This was announced at the session of the XI Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia by Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladislav Panchenko.
According to him, the discussed unified database of scientific publications “can be an official state list by which the achievements of both an individual scientist and an organization are determined.”
As the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences said, Russia already has a unified platform of scientific periodicals in the form of more than 500 scientific journals hosted on the platform of the Russian Center for Scientific Information. According to Panchenko, the creation of a unified platform for scientific knowledge of the Union State “would be extremely important for various processes of regularization of our scientific, technical and socio-humanitarian relations”.
“We are now discussing how we can translate this platform into various languages of the world - not only into English, and primarily not into English,” Panchenko noted. According to him, this issue will, in particular, be discussed in September at the congress of the International Association of Academies of Sciences.
Panchenko expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that scientists both in Russia and around the world over the past 20 years “have become hostages of determining our national successes using databases, according to criteria that were set not by us, but by the two major publishing corporations.”