Full-Text Archive of Acoustics Journal on the Internet (http://www.akzh.ru). First Five Years’ Experience

Abstract

The project of converting the Acoustics Journal archive into electronic form was launched in January 2012. The Internet archive was posted in June. The process of preparing the archive and the timeliness of the project are described. Statistical information at the beginning of 2017 is provided: the number of visits to the site by country and administrative district of the Russian Federation, the number of articles in the journal, the number of authors and their publication activity, and a list of authors of the journal with a citation index of more than 1000. Attention is drawn to the high quality of sites of several leading journals (Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, journals of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS, and journals of the Siberian Branch of the RAS). The electronic form of scientific information and its availability allows, not only storing and disseminating of information, but also increasing the efficiency of its use.