DO RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS USE MODERN TECHNOLOGIES OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS?
Web technologies and social networks have changed the system of scientific communications qualitatively. How successful are Russian scientists using them? This study consists of two parts. Firstly, personal websites (if any) of all academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences were studied. Secondly, the degree of penetration of the social network ResearchGate into Russian scientific organizations was analyzed. It turned out that about half of outstanding scientists have their own personal website in Russian, but more than 90 % of them do not have a site in English. Also, more than 90 % of scientists do not place links to the full texts of articles on their websites and are not registered in ResearchGate.