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The article analyzes the basic provisions of the draft federal law "On science, technology and innovation activities in the Russian Federation" related to research and innovation infrastructure. The author presents a comparative analysis of the draft law and the norms of the current federal legislation and other normative acts regulating research and innovation infrastructure. The main methods of the research are comparative, technical, analytical and descriptive. In comparison with the current laws, the draft law gives a fuller description of the research infrastructure, in particular, the definitions of its main objects and components (research equipment, scientific collection, unique scientific installation, core facility, megascience installation, fund to support science, etc.). However, there is still no systematic approach to the issue: the draft law doesn't contain neither the definitions of the research infrastructure and its structural features, nor the precise formulation of the relationship between research and innovation infrastructure. All these gaps don't allow obtaining a single interpretation of the research infrastructure, and is a significant disadvantage of the bill. In its further development, the author also recommends taking into account the foreign experience, especially in regulating scientific collections. For example, it is necessary to consider enshrining scientific collections as bioresource centers to provide an opportunity for their subsequent integration with international databases. The article considers the novel about the core facility as an independent legal entity. In addition, the need for creation of the Registry of core shared research facilities, which is stated in the bill, is questionable, given that the web-portal "Research infrastructure of the Russian Federation" (http://ckp-rf.ru) has been successfully operating since 2011. The latest contains information not only about the core facilities, but also unique scientific installations, as well as the results of their ...

Introduction. Natural science collections play a prominent role in the study of nature and species evolution, conservation of biological resources of the planet, ensuring nation's food security and solving fundamental and applied problems in the various sciences. The increasing role of collections determines the need for effective management of collection funds, safe and reliable storage of samples and information about them meeting the world-class standards, enhancing accessibility to original samples and digitized databases. Nonetheless the legal status of collections negatively affects the availability of public funding allocated to scientific infrastructure. Underfunding of natural science collections is the challenge of global relevance. But the situation of Russian scientific collections is compounded by the fact that the current legislation regulating research infrastructure considers only two types of objects (core facilities and large-scale research facilities). Since scientific collections do not belong to any of these categories, they are not eligible for government funded support of research infrastructure. To organize earmarked financing of natural science collections government spending agencies need criteria for their valuation. The aim of this paper is to analyze the applicability in the Russian Federation of the system for the valuation of natural science collections implemented in the Netherlands and to propose recommendations for its further development. Methods. The study is based on the results of monitoring of Russian core research facilities and large-scale research facilities and on the analysis of international experience of evaluation of natural science collections. Results and Discussion. In the discussed method for natural science collections evaluation, all collection items are divided into 4 groups according to significance level - from A to D. The advantages of the method include the possibility of obtaining a generalized collections ranking index based on their size and ...