In this supplement it is shown that the dependences of the number of path lengths between vertices in the graph (between reviewers) and the number of connections of reviewers for the last few years that were discussed in Bolshakov’s article “On relations in science: the case of the scientific journal editorial board” are subordinate to the known statistical distributions. These data may allow us to draw a conclusion about the scientific journal editorial board’s functioning.

See the article: Bolshakov D.Yu. On relations in science: the case of the scientific journal editorial board. Scholarly Research and Information. 2021;4(1–2):19–28. https://doi.org/10.24108/2658-3143-2021-4-1-2-19-28

The article deals with some issues of personal data processing and management in Russian libraries interactions with licensed resources providers. The author analyzes international practice on the libraries’ way to establishing main principles of personal data privacy and security: minimal data transfer and informed patron’s agreement on personal data processing. List of principles set up by “NISO consensus principles on users’ digital privacy in library, publisher, and software-provider systems” are analyzed as well as American Library Association documents. Specific problems of personal data transfer from Russian electronic library systems providers to libraries are analyzed and some solutions are suggested.

The work reports implementation of the “COVID-19.rf: information against the pandemic” project.

Since 2020, dozens of projects have been implemented to create collections of national COVID-19 publications and populate national COVID-repository platforms.

The Russian project “COVID-19.rf: information against the pandemic” is among them. The following tasks were realized during the development of the COVID-19.rf repository: the program software to create and populate the project platform; automated data exchange with previously created Russian platforms; monitoring global citation indexes: Web of Science, Scopus, Dimensions and the Lens and automatic population of the created platform: possibility for access and downloading the project data via API under the OAI PMH protocol; project advancement and user training; indexing of the project content on the international integrator platforms: CORE, OpenAire: COVID-19 Open Research Gateway and Google Academy.

As a result, algorithms and technical implementation of automatically replenishing of repositories within the legal framework of publishers’ license have been developed.

By the beginning of 2022, metadata about 7380 Russian COVID publications were uploaded to the project platform, 3923 articles being in full text. These indicators put the Russian project on a par with the largest national projects such as of the Great Britain, Spain and Brazil.