Applying bibliometric methods to analyze relation between available information resources and scientists’ publication activity

Within the “academic library – researcher/professional” pair, the library has to know what resources it has to obtain to meet information and document needs of users; while the researcher want to know in which journal, primarily foreign one, they should publish their research findings. The authors analyze the correlation between the journals that the library provide in various modes and those where the researcher publish their works. They examine the possibility for applying bibliometrical methods to analyze this correlation. By the example of the chemical sciences, the authors investigate into the correlation between the journals in Scopus Database accessed online by RAS Siberian Branch researchers, and those where the latter publish their works, and conclude that providing resources to scientists and the researchers’ selecting journals for publishing are related not enough: users need to get information on all related journals; there is also the need for the national subscription for all journals for them to select the periodical for publications more precisely. The data cited by the authors will make the base to substantiate subscription for academic journals and to develop collection development program.