RESEARCH BASE FOR PROFESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS  AND EDUCATION
IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
Tatyana Yudina
Leading researcher of Moscow State University Research Computing Center
Moscow,119899, Vorobiovy Gory, yudina@mail.cir.ru

The University Information System RUSSIA (www.cir.ru) is available since February 2000 as a  collective research base for investigations and education in social sciences. The system covers a wide scope of social domain documents and data from first-hand sources under legal agreements. The NLP technology developed under the project provides for up to 2 Mb of electronic documents are classified, conceptually indexed, annotated and integrated on daily bases. Academic services are provided for users.  The resource is free for the universities and higher education institutions. The UIS RUSSIA is accomplished as a core for inter-university corporate network with regional universities developing information systems on local sources