Journals on Nanotechnologies in the System of Scientific Periodicals in Russia

This paper presents the analysis of domestic journals on nanotechnologies for 1998-2011. Data collection was performed using the Google. ru search system on the internet sites of the leading Russian libraries: the Russian State Library (RSL), State Public Scientific Technical Library of Russia (SPSTL), eLIBRARY. RU, OJSC Rospechat' and Periodicals. com, as well as Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication. The following parameters are analyzed: the title of a journal, the first year of publication, a publishing organization, subject sphere, and the periodicity of publication. The goal of the research is to determine the appearance, development, and modern state of the journal system on nanotechnologies as a new discipline in Russia.