Abstract
The article addresses key functional database (DB) requirements for the effective storage, arrangement and analysis of scientific publications. Based upon the materials analyzed over the 30-year period of scientific activities of the Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology and considering users’ interests, requirements for the functionality and structure of a database have been defined. As a result, a database was designed and developed using tools and technologies that ensured a secure interaction between a user and a server. The user interface created provides convenient tools for working with data. DB was found to be an efficient tool to analyze data since it has a wide range of functions enabling to carry out a variety of analyses: a possibility to retrieve data pursuant to specified criteria, sort it out by different parameters and select followed by the analysis. Thanks to these functions, users are able to carry out analytical activities efficiently, reveal regularities, tendencies and interrelations in data, which makes DB an indispensable tool in research and decision-making.