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Information possibilities of the National bank of ukraine web-site in research of the history problems of monetary circullation in Ukraine

Oleksiy Shevchuk
Retrieved from Volume 4, No. 2, 2019 Pages 320–335
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The article is devoted to the research of information opportunities of the National Bank of Ukraine’s website in the history of monetary circulation study in Ukraine (1992-2019). The development of science and technology in the modern world, especially the shuffling of information to digital technologies, requires researchers to make some changes in the research methods. Until a few decades ago, scientists referred to the main numismatic and bonistic sources ‒ namely, individual banknotes (metal, ceramic and paper), fixation of places of monetary finds (coins, bonds), materials and instruments of monetary production, and also the weights in numismatics. Such sources as archival materials, legal sources, memoirs, epistolary heritage, and periodic publications have been traditionally referred to the secondary sources. However, the total informatization of the public administration and society has as the consequence that WEB resources become a significant source for historical research, including numismatic and bonistic ones. And exactly on these resources contains both primary and secondary sources of monetary history. We have analyzed the correspondence of the National Bank of Ukraine website www.bank.gov.ua to the directions of public policy, which were proclaimed in 2019, among them: digitization, data openness and others. Thus, in the author’s opinion, the site is quite user-friendly: it has a favicon (graphic logo), there was applied the same type of design for all the pages with mostly white and green tones and it has an English translation. The new version of the NBU site, which was developed in 2019, is more adequately displayed on smartphones and tablets. There is also a viewing version specifically for the visually impaired people. It has been proved that the NBU website has the considerable informational potential for researchers of the history of money circulation in Ukraine (1992-2019). The site presents the main source of numismatic and bonistic researches ‒ the coins and banknotes of the National Bank of Ukraine; in particular, the site provides researchers with qualitative images of the main types and their description. Some interest for researchers, especially in the initial stages of scientific research, has another material, such as statistical information, explanations of the National Bank of Ukraine about cash circulation, banknote exchange, and others

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Shevchuk, O. (2019). Information possibilities of the National bank of ukraine web-site in research of the history problems of monetary circullation in Ukraine. Society. Document. Communication, 4(2), 320-335.