Buryatia Scientific Book Publishing in 2017–2021

The purpose of the article is to consider the state of scientific book publishing in Buryatia in 2017– 2021 for to determine the basic directions of its development when compared with the previous period, characteristics of specious diversity presented in the scientific book publishing’ repertoire and to expose basic publishing houses engaged in the release. The work contains a historiographical analysis of publications devoted to the studied problem on the example of Siberia and the Far East, including the national republics of the region: Tyva, Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia. Statistical data on the release of various types of documents related to scientific publications (monographs, collections of scientific papers, conference materials, abstracts and abstracts of dissertations) are presented. They reflect the dynamics of books issuing by publishing houses of higher educational institutions of the republic, including the D. Banzarov Buryat State University, the East Siberian State University of Technology and Management, the V.R. Filippov Buryat State Agricultural Academy, the East Siberian Institute of Culture, the publishing house of the Buryat Scientific Center of SB RAS, other state and commercial publishing organizations of the republic (“Belig”, “NovaPrint”, “IP Balzhinimaev AB”). The author notes that publishing houses of universities and scientific organizations annually demonstrate high rates of scientific publications. Their publishing repertoire includes various types of works, most of which are monographs, conference materials and dissertation abstracts. At the same time, collections of scientific papers are practically not represented in the documentary stream of publications, and abstracts are completely absent. The peak of scientific publications was in 2018, when 102 publications came out of print. In the subsequent period, we state a decrease in the number of books published.