After 25 years since the creation of the IT Department, on March 24, 2022, the IT Department was reorganized into the Center for Information Resources, Technologies and Publishing.
The scaling of the information infrastructure of the Institute was provided for by the Development Concept of the IO RAS and the order of the Deputy Ministry of Education and Science (No. MN-19 / 275-AN dated March 11, 2022) to organize closer interaction with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. By order of the director of March 24, 2022 No. 42a, the Information Technology Department of the Institute of Oceanology was reorganized into the Center for Information Resources, Technologies and Publishing.
The Center for Information Resources, Technologies and Publishing (IT Center) is today the main scientific and auxiliary unit of the Institute of Oceanology, whose activities are aimed at supporting and maintaining the scientific activities of the entire staff of the Institute, which is in line with the Strategy for the Digital Transformation of the Science and Higher Education Industry of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation – about the methodological center of information support of scientific activity.
The structure of the IT Center includes two Departments and the Publishing House of the Institute of Oceanology.
Information Technology Department consisting of:
- The network support service ensures the functioning and round-the-clock monitoring of the computer network of the Institute 24/7/365 days a year;
- The information systems support service performs software and technical support for administrative and business services, network applications and specialized programs of scientific laboratories, ensures the implementation of operational events in the conference rooms and classrooms of the institute.
Information and Computing Resources Department consisting of:
- Service of system and applied programming, develops local and distributed databases, software and hardware systems, monitoring information systems, maintains system software for computing and cluster systems;
- The Routing and Cybersecurity Service manages distributed networks, routes the network resources of the corporate network, and ensures the information security of the Institute's network resources.
Publishing house of the Institute of Oceanology as part of the editors:
- Editorial Board of the scientific journal "Oceanological Research" - carries out selection, literary editing and design of printed and electronic publications, provides prepress, develops layouts for printed publications, performs typesetting, layout and editing of manuscripts for printed and electronic publications, organizes reviewing of manuscripts and the entire publishing process of scientific papers of the Institute, carries out the information content of the official website of the journal www.jor.ocean.ru. The order of functioning of the Editorial Board of the journal is defined in the Regulations on the Scientific Journal and in the Regulations on Publication Ethics. The procedure for reviewing is in the Regulations on Reviewing.
- The editorial office of the official website OCEAN.RU collects information about the activities of the Institute, edits and processes incoming photos, videos and text materials, their prompt publication in Russian and English on the portal, social networks and external information resources; is responsible for the current state and development of the portal sites, provides representation of the Institute in information and analytical systems built on the basis of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) data. The procedure for posting and publishing information on the official website of the Institute is given in the Regulations.
The main tasks of the IT Center
- Development and support of information resources and systems of information technology and telecommunications support for the activities of the Institute.
- Ensuring the functioning of corporate resources, monitoring the use of information and telecommunication systems of the Institute.
- Ensuring the current functioning together with the MSC RAS and integration with the National Research Computer Network of the new generation (NRCN), created in 2019 as a result of the integration of industry telecommunications networks in the sphere of higher education and science in Russia RUNNet and RASNet.
- Acceptance for storage of received experimental and scientific data of the IO RAS from scientific expeditions, information of general use, which is the result of the activities of various departments, automation of the processes of loading this information into accessible and up-to-date databases and keeping it up to date.
- Ensuring the cybersecurity of the corporate network and information resources of the Institute, protection against unauthorized access attempts, as well as software and mathematical influences of users of information systems connected to international information channels, including the Internet.
- Assistance in the implementation of research and development of information technology systems for collecting, processing and transmitting information, databases for collecting, storing and sampling arrays of oceanological data through telecommunication networks.
- Assistance in the implementation of a unified information system for accounting for scientific activities, an electronic document management system (EDMS) of the Institute, which includes branches and divisions of the IO RAS, to ensure the scientific process and reflect official information and rating indicators on the activities of the IO RAS on the Internet.
- Organization and maintenance of control over the activities of units and responsible persons on IT issues in the branches and bases of the fleet.
- Assistance in the implementation, maintenance and technical support of the supercomputer cluster of the Institute.
- Organization, management and technical support of the editorial and publishing activities of the IO RAS.
- Assistance in the implementation, support and technical support of the scientometric activities of the Institute.
- Technical formation of anti-terrorist security systems of the Institute and its branches.
