DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

DEPARTMENT HISTORY

In 1972, a group of scientific and technical information was created at the IPCC of NAS of Ukraine, and in 1975 it transformed into a laboratory of scientific and technical information. In March 1979, the Department of scientific and technical information and patent management emerged. In 1981, the Departments of scientific and technical information and patent management were separated, and Zoya B. KAMENETSKA, Ph.D. (Econ.) was the first head of the Department.
Since 1996, the Department has been headed by Yevheniia PUSHKOVA.

DIRECTIONS OF ACTIVITY

The Department activity is organized in several main areas:

• information support for the scientific and educational activities of the Institute;
• participation in the formation of priority areas of development of science and technology as well as innovative activities of the Institute;
• current reference and information services;
• search for new forms of scientific and technical cooperation;
• coordination and organization of scientific events;
• implementation of measures to support scientific research of young scientists, postgraduate students, their involvement in research work;
• preparing the grant applications; establishment of new contacts with leading research centers in the world;
• coordination of cooperation within the framework of the UNESCO Chair in Cryobiology;
• organization of internal and external reporting on the scientific activities of the Institute;
• maintenance of documents and protocols that reflect the content, organization and methodology of the Institute’s scientific activities;
• layout and translation of the “Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine” journal;
• coordination of the creation of scientometric profiles of employees, media literacy