Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, INION RAN is a major center for research in social studies and humanities. The research center was created in 1969 as a successor to the Russian Academy's Fundamental Library of Social Sciences, which was established in 1918. History The information center is known in the Russian and international scientific community for its abstract periodicals, bibliographies, and analytical reports, and for its Fundamental research library holding over 14 million items. The INION maintains and expands its contacts with foreign scientific research and library centers in various countries, including Germany, France, U.S.A., India, and Chinese People's Republic. Cooperation is maintained on a bilateral basis, as well as within the framework of international projects. The INION's main structural units are centers that are involved in the scientific information, research, bibliography, library activities aimed at developing the social sciences and humanities. Structure