Regina Akhremchik
The Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus: The Personalities
The article goes on with the story about the presidents of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, outstanding figures of science, and their contribution to establishing the main scientific organization of the country.

Anna Shirokanova, Anatoli Rubanov
New forms of Scientific Communication and Collaboration in the World and in Belarus
There is given an analysis of the scientific communication of the Internet age. It was stated that new forms of communication mean fast spreading of information between communities, however the research networks established continues the practice of private communication.

Irina Bogdanova
Scientific communications in the on-line space
The article deals with the electronic scientific communications. There are considered their current infrastructure, as well as being evaluated the significance of their diversity for the scholars’ work. There have been emphasized also the forms and technologies of scientific interaction in the on-line space.

Elena Mirskaya
ICT influence on the research teams activity
The article considers the assimilation ICT process in the Russian academic community and the correlating dynamics of the professional activity and efficiency of scholars indicators.

Olga Kievlyakis
The library in the age of e-technoligies
It is the talk with the director of the National library of Belarus Roman Motulskiy about the Belarusian libraries being integrated to the global information space.

Sergey Aneychik
Belarusian academic network
There is given the information about the stages of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus computer network BASNET development, which was created for the purpose of the data exchange between the research institutions and groups.

Oksana Sivurova, Rita Berzin
Belarus Agricultural Library in the systemof information and communication technologies of the agrarian sector
The article considers the role of personal web-pages of scientists in the system of information communications and analyses the experience of the State Institution «I.S. Lupinovich Belarus Agricultural Library» of the NAS Belarus in their creation and support within the frames of the international research and information project AgroWeb Belarus.

Pavel Solovyov
Research institution site as a complex communicative product
The article considers the research institutions sites as a complex communicative product, gives their comparative analysis, shows their operation effectiveness and communicative potential factors.

Valery Baynev
Fundamental principles of the Customs Union and Common Economic Space industrial complex innovation development
It is shown in the article that giving up the domestic competition in favour of cooperation and vertical integration of industries and capitals of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan can be the only way to provide their global competitiveness in the world market.

Vladimir Goncharov
Ergonomic examination of the innovation programmes
Theoretical and methodological issues of the innovation programmes ergonomic examination haven’t got due coverage in literature. In this article there has been made an attempt to meet a lack as to the infobase formation, which should be a ground for the analysis of the ergonomic demands realized in the innovation programmes.

Henry Amaegberi
Consulting and management companies as factors of innovative agribusiness development in Nigeria
The article considers the role and importance of the information and consulting agencies and management companies for the innovation development of farming in Nigeria. The innovations which could help to solve the actual problem of the agrobusiness ineffectiveness have been suggested.

Denis Moroz
Creative fiber of science
In his interview the senior researcher of the Scientific and Practical Centre for Materials Technology Alexey Trukhanov talks about the way to science, start-up projects and problems facing the young researchers.

Irina Emelyanovich
System analysis used to choose the optimal solution
It is the talk with Petr Baltrukovich, the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technologies, about the functions fulfilled by the Belarusian Institute for System Analysis, state registration of the works fulfilled procedure, assistance to the innovative researchers, cooperation with the higher educational and research institutions, industrial enterprises.

Tatiana Belyatskaya, Maria Kudreiko
ICT clusters – the driving force of intellectualization and electronization of the economy
The article gives the analysis of the information and communicative clusters advantages, which may give particular opportunities for the industrial enterprises to control the markets.

Olga Oleks
Professional and qualification education structure in the Republic of Belarus
There have been revealed the reasons and patterns of the single professional and qualification education structure embracing all the stages, levels and types; defined the normative and theoretical grounds for professions classification; analysed the results of the professions and qualifications system design.

Alesya Kasyan
The best dissertations of the year
The article gives a review of the candidate dissertations marked by the diplomas of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus according to the results of the annual competition for the best dissertation of the year.

Mikhail Motyl, Igor Garanovich
The golden rod diversity in Belarus and biorational methods of its invasive spreading containment
There is given an analysis of the golden rod species diversity in Belarus, defined the herbicides composition to destroy its invasive populations, shown the availability of the biorational methods of fighting it.

Ilya Levyash
Humanism and formation of metaknowledge about the man
Humanism as ever open problem of epistemology (a scientific theory of knowledge) and social practice, is being considered in the article as critical review of the meaningful term “man-measure” of the human activity, which is introduced as an innovation to the modern post-non-classical knowledge, claiming to have a paradigm status. It is shown that man-measure and its particular historical measure are conditioned by the creative ability for generating and increasing the intellectual capital, mostly of science and education. It is underlined that synthesis of knowledge, belief and wisdom could ensure the transformation of abstract humanism to practical one.