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1961—1992 — Materials of the Commission for the Geological Study of the USSR.
1965—1973 — Biographies and bibliographies of scientists in the form of bibliographic dictionaries, edited for the first 7 issues by V. V. Tikhomirov.
In 1991, the Department for the history of geology moved to the newly established Vernadsky State Geological Museum.
Data collection began using Microsoft Access; by 2007, brief information on 1,700 scientists whose works were significant for the development of Earth sciences had been entered. The system was then planned to be integrated into the standard software complex "Scientific Institute of the RAS", in cooperation with the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the RAS.
In 2008, the history of geology group began work under the Program of the RAS Presidium — the Electronic Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia", which united information resources of scientific institutes, archives, and libraries of the RAS. The library hosted publications of naturalists and geologists (up to 1945), their biographical essays, and portraits. A section "Natural History Collections" was created with descriptions of museum items from historical and monographic collections related to scientists. Therefore, the modern information system is integrated (links to scientific works, information about authors, etc.) with the "Scientific Heritage of Russia" electronic library.
Research on the topic of the Information System "History of Geology and Mining" began in 2010. Under modern conditions, processing the accumulated materials was only possible using information technology, and to maximize cooperation with the scientific community, it was decided to place it on the Internet. The Department of the History of Geology, together with the Library for Natural Sciences of the RAS (BEN RAS), began developing a new Internet resource — the information system "History of Geology and Mining". Since 2011, the system began to be populated with lists of scientific works and literature about scientists. Priority was given to full members, corresponding members, and foreign members (professors, extraordinary and ordinary academicians) of the national academy, which changed its name over time:
Since May 2015, following the return of the research unit "Group of the History of Geology" to the Geological Institute RAS (GI RAS), the Information System came under the management of GI RAS and BEN RAS. From 2015 to 2018, the scientific work of populating the system was a planned research topic for fundamental research at GI RAS — "History of Major Achievements in Geology and Mining Sciences: Information System 'History of Geology and Mining'".
In 2019, the information system moved to the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (higeo.ginras.ru), featuring over 900 scientists. The database volume is about 2 gigabytes. Registered with Rospatent: authors — I. G. Malakhova and I. P. Vtorov, rights holder — Geological Institute RAS.
The number of scientist profiles with their bibliographies presented in the Information System is constantly increasing: 2021 — 1200; 2024 — 1700; 2026 — over 1900 geologists.
Since 2017, the Information System has been used by 5th-year students of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University in the History of Geology course.

== See also ==
Bibliography
Information system
History of geology

== References ==

== Literature ==
Yakshin M. M. Novy'e vozmozhnosti programmnogo kompleksa «SciRus» [New Capabilities of the "SciRus" Software Complex] // Informacionnoe obespechenie nauki: Novy'e texnologii. Presentation, 2013.
Yakshin M. M. Razvitie platformy' SciRus [Development of the SciRus Platform] // Informacionnoe obespechenie nauki: Novy'e texnologii. M.: BEN RAN, 2015. P. 203–207.
Kalenov N. E., Malakhova I. G. Informacionnaya sistema «Istoriya geologii i gornogo dela» kak primer integracii raznorodny'x resursov [Information System "History of Geology and Mining" as an Example of Integration of Heterogeneous Resources] // Informacionnoe obespechenie nauki: novy'e texnologii. Ekaterinburg: CNB UrO RAN, 2017. P. 125–131.
Vtorov I. P. The Information System «History of Geology and Mining» as a scientific tool for historians of Earth sciences // IOP Publishing: Earth and Environmental Science. 2019. Vol. 350. 012020. DOI 10.1088/1755-1315/350/1/012020
Malakhova I. G., Vtorov I. P. Informacionnaya sistema «Istoriya geologii i gornogo dela» kak e'lement edinogo cifrovogo prostranstva nauchny'x znanij v oblasti istorii nauki [Information System "History of Geology and Mining" as an Element of the Unified Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge in the Field of History of Science] // Edinoe cifrovoe prostranstvo nauchny'x znanij: problemy' i resheniya [Unified Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge: Problems and Solutions]. Moscow: Direkt-Media, 2021. P. 186–198.
Malakhova I.G., Vtorov I.P, Kirillov S.A. The History of Geosciences as the Resource for the Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge of the Russian Academy of Sciences // CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Vol. 2990. 2021. P. 50–61.
Rogov M. A. Osnovy' raboty' s nauchnoj informaciej v seti Internet dlya geologov i biologov / Otv. red. N. B. Kuznecov. M.: GIN RAN, 2022. (Trudy' Geologicheskogo instituta RAN; Vyp. 633). [Fundamentals of Working with Scientific Information on the Internet for Geologists and Biologists / Ed. by N. B. Kuznetsov. M.: GI RAS, 2022. (Proceedings of the Geological Institute RAS; Iss. 633).]

== External links ==
http://higeo.ginras.ru and updated version at https://higeo.ru — Information System "History of Geology and Mining".
Rospatent Registration — No. 2019622087 from November 15, 2019, Bulletin No. 11.
Group of the History of Geology on the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences website.
Information Systems of Scientific Institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the RAS website.