Participation in the international sectoral information system AGRIS as a factor of agricultural journal improving

The article is devoted to the activities of the national AGRIS Center of the Russian Federation, which has been operating at the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL) since 2007. The Center has been providing a significant part of Russian scientific publications on agricultural subjects into the international AGRIS system coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). CSAL experience in selecting, peer review, and preparing metadata for publication in AGRIS is summarized. 
It is based on the analysis of more than 17 thousand bibliographic records prepared for the period 2007–2024, as well as the practice of interacting with the editorial offices of more than 150 Russian agricultural scientific journals. Special attention is paid to composing high-quality abstracts and correct translating metadata into English, which is critically important for the international visibility of Russian agricultural science. The current system of interaction between the editorial offices of the journal and the AGRIS Center is described. Typical mistakes made during the preparation of abstracts and the term translations are discussed, and recommendations for their elimination are suggested. The challenges associated with the automation of metadata collection, including the risks of losing information about the national origin of publications and worsening the quality of records, are considered as a special issue. In conclusion, it is emphasized that it is necessary to maintain manual expert refinement of key metadata elements and further develop methodological support for editorial offices. It is noted that the quality of Russian agricultural journals is significantly approached to the international standards that is achieved due to cooperation with the AGRIS Center among other reasons.

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