Role of Virtual Digital libraries in internet

Sergei A.Arnautov
N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS
ul.Kosygina, 4, 119991 Moscow, Russia (saa@ras.ru)

Prospects of creation of digital libraries in the Russian Academy of Sciences, which potentially can become universal repositories of knowledge and information created by establishments and scientists of academy are considered. Key functions of such libraries are maintenance of effective integration and interoperability of diverse information resources and publication / registration of all kinds of the scientific information, including maintenance of its availability, authenticity and archival storage in digital form.