Formation and Development of Comfortable Information Environment of Science at the University: Impact of the Library

The main activities of the Scientific Library of Belarusian National Technical University (ВNTU) aimed at the formation and development of a comfortable information environment for the University’s academic activities are described, including: organizing of redundancyof content and relative limitation of volume in the presented documentary flow, organizing of assistance in creating documents and promoting them to the “intellectual market”. Among the concrete forms of activities there are selection of serial publications for reading and submission of articles; development of the journals published by BNTU; creation and maintenance of open access resources; advisory work on registration in various systems of identification ofauthor profiles; various bibliometric studies. The issue of the coincidence of the implementationof the principles of “open science” with the conditions for the formation of a comfortable information environment of science is touched upon.