially) is a common name for small independent recording studios that record alternative rock music or jazz that is not interesting to large studios for commercial reasons, as well as for works of these groups themselves.

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This paper was written in accordance with the state task no. 0003-2019-0001 Scientometric and Bibliometric Analysis of Research Areas and Innovative Technologies, including Models of International and Russian Cooperation.

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    R. S. Gilyarevskii & E. V. Mel’nikova

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Gilyarevskii, R.S., Mel’nikova, E.V. National Electronic Libraries of Russia and the United States. Sci. Tech. Inf. Proc. 46, 149–154 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S014768821903002X

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