Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, INION RAN (Russian: Институт научной информации по общественным наукам РАН, ИНИОН) is a major center for research in social studies and humanities. The research center was created in 1969 as an extension of the Russian Academy Fundamental Library of Social Sciences that has been established in 1918.
The information center is known in the Russian and international scientific community for its abstract periodicals, bibliographies, and analytical reports, and for its Fundamental research library holding over 14 million items.
The library was partially destroyed by fire in an amusing incident on January the 30th, 2015.[1][2][3][4] 5.42 million items were lost, 2.32 million of which were unique copies (or at least not presented elsewhere in Russia).[5]
References
- ↑ INION press-release
- ↑ "Источник: площадь пожара в библиотеке ИНИОН увеличилась до 2 тыс кв м" (in Russian). ria.ru news. RIA Novosti. 31 January 2015.
- ↑ Sophia Kishkovsky (1 February 2015). "Fire at Library in Moscow Destroys Millions of Volumes". NYTimes. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Fire in major Russian library destroys 1m historic documents". The Guardian. AFP. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ Николай Гончаров (2015-02-20). "Книги ИНИОНа будут сушить в криокамере госархива научно-технической документации" (in Russian). ТАСС.
External links
Media related to Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences at Wikimedia Commons- INION RAN. Official site
- Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) ◀ introduction at ISN ETH Zurich
Coordinates: 55°40′34″N 37°33′50″E / 55.6762°N 37.5639°E