English language metadata of Belarusian academic periodicals on agricultural topics: analysis of information about the authors

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of English language metadata of 18 Belarusian academic periodicals on agricultural topics, including the following information about the authors: last name, first name, patronymic; individual identifier; email; academic degrees and titles; affiliation, positions, postal address of the organization. As a result of the study, the problem of unification of the English language information about the authors both between the periodicals and within them was discovered. Some disagreements were connected with formatting, for example, the order and use of abbreviations when indicating the last name, first name and patronymic of the authors. Other disagreements were related to the translation of the metadata from Russian into English. The translation of academic degrees of the authors of publications caused the greatest disagreements. The participation of scientific libraries in solving this problem was proposed through the organization of interaction between authors, editors and library and information specialists on the issues of preparation of the English language metadata of publications, including information about the authors.

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