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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Engineering & Technologies, 2019, 12(1), 106-112
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УДК 62+004
Northern Technology and Engineering:
Information Support of the Problem
Valentina V. Rykova*
State Public Scientic-Technological Library of the SB RAS
15 Voskhod Str., Novosibirsk, 630102, Russia
Received 27.07.2016, received in revised form 09.02.2017, accepted 15.02.2018
The article represents databases for research information support on the problems related to
providing northern regions with reliable equipment and technologies. It gives characteristics of
information resources on cold regions engineering topic from foreign and Russian databases:
IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, ASCE Library, VINITI RAS, “Scientic Sibirica”. It analyses
a documentary ow “Northern engineering and technolog y” selected from information
array “Problems of the North”, which is a constituent part of DB with current replenishment
“Scientic Sibirica” generated by the Department of Scientic Bibliography of the State Public
Scientic-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The
documentometric analysis (a kind of bibliometric one) shows the chronological, quantitative,
type-species, thematic structures of Russian documents.
Keywords: northern engineering, cold regions technologies, Arctic, databases, information support,
documentometric analysis.
Citation: Rykova V.V. Northern technology and engineering: information support of t he problem, J. Sib. Fed. Univ. Eng.
technol., 2019, 12(1), 106-112. DOI: 10.17516/1999-494X-0033.
Северные технологии и техника:
информационная обеспеченность темы
В.В. Рыкова
Государственная публичная
научно-техническая библиотека СО РАН
Россия, 630102, Новосибирск, ул. Восход, 15
В статье представлены базы данных для информационной поддержки научных исследований
по проблемам, связанным с обеспечением северных регионов с надежным оборудованием
и технологиями. Дана характеристика информационных ресурсов, касающихся проблем
© Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
* Corresponding author E-mail add ress: onbr yk@spsl.nsc.ru
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создания и работы техники в холодных регионах из зарубежных и российских баз данных:
IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, ASCE library, ВИНИТИ РАН, «Научная Сибирика». Анализируется
документальный поток по теме «Северные технологии и техника в северном исполнении»,
выделенный из информационного массива «Проблемы Севера», который является составной
частью БД с текущим пополнением «Научной Сибирики», генерированной отделом научной
библиографии Государственной публичной научно-технической библиотеки общественного
Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук. Потокометрический анализ (разновидность
библиометрического) отражает хронологическую, типо-видовую, тематическую структуру
российского документопотока.
Ключевые слова: северные технологии, техника в северном исполнении, Арктика, базы данных,
информационное сопровождение научных исследований, потокометрический анализ.
Introduction
Currently, a growing interest in the Arctic is observed, because large areas of the Far North are the
most important geostrategic and resource regions. But the lack of a developed transport infrastructure
and highly qualied labour resources complicates the development of this region. Under modern
conditions the economic eciency in northern regions is greatly determined by the level of technologies
development and engineering designed specically to work under severe conditions of the Arctic.
Researches aimed at developing the northern technologies and equipment in the northern fulllment
need the full-value information support accounting requirements of new information technologies.
Intensive development of cold regions engineering sphere is observed not only in northern countries
(Norway, Canada, Russia), but also in China, Japan, USA. The importance of relevant information
support of these research is obvious.
Cold region engineering information support
IEEE Xplore Digital Librar y provides access to the world technical literature in engineering
and technology. The request “cold region engineering” shows about 1,200 documents for 1943-
2016, mainly conferences proceedings. The most signicant international forums are TENCON:
IEEE Region 10 Conference; Remote Sensing, Environment and Transpor tation Engineering; IEEE
International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Underwater Technology, and others
[1-7].
The highest publication activity is shown by Chinese, Japanese, American, Canadian authors.
Their researches are related to various techniques and tools of snow, ice, permafrost observation, new
devices to operate under severe climatic conditions. Norwegian publications are devoted to marine
engineering study. The Cold Region and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research
Institute (the Chinese Academy of Sciences), National Institute of Polar Research (Japan), Cold Regions
Research and Engineering Laboratory (United States) brings together groups the most productive
foreign authors carrying out research in this eld.
DB ScienceDirect (Elsevier) concentrating information on engineering and medicine covers 25%
of world scientic publications. The request “cold region engineering” gives more than 5,000 journal
articles concerning the topic for the last 2 decades (1997-2016). It should be mentioned that lters
applying is needed in this DB to get relevant information. The most productive periodicals are the
following: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Thermal Engineering, Renewable
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Energy, Materials Science and Engineering, Building and Environment, Cold Regions Science and
Technology, Procedia Engineering, etc.
It’s worth to name the periodical of the American Society of Civil Engineers “Journal of Cold
Regions Engineering”, which materials are presented at ASCE Library (http://ascelibrary.org/
journal/jcrgei). The whole content of this journal is devoted to American and foreign research of
northern engineering and technologies. The top 5 cited work of this resource are in the references
[8-12].
The research provision with systematized information on engineering and technology in Russia
have traditionally solved by the All-Russian Institute of Scientic-Technical Information of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (VINITI RAS), which produces abstract journals based on the bibliographic
database (DB) consisting of 28 thematic fragments and 217 sections, which have enclosed materials
since 1981. To support engineering studies the following sections should be noted: Automatics and
Radioelectronics, Transport Mining Engineering, Corrosion and Corrosion Protection, Metallurgy,
Mechanics, Welding, Electrical Engineering, Energetics, etc.
A signicant limitation of using all the mentioned above information resources is availability of
their full-texts only for subscribers, as well as the diculties in searching regional materials.
The largest information array devoted to this topic in Russia is DB “Problems of the North”
generated by the State Public Scientic-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS) – the central body of scientic and technical information of
SB RAS. The mentioned above DB in 2011 was included in regional DB “Scientic Sibirica” covering
information on the Arctic, Siberia and the Far East with its own subject heading.
The information array “Problems of the North” of DB “Scientic Sibirica” includes systematized
materials on the northern technologies and engineering combined in several groups:
1) providing production with northern technology and equipments and in the northern
fulllment,
2) problems of building under northern conditions (house- and civil, industrial construction),
3) problems of deposit (ore, non-metallic, coal and hydrocarbon ones) development under northern
conditions and in permafrost areas,
4) transportation development in northern regions,
5) northern agriculture problems (equipment and technology).
The Russian documents ow bibliometric analysis
The information support is not limited by DBs generation, but is also supported by a
documentometric (bibliometric) research. A documentary ow (DF) on the problems of northern
engineering and technologies from IM “Problems of the North” was isolated and its temporal, thematic,
species-typical structures were analyzed. The volume of DF is above 11,800 documents for a 30-year
period (1987-2016).
The DF temporary structure is shown in Fig. 1, it indicates the continued interest of scientists and
specialists to the problem. There was some decline in publication activity in the 90s of the last century
due to the crisis processes that aected both Russian economy and science. It should be noted that
documents edited in 2015-2016 are actively entered the library nowadays, that’s why the DF amount
for the last ve years will be much higher.
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DF typical structure evidences that the articles from periodicals account about 40% of it. A
“core group” Russian journals with high publication activity on this issue are the following “Gornyi
zhurnal [Mining Journal]”, “Nauka i tekhnika v gazovoi promyshlennosti [Science and technology in
gas industry]”, “Avtomatizatsiya i sovremennye tekhnologii [Automation and modern technologies]”,
“Nauka i tekhnika Yakutii [Science and Engineering in Yakutia]” and others.
Almost half (48%) of DF documents are presented by conferences proceedings. It should be noted
that scientic meetings devoted to the aforesaid problem are regularly held at various levels (from
regional to international ones), many of them work on a regular basis, such as “The dynamics of
systems, mechanisms and machines”, “EURASTRENCOLD: symposium on the problems of materials
and machines strength for cold climate regions”, “History and prospects of transportation development
at the Russian North”, “Materials for technical devices and structures used in the Arctic”, “Terrestrial
transportation and technological complexes and equipment”, “The Northern Sea Route: the Arctic
communications development in the global economy”, etc. It should be paid attention that some
conference proceedings was published only in a digital form on CD-ROMs, DB has the possibility of
acceding from a bibliographic description of a document to its ll text by organizing a hyperlink that
allows the user to get to know the original article without visiting the library.
Monographic editions make up to 4% of DF, among them the signicant part refers to thesis
abstracts. This fact allows forecasting edition books on the research subjects in the near future, that
will become a worthy completion of scientic studies on the issue. Entering the library theses abstracts,
which PhD dissertations were defended in 2015, are presented in references [13-23].
The specialization of northern resource areas is clearly traced in the DF thematic structure. The
third part of DF materials refers to technologies of deposits mining and elds exploitation in the Arctic,
or mining infrastructure creation in permafrost regions. About DF 34% are devoted to transportation
technical-technological problems (laying and maintaining auto roads, railways, pipelines in northern
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under severe climatic conditions.
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institutions with the highest publication activity.
42% of publications relate to materials on technology and engineering created for the northern
regions of Siberia. Siberian scientists and specialists work actively in the following SB RAS’ research
centers: Institute of Physical-Technical Problems of the North (Yakutsk), Institute of Problems of the
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well as teachers and researchers of higher schools – Yakutsk, Tomsk, Tyumen universities. Above
one third of DF are publications of authors working in establishments of the Russian European North
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Conclusion
In conclusion, it should be noted that information resources on northern engineering are diverse in
content and edition types. The great number of information is published in scientic forum proceedings,
which are held regularly on the issue, and periodicals specializing in this topic; there are journals
devoted entirely to this problem. Research centers of cold regions engineering are functioning in a
raw of countries. Investigations in this eld of science are held actively by Russian, Chinese, Japanese,
Canadian and American scientists, it is reected in their publication activity.
Unfortunately the most part of publications’ full-text in DBs is available either by subscription,
or by license agreement. Free full-text information will succeed research information support of the
topic.
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