Harahulia S. The electronic library as the integrator of scientific information sources

In the dissertation research achieved the definition of directions of libraries' activity in the electronic environment, theoretical and methodological substantiation of the specifics of the scientific elaboration of electronic resources and communication models between the institutes involved in circulation of sources of scientific information. Reasoned a number of ways and means for realization of network cooperation among library establishments in the context of creation of integrated scientific electronic libraries. Proposed the optimal model for the ukrainian library environment based on the latest trends in the industry (data mining, digital curation, linked data, metadata integration etc.). Refined and verified the conceptual-categorical thesaurus for the formation of scientific electronic libraries and the scientific processing of electronic documents. Propounded the author's typology of subjects of scientific information sources integration, methodological and technological peculiarities of their functioning are determined depending on the coverage of the user's audience.