Archival Electronic Information Resources as a Source of Historical Information

The purpose of the article is a comprehensive analysis of electronic information resources as an important component of the source base of modern history and the object of archival storage in Ukraine, studying their essence and role in the system of information support for research practices of specialists in various fields of knowledge. The methodological basis of scientific work consists of general scientific principles of historicism, integrity, objectivity and comprehensiveness, systematic and interdisciplinary approaches. The research is based on heuristic methods of scientific search, methods of analysis and syntheses, classification and systematization of selected materials, their analytical and synthetic criticism. Scientific novelty. The problem of web-resources as a historical proof is now increasingly raised in the domestic and foreign scientific discourse. However, the phenomenon of archival electronic information resources of historical information has not been the subject of a separate study and is being studied in this article for the first time. Conclusions. The essence of archival electronic information resources as new objects of retrospective information is described, their types and structure are considered. The place of archival electronic information resources among the other types of historical evidence is analyzed on the example of the fund documents of the CSEA of Ukraine. The author considers them as multimedia documents in electronic form which are part of the cultural and scientific heritage of the electronic age society, focusing on the need to ensure the preservation of this type of potential historical sources and the difficulties of their completing into archives. Based on the today's reality, the need for the further study of the problem raised in the article is proved.