THE ROLE OF BILINGUAL SKILLS FOR FORMULATING RETRIEVAL REQUEST WHILE SEARCHING FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
At present the access to scientific literature becomes an important factor in the process of knowledge spreading. High price of scientific publications set by private publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley etc.) makes academic users exploit the potential of free access to scientific publications. The paper estimates ac-cess to scientific information for academic users in the internet and factual usage of commercial electronic sources. Methods of information search used by teachers and graduate students are analyzed. Various skills (technical, bilingual, etc.) that aid relevant search of multilingual information among academic users are dis-cussed. The research proves that skills of simultaneous bilingual search are useful and necessary for optimi-zation of access to scientific information.