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Impacts of “Perestroyka”and the FSU economic crisis upon communication in FSU science: A study of the life sciences |
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| Authors: | Valentina Markusova Belver C Griffith William D Garvey |
| Institution: | 1. Ruggero Gilyarevskii and Arkady Chernyi VINITI, Moscow, Republic of Russia 2. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA 3. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| Abstract: | Surveys of scientists' communication behaviours were carried out in a variety of institutions engaged in life science research within the former Soviet Union (FSU). The surveys followed the methodology developed by Garvey and Griffith and used in a variety of studies of information flows in various disciplines within the United States.1 The outcome was a contemporary overview of communication practices which showed, as expected, the devastating effects of the current economic plight of the FSU. It also reveals contrasts between the academy-institute structure of the FSU and more entrepreneurial independent university structure of the West. An extremely important result was the discovery of the extent and ingenuity of cooperative relationships with western scientists to sustain continuing scientific work in the FSU. These were initiated under perestroyka and are now proving essential. The present findings are being used, as a practical matter, to guide and information VINITI policy in furnishing information services to the FSU. |
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