ISSN 2707-0476 (Online)

University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development. Conference Proceedings, 2021, No VI

UniLibNSD-2021

LIBRARY SERVICES FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION SUPPORT

_{Scientific
and Technical Library, Dnipro National University of Railway
Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan (Dnipro, Ukraine),}

_{INTERNET
RESOURCES FOR QUALIFICATION UPGRADE, SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES}

_{Objective.
The article aims to familiarize with online
resources, useful to
librarians, scientists, teachers, and students.}_Methods._{Overview of online resources for distance learning, qualification
upgrade, scientific, educational and professional activities.}_Results._{The description and characteristics of Internet resources for
scientific, educational and professional activities is given.}_Conclusions._{Distance learning is an important component of continuous
professional development, a convenient modern format of professional
improvement. The advantage of distance learning is the opportunity to
learn at a convenient time and in any place. The use of modern
Internet tools (including author identifiers) in your activities
opens up new opportunities.}

_Keywords:_{internet resources; online resources; qualification upgrade; distance
learning; distance learning courses}

_{The
first attempt of distance learning is a course of shorthand by Isaac
Pitman that was conducted by mail in England in the 1840s (Wikipedia,
2021). The advent of the Internet has given a new impetus to the
development of distance education. “The physical
‘brick and
mortar’ classroom is starting to lose its monopoly as the
place of
learning” (Nguyen, 2015, p. 309). Academic libraries have
become
increasingly active in integrating their electronic resources into
educational programs of distance education (Owusu-Ansah, Rodrıgues,
& Walt, 2019), and open access promotes the democratization of
knowledge, providing qualitative education in different part of the
world (Costa & Santa Anna, 2019).}

_{But
in 2020 the world had to face the unexpected ordeal – the
COVID-19
pandemic. The universities and academic libraries have to pass a test
of readiness to provide their services in the remote mode. The survey
conducted by}_{E.
Çimen, G. Gürdal, S. Çuhadar, and T. A.
Çanak}_{among the Turkish libraries revealed the problem. 61.9% of
respondents indicated insufficient user training. Another 25%
indicated a lack of qualifications and staff experience
(Çimen,
Gürdal, Çuhadar, & Çanak, 2020).
Ukrainian librarians have
faced similar problems (Kolesnykova, 2020a). It is the internet
resources that can help overcome these obstacles.}

_{The
world and Ukrainian Internet resources of free access and their use
by the staff of the Scientific and Technical Library of Dnipro
National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V.
Lazaryan for professional activity and qualification upgrade are
considered.}

_{There
are many platforms, courses, etc. for self-development, increasing
professional competencies.}

_edX
Portal₍_{https://www.edx.org/}_{)
provides access to 2964 courses and 287 programs created in 140
leading institutions in the world, such as Harvard, Stanford,
Princeton, Peking universities, Microsoft, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and others. (Fig. 1).}

The courses cover a wide range of topics (arts and culture, business and management, communication, computer science, humanities, etc.) and will be useful for librarians, scientists, teachers and students. For example, among the programs offered, Public Library Management program with a professional certificate by the University of Michigan or a course on Library Advocacy are of interest to librarians.

Google offers a variety of training programs for self-improvement, distance work and qualification upgrade at Digital Workshop (_{https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalworkshop-ua/courses}_{),
where you can learn the rules of business writing (e-mail, notes,
presentations or report), the art of public speech, etc.}_{Google
Calendar}_{free digital tools (}_{http://calendar.google.com/}_{)
allow planning your personal and collaborative activities with
colleagues, and}_Google
Keep₍_{http://keep.google.com/}_{)
makes it possible to save notes, lists, etc. and share lists with
colleagues.}_{Google
Alerts}₍_{https://www.google.com/alerts}_{)
allows creating various queries and adjust settings, once set up,
this tool will send you email notifications as soon as Google finds
new query results.}_Google
Docs_{service (}_{https://docs.google.com/}_{)
is an opportunity to create, share, and comment on documents in
Google Drive. When creating documents, bibliographies, etc. it is
better to provide short links.}_С_utt.ly_{.
is one of the web URL shortener services. Other functions include
saving the history of shortenings, generating a QR code, own
characters in an abbreviated link, detailed statistics.}_Google
Forms₍_{https://www.google.com/intl/en_en/forms/about/}_{)
allows managing event registrations, create a survey forms, and
provide summary charts and graphs.}

_{There
are many useful videos for scholars, students and librarians on the
popular}_YouTube_{video hosting service. It is stated in the scientific literature that
YouTube is becoming a means of scientific communication about science
and medicine (Allgaier, 2018). The resource also includes language
courses, computer literacy videos, online webinars on Web of Science
(}_{https://www.youtube.com/user/WOKtrainingsRussian}_{)
and more.}

_{In
the process of research activity, scientists create a personal
scientific image. Services such as}_ORCID₍_{https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search}_)
and_Publons₍_{https://publons.com/about/home/}_{)
make it possible to identify authors at the international level and
track publications, citation rates, etc. In the ORCID researcher
profile you can add information about yourself (place of study, work,
research interests) and your publications. Publons allows tracking
not only the list of publications and citation rates, but also
reviewing and editing journals.}

_{In
Ukraine, there are also many resources to improve one’s
professional level and gain new competencies. Among them, for
example, the first distance platform of civic education from}_VUM_{(Open University of Maidan) –}_{https://vumonline.ua/}_{(Fig.
2), which expands opportunities for self-education.}

For scholars, students and librarians, the following courses will be useful: _{Digital
security and online communication}_{(on effective and safe communication on social networks, etc.);}_{Academic
integrity at the university}_{(how to avoid plagiarism and how to create a virtuous environment in
an educational institution);}_{Library
– an open public space}_{(recommendations about the library rooms, new services and forms of
customer service).}

_Prometheus₍_{https://prometheus.org.ua/}_{)
is a Ukrainian public project of mass open online courses from
leading teachers, universities and organizations of the world in
various fields, which include issues of academic integrity
(}_{https://cutt.ly/oQntNdL}_{),
scientific communication, specialized search engines and databases,
scientometrics and bibliometrics, etc.}

_{Another
free educational resource is online digital literacy platform
“Diia.
Digital education” –}_{https://osvita.diia.gov.ua}_{.
The skills acquired in these courses will be needed for work and
study, professional and personal development. There is a video for
both beginners and those who already have digital literacy skills.}

_{In
November 2020, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
launched}_Digigram₍_{https://osvita.diia.gov.ua/digigram}_{)
– a general-national test on digital literacy. Having
answered 90
questions, you can get a certificate with the specified general level
of digital literacy and a transcript for each competence
(Fundamentals of computer literacy; Information and media literacy.
Ability to work with data; Creation of digital content, etc.).}

_{Kharkiv
Regional Branch of the Ukrainian Library Association, V. G. Korolenko
Kharkiv State Scientific Library regularly conducts}_{distance
learning courses “Library in the digital
environment,”}_{where you can get acquainted with new services and forms of work of
the modern library
(}_{http://moodle.d-academy.com.ua/course/index.php?categoryid=4}_).

_{For
qualification upgrade and self-development, it will be useful to
participate in Internet conferences, seminars on librarianship of the
Ukrainian Library Association
(https://ula.org.ua/konferentsii-seminary-treninhy). The Section of
University Libraries of the Ukrainian Library Association (ULA) in
2021 launched the Anti-School of University Librarians “From
research. For research. About research.” These are monthly
online
meetings to share library experiences on information support for
users, especially during distance work or study. The first meetings
in the online format showed how necessary it was to exchange
experience between different libraries, what issues are of the
greatest interest to the community. The last classes are devoted to
the creation and improvement of e-archives (repositories) of works by
university scientists. In the spring of 2021, the}_{Section
of ULA Public Library Workers and the Ministry of Digital
Transformation of Ukraine}_{organized an online marathon “Digital Literacy of People and
Communities” to discuss digital education and increase media
literacy.}

_{Using
the following free access resources, each librarian can get
acquainted with the achievements of colleagues, as well as share
their own experiences:<}

_E-LIS₍_{http://eprints.rclis.org/}_{)
– is an international open access repository for academic
articles
in the field of library and information sciences. At present, there
are about 22.5 thousand documents. It is constantly replenished with
works of librarians from all over the world.}

_{On
the portal of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in the
section “Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine”
(}_{https://cutt.ly/ZQkQhSu}_{)
you can find professional issues of such journals as “Library
Bulletin,” “Bulletin of the Book
Chamber,” “Library Science.
Record Studies. Informology,” “Information
Technologies and
Learning Tools” and many other interesting and relevant
literature
in electronic form.}

_{ScienceDirect}₍_{https://www.sciencedirect.com/}_{)
– one of the largest online collections of published
research. The
collection of Elsevier Dutch publisher contains almost 12 million
content elements of more than 3500 journals and more than 34000
e-books, reference books, scientific collections. Scopus database was
created in 2002 on the basis of ScienceDirect. Much of the collection
is in the public domain.}

_{DOAJ
(Directory of Open Access Journals)}₍_{https://doaj.org/}_)
–_{an
online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality
peer-reviewed open access journals. The catalog indexes 5260387
articles from 15122 publications. Among them, at least 174 journals
on library topics in different languages.}

_{Google
Scholar}₍_{https://scholar.google.com/}_{)
– the most popular search engine for scientific publications
(articles, theses, books, abstracts, reports, etc.), which is of
interest to users. Different categories of authors (scientists,
universities, publishers, etc.) can create their own page with the
ability to edit it, which provides information about research areas
and interests, a list of their publications, see citation statistics,
h-index. Publications are added automatically and manually.}

_{To
promote distance learning and online professional growth and
self-education courses, libraries provide information about them on
their websites. Information about such resources or online seminars
is constantly published}_{on
DNURT library}_website_{(Fig.
3) in the News section (}_{https://library.diit.edu.ua/uk/}_{)
and on the library’s Facebook page
(}_{https://www.facebook.com/diitlib}_).

Library staff regularly study at various courses, webinars and participate in international meetings, Internet conferences, receive certificates of various courses offered on the Internet (Clarivate, BrightTALK, Elsevier). The employees also participate in various international conferences of the library and information community of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Latvia and others. Over the past ten years, library staff has published more than one hundred and fifty abstracts, articles in professional world and Ukrainian journals, conference proceedings and web conferences.

The DNURT library also creates and offers its educational resources. On the library’s website (_{https://library.diit.edu.ua/uk/page/video-uroki}_{)
and on the YouTube channel (Fig. 4) you can find video tutorials how
to register a scientist’s profile in various scientometric
systems,
how to choose a journal to publish research results and how to submit
an article to an open access journal, how to search for scientific
articles on the websites of electronic journals and repositories, how
to edit and combine the author’s profiles in the Scopus
database,
how to confirm the authorship of the scientist’s publications
list
in the Web of Science system
(https://library.diit.edu.ua/uk/page/video-uroki)
(}_{https://www.youtube.com/user/diitlibrary}_).

For teachers, researchers, PhD students of the university the Scientific and Technical Library organizes trainings, seminars and webinars for successful scientific activity (“Information resources and services for scientists and librarians,” “Modern scientific communication. Resources and opportunities Web of Science,” “Scientific brand of the university and scientist,” “Working with the university repository. Self-archiving”, and others.). In the period of remote work during the quarantine, the library held an online-presentation “Academic integrity as the basis of university education” for library staff and a webinar “How to organize remote work of the university library staff under conditions of uncertainty?” (Kolesnykova, 2020a, 2020b).

In the conditions of pandemic and remote work, the library employees have mastered new forms of work for the organization of joint activities and communication. The capabilities of the Google Docs cloud office suite have been widely used. The main advantage of the program is that it allows access to the entered data from any computer connected to the Internet. For example, the library departments provided weekly reports on the work done. Each employee of the department, the director of the library and her deputy had access to this document. Video chats and meetings of colleagues on online platforms Zoom, Google Hangouts, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. were created to discuss working issues. This made it possible to choose a convenient option for the library team using home computers, laptops and mobile devices for communication (Savelieva, Savina, & Romanko, 2020). To post the missing works of scientists in the repository, some documents were stored in the Cloud, which made it possible to do this from home computers. Google Analytics analyzes the statistics of the audience of the library site and other library resources, provides data for the annual report. With the help of the Notification, information about the works of DNURT scientists, which are indexed by scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science, is sent to the e-mail of the Scientific and Technical Library. Researcher ORCID and Publons, indicators of various databases (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus, etc.) allow you to track the results of academic activity of an individual scientist and the university. This data is used to supplement and update the local database of the university “Publication profile of university science,” when preparing a report on the scientific activities of the scientist or the university department and the eaDNURT repository.

During the preparation and organization of seminars, the annual international conference “University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development” the Google Forms tool was used to create a participant registration form and questionnaire by topic. There is also a possibility to manage event registrations, create programs and conference pages, etc.

The direction of work on ensuring the quality of educational activities at the university is relevant. The library participates in organizing events to create a virtuous environment for DNURT university community, improves its skills through the webinars on the _{Unicheck
Ukraine}_{online plagiarism check service (“How to use the similarity
report
from Unicheck,” etc.). For the first time, about 350
qualification
graduation theses were checked, and plagiarism reports were provided
(Shytikova & Bondarenko, 2020). This service also checks the
articles of scientists provided for publication in the university
periodicals.}

_{The
use of acquired skills provides an opportunity to improve your
professional competencies, provide a variety of quality services to
library users for their scientific and educational work.}

_{Distance
learning is an important component of continuous professional
development, a convenient modern format of professional development.
There are many courses on the Internet, different in subject,
language and duration, which will deepen your knowledge and improve
your skills (Yunakovska & Matveyeva, 2020). The peculiarities
of
work and study in hybrid formats gave impetus to the study and use of
digital services in scientific, educational and professional
activities of librarians. The use of modern Internet tools (including
author’s identifiers) in the work opens new, wider
opportunities,
allows tracking, verifying and demonstrating the activities of any
community, including libraries of the higher educational
institutions. This is a great opportunity to learn something new,
share your experience and be interesting and necessary for the users.
ORCID is a digital identifier solving the problem of identifying
authors at the international level. Publons is a tool for tracking
publications, citations, reviews, and journal editing.}

_{Çimen,
E, Gürdal, G., Çuhadar, S., &
Çanak, T. A. (2020). Yeni
koronavirüs (COVID-19) sürecinde
türkiye’de üniversite
kütüphaneleri.}_{Bilgi,
Dünyası, 21}_{(1),
169-203.}_doi:_{https://doi.org/10.15612/BD.2020.834}_{(in Turkish)}

_{Costa,
M.
E. O., & Santa Anna, J. (2019). Acesso aberto e
educação a
distância: novas configurações para a
democratização do
conhecimento.}_{Ciência
da Informação (online), 48}_,
536-546._{Retrieved
from}_{http://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/download/4932/4519/}_{(in Portuguese)}

_{Kolesnykova,
T. (2020a).}Higher education libraries under uncertainty: the specific of the staff’ remote work organizing_._{Ukrainskyi Zhurnal z Bibliotekoznavstva ta Informatsiinykh Nauk}_,_6,_{40-61.
doi:
https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.6.2020.218608
(in Ukrainian)}

_{Kolesnykova,
T. (2020b, March 30). Yak orhanizuvaty viddalenu robotu kolektyvu
universytetskoi biblioteky v umovakh nevyznachenosti?
[Video file]. Retrieved from}_{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxAZNHs3SyU}_{(in Ukra}_i_nian)

_{Nguyen,
T. (2015). The effectiveness of online learning: beyond no
significant difference and future horizons.}_{MERLOT
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 11}_{(2),
309-319. Retrieved from}_{http://jolt.merlot.org/Vol11no2/Nguyen_0615.pdf}_{(in English)}

_{Owusu-Ansah,
C., Rodrıgues, A., & Walt, T. (2019). Integrating digital
libraries into distance education: A review of models, roles, and
strategies.}_{Turkish
Online Journal of Distance Education, 20}_{(2),
89-104. doi:}_{https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.557742}_{(in English)}

_{Savelieva,
O. A., Savina, O. P., & Romanko, V. M. (2020).}_{Remote
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dopovidei V mizhnarodnoi naukovo-praktychnoi konferentsii, 8-9
zhovtnia 2020, Dnipro.}_{Retrieved from}_{http://conflib.diit.edu.ua/Conf_univ_Library2020/paper/view/22202}_{(in Russian)}

_{Shytikova,
T. M. & Bondarenko, O. O. (2020).}_{Improving
the quality of education: the contribution of the university library}_._{University
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dopovidei V mizhnarodnoi naukovo-praktychnoi konferentsii, 8-9
zhovtnia 2020, Dnipro.}_{Retrieved from}_{http://conflib.diit.edu.ua/Conf_univ_Library2020/paper/view/22179/11378}_{(in Ukra}_i_nian)

_{Yunakovska,
V. V., & Matveyeva, O. V. (2020).}_{Internet
resources for self-education and advanced training}_._{University
library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development: Tezy
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zhovtnia 2020, Dnipro.}_{Retrieved from}_{http://conflib.diit.edu.ua/Conf_univ_Library2020/paper/view/22180/11379}_{(in Ukra}_i_nian)

_{Науково-технічна
бібліотека, Дніпровський національний
університет залізничного транспорту
імені академіка В. Лазаряна (Дніпро,
Україна),}

_{ІНТЕРНЕТ-РЕСУРСИ
ДЛЯ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ КВАЛІФІКАЦІЇ, НАУКОВОЇ,
НАВЧАЛЬНОЇ ТА ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ}

_{_Мета_._{Стаття
має на меті ознайомити з онлайн-ресурсами,
які будуть корисними бібліотекарям,
науковцям, викладачам, студентам.}_{Методика.}_{Огляд онлайн-ресурсів для дистанційного
навчання, підвищення кваліфікації,
наукової, навчальної та професійної
діяльності.}_{Результати.}_{Надано
опис та характеристика інтернет-ресурсів
для наукової, навчальної та професійної
діяльності.}_{Висновки.}_{Дистанційне
навчання – важлива складова безперервного
професійного розвитку, зручний сучасний
формат професійного вдосконалення.
Переваги дистанційної форми навчання
– це можливість навчатись у зручний
для себе час та будь-якому місці.
Застосування в своїй діяльності сучасних
інтернет-інструментів (в т. ч.
ідентифікаторів авторів) відкриває
нові можливості.}}

_{_{Ключові
слова:}_{інтернет-ресурси;
онлайн-ресурси; підвищення кваліфікації;
дистанційне навчання; дистанційні курси}}

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© O. V. Matveyeva, T.
M. Shytikova,
V.
V. Yunakovska, О. V. Voitovych,
2021}}

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