The Concept of Information Resources and Other Components of the Theory of Information-Resource Science

This paper continues the description of the development of the problems in the new scientific field of Information-resource science, sums up the development of modern organizational methodical and technological scientific research, and considers the theoretical aspects of the study of new phenomena: the creation of scientific definitions; identification of the essence, properties, and functions of information resources; definition of the metasystem of their functioning; and the establishment of the forms of relationships between information resources and major concepts of related sciences. The inevitability of the transition from classical rationality to non-classical and post-classical rationalities is predicted.