Electronic Information Resources of Libraries of Higher Education Branch Institutions in Ukraine During the Quarantine Restrictions and Martial Law

Abstract

The aim of the article is to determine the leader among the libraries of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine in the provision of electronic information resources. Research methods. The study used the following methods: synthesis, complexity, comparative analysis, comprehensiveness of knowledge, information diagnostics, generalization, abstraction, systematization, as well as statistical, survey-analytical and benchmarking methods; systemic, functional, social and communication, critical and constructive approaches. Scientific novelty consists in determining the set of electronic information resources provided by libraries during quarantine restrictions and martial law, which allows to establish a leader library among book collections of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine, the experience of which is necessary to analyze and spread to other book collections. Main conclusions. Websites of libraries in higher education branch institutions of Ukraine were studied. A comparative analysis of electronic information resources of libraries during quarantine restrictions and martial law was carried out. The research made it possible to determine the leader among the libraries of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine in providing users with information resources during quarantine and martial law. It turned out to be the library of Kyiv University named after Borys Grinchenko. The library provides its users with a number of remote electronic information resources: an electronic catalog, an institutional repository, audio books, virtual exhibitions, a new accession in the form of presentations, full-text collections of rare publications and B. Grinchenko’s works, a test access to scientometric platforms and databases: Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, Bentham Science, ScienceDirect, a corporate electronic library Alpina Digital. It is appropriate for the leading library to share its experience with other book collections.