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The phenomenon of documents

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In view of the different opinions of documentologists about documents we believe that the debate about this entity is not over yet. The document is a unique social phenomenon that deserves separate in-depth study. Attempts to combine it with the book in one object of scientific knowledge have not yet been successful: they have not been theoretically substantiated and practically justified. The purpose of this paper is to show the differences between the book and the document as different social phenomena.

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Original Russian Text © G.A. Dvoenosova, 2015, published in Nauchno-Technicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 1, 2015, No. 6, pp. 1–8.

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Dvoenosova, G.A. The phenomenon of documents. Sci. Tech.Inf. Proc. 42, 85–92 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688215020112

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