Bibliographic Database As a Tool for the Scientific Approach to the Solution of a Task of Socio-Economic Development: the Example of River Tourism

Bibliographic databases can be an important tool in the solution of a task of socio-economic development and are necessary to the collection and systematization of large amounts of heterogeneous information. The efficiency of such tools for the development of river tourism in Russia is here considered. Using search engine of the Nauchnaya Elektronnaya Biblioteka (Scientific Electronic Library), it is established that a large number of thematically relevant works have been published over the past 5 years. Attention is paid to river tourism in the Volga River basin and to the river systems of the other territories. The sources analyzed are assigned to twelve themes and are grouped into three clusters. The interpretation of the results shows that the bibliographic databases are important for the establishment of the scientific potential of the socio-economical tasks, as they help locate important directions for the relevant activities.