Search systems as a tool of socio-communicative structures of society

Abstract

The article analyses search engines as tools of social communication and searches for scientific information, presents a list of the newest national and world search engines, databases, repositories. An assessment of the newest field of social communication, such as digital humanities. The purpose of the article is to evaluate modern search engines as a means of obtaining scientific information, social communication of scientists, to review and evaluate the latest means of search engine optimization. The object of the study is Internet communication. The subject of research is search engines and databases of scientific information. Nowadays search engines, as a means of finding information, have now become an important element of social communication for scientists in the world. Thematic search engines, databases of scientific articles, and thematic repositories play an important role in storing information and providing information on both scientific articles and scientists in general. Global developments are currently not far behind and domestic developments are among them. The following search engines are considered: Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed, JSTOR, Web of Science, Science. gov, CiteSeerx, Scopus, Prometheus, Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI), Philosophy Documentation Center, Publons. The Ukrainian public project of mass open online courses Prometheus and the National Repository of Academic Texts deserve special attention. In addition, the relevance of search results remains an important issue for the search for information and social communication for scientists. The most important algorithms used by search engines today, as well as promising directions for the future are considered. In this aspect, digital humanities, which integrate the methodologies of traditional humanities (history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archeology, music, etc.) with computer sciences, are beginning to play an important role today.

Keywords

• search engines
• internet communication
• databases
• repositories
• digital humanities